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"Marines" and "AttFromNonNative" is gone. See patch #4683

The "Marines" unit type flag and the "AttFromNonNative" unit class flag has moved to the ruleset. They get meaning from action enablers. You can now control if/when "Attack" and "Conquer Unit" can be done with respect to tile nativity/livability. You also control their help text.

Ideas:

• Have your "act from non native" flags control all attacks, caravan actions and spy actions. (Change the help text from "Attack" to "act" or something like that)
• You can give a unit the ability to attack and conquer cities from a non native tile when its owner researches a special tech.
• You can give special act from non native tile ability to certain nations (think Vikings).

New action "Heal Unit". See patch #7774

"Heal Unit" heals 25% of the target unit's hit points. It spends all the actor's remaining movement points.

You can now create medic units etc.

(edit: spends all the actor's remaining movement points, not hit points. Thanks, GriffonSpade!)

sveinung wrote:It spends all the actor's remaining hit points.

For those who didn't check the patch, he means movement points. No medics dying to heal.

Auto attack blocking unit type flags. See bug #25233

Enabling the autoattack server setting makes a unit attack other units that moves to an adjacent tile if certain conditions are met. In Freeciv 2.6 a hard coded rule prevented units with the "Nuclear" unit type flag from auto attacking. You can now decide what utype flag(s) will block a unit from auto attacking via game.ruleset's new auto_attack.will_never setting. An autoattack still won't result in a nuclear detonation.

Example: forbid both "Nuclear" and "GameLoss" units from autoattacking.

Attack_Bonus effect type: patch #7894

This effect type can be used to give attack bonus when specific player attacks. That was not possible with negative Defend_Bonus as its player requirements are about defending player.

Requirement to test calendar fragments: patch #7751

The new MinCalFrag requirement allows testing the "calendar fragment" (sub-year divisions) feature added in 2.6.

For instance, a ruleset with seasons could have less food in winter.

can 3.0 games be played yet? How? is there a compatible AI? which ruleset should I use? thanks

uncivilizedplayer wrote:can 3.0 games be played yet?

If you are Windows user, your options for development snapshot builds are in http://forum.freeciv.org/f/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=5292 and http://forum.freeciv.org/f/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=1837
Otherwise you need to build it yourself.

what ai and ruleset should one pick to play a 3.0 game?

Rulesets that are part of freeciv distribution are kept in sync with the development. Rulesets available as modpacks are only occasionally compatible with current development.