Which rulesets are good/mediocre/garbage depends on individual sense of game style. Thus highly customizable game allow to make ruleset, which fulfill your needs.marioxcc_ wrote:There is no point in making the engine very general if no mod/ruleset is good enough. A game with a hardcoded but good rules of gameplay is still a good game. A highly customizable game engine with several mediocre rulesets and graphics (like Freeciv) is still a mediocre game.
It is an opensource project, thus you have opportunity to make good ethical job adding patches discussed in this topic.marioxcc_ wrote: It is a shame that “I am a volunteer” is taken to be synonymous with “I do not take this seriously and I make mediocre and sparse contributions” in the free software community. Developing a game is no joke and if one chooses to undertake that endeavor, one ought to do it well. Being a volunteer is entirely irrelevant and not an excuse to doing a mediocre job. Only a person of despicable ethics would find money to be the sole reason to perform well, and perform poorly when money is not offered in reward.
Please submit it to https://github.com/freeciv/