#FREECIV TERRAIN FOR FREE#

So you have a bad net Food gain of 1 per turn, which means you grow to size 2 in 21 turns. Well at size 1 you have a Food cost of 2 (because your default cost is always 2x city size) and a Food income of 3 (2 from the automatically Irrigated city Plains, 1 from a Plains or Forest or Hill or whatever). It was built on a Plains and has only Plains or Forests or Hills or truly bad terrain around it. The city of Badberg is the kind of place you end up with if you try to play strict Smallpox but aren't quite dumb enough to build in an empty range of Mountains and Hills and Deserts just because your grid says to. Or even at deficit Food in which case the Settler immediately disbands.This may be hard to follow without some numbers, so let me give an example. Which means its total Food production decreases but the existence of the Settler means it has to pay the same high cost. Well remember, a city shrinks by size 1 when it produces a Settler, right? Which means it must now work 1 fewer tile. That's a pretty huge difference, the Food cost especially sometimes. Under Republic you pay 2 Food and 1 shield per turn.

So under Monarchy you pay 1 Food per turn for Settlers.

#FREECIV TERRAIN FOR FREE#

It's not quite for free actually, it just pays the shield cost. 1 Food under most primitive governments and 2 Food under Republic, Democracy, Fundamentalism (no such thing in Freeciv actually, which is another part of the problem), etc.ДЄdditionally, as Carbolic Smokeball pointed out and I also mentioned in the initial post, in practice Republic/Democracy pays even more for Settlers relative to Monarchy because Monarchy gets 3 units' support costs for free per city and Republic/Democracy gets 0. Nearly every unit in the game costs 1 shield per turn as upkeep, right? Well in both games, Settlers also cost some Food. The reason that Workers as implemented were a bad idea is upkeep costs. Players of that game have been whining at people to pretty please not play that strategy and wondering where it all went wrong ever since. The addition of Workers was a significant part of what completely broke all balance in Freeciv and turned the multiplayer metagame into an absurd and boring mirror match of Democracy Smallpox -> Celebration vs Democracy Smallpox -> Celebration with the guy who starts with more Whales winning. Imo, the way Civ 2 does it is by far the superior system. Settlers can both found new cities and build Roads and such, but Workers and Engineers can only do the Road building and terrain transforming and so on- no cities. However, in Freeciv there are Settlers (which are NEVER replaced) and Workers which are unlocked by the Pottery tech and are eventually replaced by Engineers. And they move and do everything at double speed, which actually makes them more than twice as good. Engineers also have the power to transform terrain, which is pretty great. And both of those units can found new cities and build your Roads and Irrigation and whatnot. In Civ 2 there are only Settlers which are then replaced by Engineers. Since I haven't played Centauri I'll just have to assume you're right that that's where separate worker units began. I'm far too used to the worker/settler split, but it may have originated from Centauri.

Is there any kind of separate worker unit or do settlers do double duty?

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