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Corbeau wrote: ↑Mon Sep 05, 2022 11:48 am This is easily doable through ruleset, which means you can do it yourself on your computer.

Passenger aircraft is probably necessary to fix the unrealistic behavior of paratroopers.
Refer to this thread: Realistic paratroopers

In real life, paratroopers jump out of airplanes and use their parachute to land safely on the ground. In Freeciv, paratroopers are seemingly catapulted from a city or airbase and somehow manage to land far away. This is very strange behavior for a paratrooper! Was this strange behavior initially im...

Elefant wrote: ↑Tue Sep 27, 2022 1:54 pm The base would be used for situations like Guam, where there is a major military base, for both ships and land units, but no real city to speak of.

Or like Diego Garcia, or like Akrotiri and Dhekelia.

If I remember correctly, you can transfer units to allies by sending them to a city of the ally and setting that city as the unit's home city. This would allow the purchase of units that the other player doesn't have. Which version of Freeciv are you playing? In Freeciv 2.6.2, when I send a unit in...

Maybe it should be possible to buy and rent units from allies. One way this could be done with ruleset changes would be to use the blank unit_city action. Make it so that a diplomat can, in a allied coastal city, do this action which would result in the cost of a lot of gold and the gain of a naval...

An enemy could use this method to break the naval defense: Build lots of engineers. Connect the lake to an ocean by using the engineers to selectively transform land tiles surrounding the lake into water tiles. Use 30-40 engineers for each tile, so that each transformation can be done within a singl...

There is Fortress for land units, and Airbase for air units, but there is nothing equivalent for sea units. Why not? Should there be an option to build naval bases on coastal tiles? A naval base would be useful for refueling and repairing ships, especially in regions that lack suitable locations to ...

Possibly related discussion but for Longturn: Fuel for submarines in LT50

Corbeau wrote: ↑Thu Sep 22, 2022 2:01 pm Either make peace with your neighbours so that they let your caravan pass, or conquer your way out.

Even if they let my caravan pass, I would still not be able to transport the caravan to another continent because I cannot build any ocean-going ships.

If my civilization is landlocked, how do I send my caravan or freight units to another continent? I am being disadvantaged by my lack of coastal cities, which is making it difficult to establish intercontinental trade routes. Do I have to bribe an enemy transport ship? Is that the only way? That sou...