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Yeah, these forums are annoyingly dead. I've been working on a custom ruleset, and I've got questions I want to ask and suggestions I want to make, but posting here is like screaming into the void. I have a few noob questions since I'm used to civ 5 and while freeciv looks cool, it's really confusin...

So I've been working on a fairly extensively modified custom ruleset. One of the things I wanted to fix was airlifting, because by default it's nonsensical, micromanage-y, and logistically annoying. The first part of my solution was to add cargo aircraft with the ability to carry other units, so uni...

So I just went and poked around in the spaceship code, and the way the spaceship actually works is: The "chance of success" is not your chance of getting to Alpha Centauri first. It's your chance of getting to Alpha Centauri at all . (Though if you're playing single-player, that's pretty m...

Aqueduct, {Lake, River} are easier to build than regular ones (20 Shields instead of 80), and have no upkeep (regular are 1 in civ2civ3) or tech requirement (regular need Construction).

You also don't have to rely entirely on your own science production. Send out Diplomats, establish embassies with as many other civs as you can. That lets you trade techs with the friendly ones, and at least keep track of where the hostile ones are at. AI civs that like you (and usually they either ...