If you want an easy beginning, it is better to choose the generator options 2 or 3. There are five different types of generators. This chooses the type of world and the start positions in it. There is another option which is the ‘generator’ option. This will set up a new game with you and 4 AI players. Note that this applies to Unix-like distributions, Win32 binaries are different because the server is controlled from the client.įor a game with some AI players just type ‘set aifill 5’ before typing ‘start’ at the server console. This will set up the server with only one player (you) and barbarians so that you can play a solitaire game without any AI enemies. In order to get a feel for the game, just open two terminals and type in one terminal ‘freeciv-server’ or ‘./ser’ (if you’re in the source directory), then in the other terminal type ‘freeciv-gtk2’ or ‘./civ’ and connect to the server.
#FREECIV DIPLOMACY MANUALS#
We also advise new players to read the various other manuals and guides on the Freeciv site. At least it will allow you to not fail miserably during the first few turns… It does not explain the game mechanics, but instead provides some basic strategies and describes the best ways to win against the warmongering AI players. When the French take two border cities somehow, then take another two inland cities, his AI just forms a defensive line, not bothering to strike back.This document is intended to teach first time users some basic strategies of Freeciv. Two units, a barracks, and city walls in every city, instead of the two barracks and 5-10 units he needs. He instead decides to see what the AI does to his precious plan. He practically has the game won, and can literally have it won by 1 AD. continue to expand, while building up the central citiesīy 1740 BC, he has Explosives and Engineers are connecting his cities with railroads. build Michelangelo to allow city growthġ0. develop Explosives (engineers!) to compensate for the Pyramidsĩ. expand to defensible border zones, fill in the inland ('moyo') laterĨ. meet approaching settlers with diplomats, convert the city as soon as it is built (cost: below 50, 5. build supply routes as the empire growsĤ. keep cities to size 3 or 4 to avoid having to build improvementsģ. The plan is practically failsafe, once you survive the initial stage. But if I have a city in a certain terrain configuration, and the enemy has the same thing, same population and worker distribution and everything, then both cities should take exactly the same amount of time to build a warrior unit.
Or that the enemy makes more optimal choices such as deciding to build farms first, or expanding as fast as it can, if that was the optimal strategy. Higher difficulty levels would mean the enemy has greater starting resources and you have fewer. I'm outperformed from the very start by every single AI civ even on the easiest difficulty and when I have a perfect start location and settle on my first turn.Īnd when I said earlier about Deep Blue, I didn't mean that I expect the game to actually have good enough AI to beat the human player. The cheating AI makes it simply unplayable for me. By save-scum I mean I shut down the program and start it again, loading my save file, to get a new result)
(And yes I understand that the game seems to save RNG results. The AI clearly not only cheats on production, but on combat rolls as well. And then an enemy regular warrior will wander over and slay one of my full-health regular warriors on save-scum after save-scum. I'll attack with warrior after warrior (all regulars), save-scumming to get the best possible outcome, just to kill a single non-fortified enemy regular warrior. Yeah, I also noticed that it seems like the combat mechanics are funky.
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