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, nominally building roads but not building anything, while most of the economy fields are still lacking irrigation. Yes, I noticed the AI on 2.67 couldn't work out when to irrigate a hill to get isolated "flat" plains and grasslands squares irrigated or farmed. It's not clever enough to ...

ONE feature I'd love to see is (boringly) a General Ledger listing all of your trade routes. When they were founded. How big the relevant cities were at the time. How much trade they have generated since being formed. It's such a faff trying to make sense of the visual displa of trade routes, and un...

Update - EPIC DISASTER but funny and absolutely typical for me. After much stumbling around trying to run the compiled version directly (and a few attempts at different GUI options) I gave up and tried running my existing 2.6 install. The 3.05 front end popped up and all my saves are missing. I dare...

It's OK, I think I'm getting a little further into the process now I've worked out how to add things from the shell. After putting icu.dev on the system, configure passed and the make has started. It's taking a while but seems to be going OK. :) Probably didn't need dev versions of perl or openssl b...

Ah... just tried to install the dev version of curl and it wants the dev version of openssl first. Yup, cut down distro of curl without dev bits seems the issue. I'll tinker with it a little more. EDIT: Now openssl is demanding Perl. It's already installed. The source is 3.9GB. I think I'll stop at ...

Thanks for the links. I'm running Feren, which is a curious hodge podge mix of Mint and Ubuntu, but essentially Debian flavour. And yeah, I'd messed up installing Wine. Didn't set the correct keyboard, thought the "Automatically detect" option would work for the keyboard. EDIT: Nope, remov...

I'm certain this isn't a bug in Civ 3. Having had issues compiling a Linux version, I thought I'd give V3 a whirl using the precompiled Windows version and Wine. Which works fine BUT... the keyboard short cuts don't work at all, apart from movement using the numeric keypad. I can't see people really...

Well... open source. There is any amount of scope for development when it comes to AI behaviour. Persnonally I'd like an AI that really digs how, why, when and where to use air power to full effect but I'm not going to hold my breath for it to happen. I guess you could extend that to just about all ...

I'll pass for the moment. Having too much fun with system to mess it up. And having slept on the idea, the problem with stacking up different maps vertically is that they would all have to be the same width to allow a player to scroll around from East-West. Not ideal for modelling different planets ...

Ah, I'm looking forward to the alien ruleset, but I cannot yet install V3 of Freeciv. For some weird reason it reports it can't find libcurl, even though it is installed. I suspect it might be too old for FCV3. And my LInux skills are terrible. I'm having a whale of a game on 2.67 and will get aroun...