History VideoGame / FreeCiv

* GoodPaysBetter: Running a democratic regime is a common endgame choice (the other being {{Communism}}, which allows [[VideoGameCrueltyPotential repression of the populace]] to prevent anyone from opposing your command economy and large military) [[PragmaticVillainy not because it is nicer to your citizens]], but because it [[MoneyDearBoy allows for greater income]] and most of all, it eliminates corruption meaning that there is no loss of income in cities far from the capital and [[ScrewTheMoneyIHaveRules nobody can pay your units or cities to betray you and join them]].
%%* HoneyTrap: [[DirtyCommunists Communist nations]] produce spies with an automatic extra experience level.

* TheDogBitesBack: Capture the capital of an [[AnarchyIsChaos anarchic state]], there is a 90% chance of {{civil war}}, [[DayOfTheJackboot with despotism]] it is 80%, [[TheEmpire with monarchy]] it is 70%, [[DirtyCommunists with communism]] it is 50%, [[TheRepublic with republic]] it is 40% and [[VideoGameCaringPotential with democracy]] it is 30%. The point is, the harsher your government, the more your people want independence from you once your [[DecapitatedArmy capital is lost]]. However [[HypocriticalHumour unpleasant it is to have this happen to you]], bear in mind that the same odds apply when you do [[MoralMyopia the same to your enemies]], [[ComedicSociopathy in which case it is satisfying to watch the]] {{enemy civil war}}.

* HundredPercentAdorationRating: Like in Civ, cities with very happy citizens (possible with various wonders and buildings that make discontent citizens content and increasing Luxury,boosted by caravan trade routes and various buildings, to make content citizens happy) celebrate and instantly grow irrespective of how full their granaries are.

* NukeEm: There are [[NukeEm Nuclear (missile) units]]. It may be [[InfinityPlusOneSword very expensive and require much research on the]] TechTree, but its attack [[SplashDamage destroys all units within a 3x3 radius]]. It is most often used to clear out cities containing large numbers of defending units, but becomes even more legendary when they can nuke up to 4 cities with one blast, provided you detonate the nuke between the 4 cities and those cities are all located within a 3x3 area. To discourage [[ILoveNuclearPower liberal use of nukes]], [[VideoGameCrueltyPunishment nuclear winter will start if enough of the world has been hit by nukes]]. Its only weakness is that if your enemies have SDI defense buildings or [[CoolBoat AEGIS cruisers]] near your intended detonation sites, in which case your nuclear unit is shot down and disappears into thin air.

* ClimateChange: Each time pollution worsens and global warming advances, the entire world loses coastal land for jungles and swamps, and inland squares are lost to desert. This tends to devastate cities and leads to global impoverishment. Forcing global warming [[http://freeciv.wikia.com/wiki/Global_Warming#Eco-terrorism can be used offensively against other players]].

* GlobalWarming: Each time pollution worsens and global warming advances, the entire world loses coastal land for jungles and swamps, and inland squares are lost to desert. This tends to devastate cities and leads to global impoverishment. Forcing global warming [[http://freeciv.wikia.com/wiki/Global_Warming#Eco-terrorism can be used offensively against other players]].

''Freeciv'' is a FOSS (Free / Open Source Software) implementation of the ''VideoGame/{{Civilization}}'' family of turn-based strategy games, borrowing mainly from Civs 1 and 2[[note]]with recent versions also taking influence from Civ 3[[/note]]. Several rule sets are provided allowing for different types of game behavior. In addition, because the source code to the game itself is available, a sufficiently motivated and knowledgeable person can implement changes to the game's behavior beyond anything possible merely by changing the rule set the game uses, including behavior not found in the commercial precursors to this game.

Most things involving it (including downloads) can be found at [[http://freeciv.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page its wiki]].

* EasyCommunication: As in all the Civ games, you can instantaneously order around everyone in a civilization spanning continents without any communications tech developed. ZigZagged with diplomacy though: By default you loose contact with other nations 20 turns after encountering their units/territory. Without embassies, you can't exchange tech (only sell yours).

* NukeEm: There are [[NukeEm Nuclear (missile) units]]. It may be [[InfinityPlusOneSword very expensive and require much research on the]] {{Tech Tree}} but its attack [[SplashDamage destroys all units within a 3x3 radius]]. It is most often used to clear out cities containing large numbers of defending units, but becomes even more legendary when they can nuke up to 4 cities with one blast, provided you detonate the nuke between the 4 cities and those cities are all located within a 3x3 area. To discourage [[ILoveNuclearPower liberal use of nukes]], [[VideoGameCrueltyPunishment nuclear winter will start if enough of the world has been hit by nukes]]. Its only weakness is that if your enemies have SDI defense buildings or [[CoolBoat AEGIS cruisers]] near your intended detonation sites, in which case your nuclear unit is shot down and disappears into thin air.

* HoneyTrap: [[DirtyCommunists Communist nations]] produce spies with an automatic extra experience level.
* HundredPercentAdorationRating / APartyAlsoKnownAsAnOrgy: Like in Civ, cities with very happy citizens (possible with various wonders and buildings that make discontent citizens content and increasing Luxury,boosted by caravan trade routes and various buildings, to make content citizens happy) celebrate and instantly grow irrespective of how full their granaries are.

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* TheDogBitesBack: Capture the capital of an [[AnarchyIsChaos anarchic state]], there is a 90% chance of {{civil war}}, [[DayOfTheJackboot with despotism]] it is 80%, [[TheEmpire with monarchy]] it is 70%, [[DirtyCommunists with communism]] it is 50%, [[TheRepublic with republic]] it is 40% and [[VideoGameCaringPotential with democracy]] it is 30%. The point is, the harsher your government, the more your people want independence from you once your [[DecapitatedArmy capital is lost]].
** However [[HypocriticalHumour unpleasant it is to have this happen to you]], bear in mind that the same odds apply when you do [[MoralMyopia the same to your enemies]], [[ComedicSociopathy in which case it is satisfying to watch the]] {{enemy civil war}}.

''Freeciv'' is a FOSS (Free / Open Source Software) implementation of the ''VideoGame/{{Civilization}}'' family of turn-based strategy games. Several rule sets are provided allowing for different types of game behavior. In addition, because the source code to the game itself is available, a sufficiently motivated and knowledgeable person can implement changes to the game's behavior beyond anything possible merely by changing the rule set the game uses, including behavior not found in the commercial precursors to this game.

* NukeEm: There are [[NukeEm Nuclear (missile) units]]. It may be [[InfinityPlusOneSword very expensive and require much research on the]] {{Tech Tree}} but its attack [[SplashDamage destroys all units within a 3x3 radius]]. It is most often used to clear out cities containing large numbers of defending units, but becomes even more legendary when [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome they can nuke up to 4 cities with one blast]], provided you detonate the nuke between the 4 cities and those cities are all located within a 3x3 area. To discourage [[ILoveNuclearPower liberal use of nukes]], [[VideoGameCrueltyPunishment nuclear winter will start if enough of the world has been hit by nukes]]. Its only weakness is that if your enemies have SDI defense buildings or [[CoolBoat AEGIS cruisers]] near your intended detonation sites, in which case your nuclear unit is shot down and disappears into thin air.

This is a FOSS (Free / Open Source Software) implementation of the VideoGame/{{Civilization}} family of turn-based strategy games. Several rule sets are provided allowing for different types of game behavior. In addition, because the source code to the game itself is available, a sufficiently motivated and knowledgeable person can implement changes to the game's behavior beyond anything possible merely by changing the rule set the game uses, including behavior not found in the commercial precursors to this game.

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* CorruptPolitician: [[CloakAndDagger Spies and diplomats]] can be paid to "incite a revolt" in non-allied cities as a "[[InsistentTerminology diplomatic action]]", which leads to the city becoming yours. The price depends on city size, buildings within city, wealth of the nation on the receiving end of this treatment, units in city and corruption level (cities owned by democracies have zero corruption and thus cannot be bribed).

** Each terrain has its properties: Rivers allow faster transport, but Bridge building technology is required to build roads on or across them. Hills and mountains offer extra defense and production points, but allow low mobility and low food points, which is also true for forests. Grassland has high food points but low or no production points. Wine, Silk, Gems and Gold in hills, forests, jungles and mountains respectively bring high trade but low production points, while vice versa applies in the same biomes for Coal, Pheasants, Fruits (high food instead for the previous two) and Iron. Utilizing ocean or lake squares for production, trade and food may offer less than certain land squares, but ocean and lake squares cannot be polluted or suffer nuclear fallout and thus can be constantly exploited.

** There are 6 basic types of units: {{GlassCannon cheap offensive units with very high attack but very low defense]] (e.g. archer, catapult, cannon, artillery, howitzer, submarine), [[LightningBruiser fast but expensive units with high attack and moderate to low defence]] (e.g. horseman, chariot, knight, dragoon, cavalry, armor, paratroopers, helicopter, destroyer, fighter), [[Jack of all stats expensive units with balanced attack and defense]] (e.g. alpine troops, marines, battleships, AEGIS cruisers, mechanized infantry), [[Zerg Rush cheap and weak units with balanced attack and defense]] (e.g. partisans, riflemen, warriors), [[CloakAndDagger espionage units]] (e.g. diplomat and spy) and [[SquishyWizard defenseless logistics and support units]] (e.g. trireme, caravel, galleon, transport, AWACS, workers, engineer, settler).

* EasyLogistics: Averted big time, in fact, if a unit is based in a city that can't provide for unit upkeep in production points, then units based in said city will die off until the production demands of units equals that of the city's production points. This can cause units wherever they are to simply disappear from the face of the Earth.

* NecessaryDrawback: There are five forms of government: Despotism, Monarchy, Communism, Republic and Democracy. The latter two grant additional trade resources to tiles, the former three grant a number of upkeep-free military units per city – making the former more useful for a conquest victory and the latter for a spaceship victory, while making it harder to break alliances with other players, as the senate can veto this. Despotism is what you start with and the least useful, because each tile gets Food and Production penalties. There are also various effects on citizen happiness, corruption levels, wonders, units being bribable or not and celebration/revolt likelihood. Changing the government costs the player one to five rounds of anarchy where basically no resources are gained and nothing is produced.

* BoringButPractical: The ''Adam Smith's Trading Co.'' wonder makes all basic buildings that normally cost one gold per turn upkeep-free. Might not sound like much, but free granaries, harbors, temples, banks, libraries can get you a long way and allow you to allocate more taxes for research because of how much you have to spend less on first-level buildings. Also, it never becomes obsolete.

* BoringButPractical: The ''Adam Smith's Trading Co.'' wonder makes all basic buildings that normally cost one gold per turn upkeep-free. Might not sound like much, but free granaries, harbors, temples, banks, libraries can get you a long way and allow you to allocate more taxes for research because os how much you have to spend less on first-level buildings. Also, it never becomes obsolete.

* BoringButPractical: The ''Adam Smith's Trading Co.'' wonder makes all basic buildings that normally cost one gold per turn upkeep-free. Might not sound like much, but free granaries, harbors, temples, banks, libraries can get you along way and allow you to allocate more taxes for research because os how much you have to spend less on first-level buildings. Also, it never becomes obsolete.

* ArtificialStupidity: Computer players are extremely stubborn with "their" territory - build a city on any square they consider to be "theirs," and they'll raze the city - without any diplomacy scene or change in relationship. In fact, if you then attack one of their cities, ''they'll blame you for starting the war''. They are also incapable of building trade routes (in order to boost luxury and grow their city with celebrations), at least at easy difficulty.

* EvilIsEasy: Averted. If you don't attack anyone, the AI won't attack you (at least until the endgame) Some AI players will wage war against each other and you can only ally with one party of each war. But your allies (and with wonder-created embassies in each capital all players) will happily exchange tech, pay you for tech and share maps. They don't really angry at you because of unfair trade proposals that fast either and letting them pay the maximum acceptable price for tech will turn them from friendly to neutral at first and to unfriendly quite a while later. You can reconcile relatively easily by just giving them free tech or money. They'll often ask you to join their wars, but not doing so at worst lets them cancel their alliance, and most of the time just go from friendly to neutral and forbid you from viewing their map while still ready to trade maps.

* ArtificialStupidity: Computer players are extremely stubborn with "their" territory - build a city on any square they consider to be "theirs," and they'll raze the city - without any diplomacy scene or change in relationship. In fact, if you then attack one of their cities, ''they'll blame you for starting the war''.

* EncyclopediaExposita: The in-game manual.
* EvilIsEasy: Averted. If you don't attack anyone, the AI won't attack you (at least until the endgame) Some AI players will wage war against each other and you can only ally with one party of each war. But your allies (and with wonder-created embassies in each capital all players) will happily exchange tech, pay you for tech and share maps. They don't really get angry at you because of unfair trade proposals either and letting them pay the maximum acceptable price for tech will turn them from friendly to neutral at worst. They'll often ask you to join their wars, but not doing so at worst lets them cancel their alliance, and most of the time just go from friendly to neutral while maintaining the alliance.

* ForeverWar: AI player often go to war very quickly and then fight for centuries, without either side really winning.

* GameplayAutomation: There are build lists that can be applied to new cities so that they automatically construct improvements and troops in the order desired by the player. Cities will also auto-build unless coinage is put in the build queue. Cities can auto-place citizens on tiles to prioritize Food, Production, Gold, Luxury, Science or Happiness depending on the mayor you choose. Workers, settlers and scouts can be automated as well. You can activate those automations for multiple cities at once from the cities table/tab and by selecting all units of one type
* GeoEffects: Hills and mountains give a big city defense bonus, woods as smaller one. Rivers allow units to more farther. Like in Civ, all types of terrain produce specific amounts of Food, Gold and Trade, which can be altered with terrain improvements such as irrigation, roads, farms, railroads, fortifications etc.
* GlassCannon: The game manual urges players to escort Catapults with units that can defend them.

* HundredPercentAdorationRating / APartyAlsoKnownAsAnOrgy: Like in Civ, cities with very happy citizens (possible with various wonders, buildings and Luxury) celebrate and instantly grow irrespective of how full their granaries are.

* VastBureaucracy: Represented by the Civ-derived corruption mechanic (cities lose Trade resources), depending on distance from your capital and government type (the more democratic, the less corruption) and upkeep cost for buildings.

* WorkerUnit: Workers (later engineers) and settlers

* WeWillHavePerfectHealthintheFuture: Just like in Civ I, the ''Cure For Cancer'' wonder bestows +1 happiness.

* GameplayAutomation: There are build lists that can be applied to new cities so that they automatically construct improvements and troops in the order desired by the player. Cities will also auto-build unless coinage is put in the build queue. Cities can auto-place workers on tiles to prioritize Food, Production, Gold, Luxury, Science or Happiness depending on the mayor you choose. Workers, settlers and scouts can be automated as well. You can activate those automations for multiple cities at once from the cities table/tab and by selecting all units of one type

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* GameplayAutomation: There are build lists that can be applied to new cities so that they automatically construct improvements and troops in the order desired by the player. Cities will also autobuild unless coinage is put in the build queue.