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What would you like to see in Freeciv? Do you have a good idea what should be improved or how?
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1) Is there a way to cut the probability of barbarians showing up? Twice in two turns was a bit too much.

2) Is there a way to cut the cost of building new settler units?

3) On another thread I was told that "there's Ancients ruleset that has none of the modern technologies" Where do I find it in the game?

4) Is there a way to increase the number of huts at the set up of the game?

5) Could you put the saved games in a saved folder in the game folder?

6) How can we fix it so that if we have "no contact" there's no war?
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1. Yes, check game settings at the start (barbarian appearance rate or something).
2. Yes, you'd have to edit ruleset in order to do this.
4. See 1.
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3. Ancients ruleset is custom ruleset you need to install separately. For 2.3 it's available in default list presented to you when you launch freeciv-modpack -utility. For 2.4 it's not available in the default list at the moment. You can launch freeciv-modpack with commandline option "-L http://www.cazfi.net/freeciv/modinst/2.4/modpack.list" to use my alternative modpack list where it is, or you can enter URL "http://www.cazfi.net/freeciv/modinst/2. ... -2.modpack" directly to "Modpack URL" field of freeciv-modpack to install latest version as of today.
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5. You can launch a server with the commandline option "-s (path)" to make it save games in that directory. I don't know if there's an option for the client to do that.
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heilkitty wrote:1. Yes, check game settings at the start (barbarian appearance rate or something).
Found it. The lowest I can get is either none or in the huts. I'd prefer a percentage chance.

>Is there a way to increase the number of huts at the set up of the game?

Found that in the last line under Geological--I had to scroll down to find it.
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djconklin wrote:5) Could you put the saved games in a saved folder in the game folder?
I have a simple workaround for this. Use Windows Explorer to find the folder where the Freeciv games are saved. Right click that folder and drag to the desktop. Select create a shortcut. Then double clicking the icon will open the folder that holds the saved games. :) I keep my games folder icon next to my Freeciv icon, so it is easy to open the folder to delete all the previously saved games before starting a new game.
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Jim-11 wrote:
djconklin wrote:5) Could you put the saved games in a saved folder in the game folder?
I have a simple workaround for this. Use Windows Explorer to find the folder where the Freeciv games are saved.
I tried that, no luck. So, I have no idea where the files might be.
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Another idea:

7) Clearing a forest adds some points towards the finishing of whatever is being constructed.
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for my two bits worth:
The saved games are ALL in a '.freeciv\saves' deep inside your 'documents and settings\(user-whatever your name is)\Application Data.
By ALL I mean that even if you have several versions of Freeciv, the saved games ALL go there.
It can get very big, specially if you save at every turn, so I have a short cut for that folder.
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Arbogast wrote:for my two bits worth:
The saved games are ALL in a '.freeciv\saves' deep inside your 'documents and settings\(user-whatever your name is)\Application Data.
By ALL I mean that even if you have several versions of Freeciv, the saved games ALL go there.
It can get very big, specially if you save at every turn, so I have a short cut for that folder.
I really appreciate all the help I'm getting on this--not like other games were it is absent.

In this case, I don't have document and settings folder. Could it be hidden so that even a search of the harddrive won't find it? I know that I have "temporary internet file" (or something close) folder and yet when I go to where it is supposed to be it doesn't show up. I used to see it, but I don't recall what I did to uncover it.
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