Re: [Freeciv-Dev] (PR#39748) elephant help text

2007-11-20 Thread Daniel Markstedt

http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=39748 >

On 11/20/07, William Allen Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=39748 >
>
> Erik Johansson wrote:
> > Elephants are towering animals trained for war and powerful shock
> > troops, but have bad defense against all units.
> >
> Elephants are towering animals trained for war that are often used as
> powerful shock troops, but defend poorly against most other units.
>
> Why are these only in civ2 and not default?
>

This is an age-old balancing decision I think. Environmentalism,
Fundamentalism, Fanatics, Crusaders, and Solar Plant are also omitted
in default.

 ~Daniel



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Re: [Freeciv-Dev] (PR#39748) elephant help text

2007-11-20 Thread Erik Johansson

http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=39748 >

On Nov 20, 2007 3:03 PM, William Allen Simpson
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=39748 >
>
> Erik Johansson wrote:
> > Elephants are towering animals trained for war and powerful shock
> > troops, but have bad defense against all units.
> >
> Elephants are towering animals trained for war that are often used as
> powerful shock troops, but defend poorly against most other units.

Actually I thought of using "other" it sounds better,  but they really
are very bad at defense. (Btw pikemens doesn't have pikemen flag in
CivII, which is correct I think.)

> Why are these only in civ2 and not default?

I think they are called cirkus units in LT games because they are useless.. ;-)



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Re: [Freeciv-Dev] (PR#39748) elephant help text

2007-11-20 Thread William Allen Simpson

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Erik Johansson wrote:
> Elephants are towering animals trained for war and powerful shock
> troops, but have bad defense against all units.
> 
Elephants are towering animals trained for war that are often used as
powerful shock troops, but defend poorly against most other units.

Why are these only in civ2 and not default?



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Re: [Freeciv-Dev] (PR#39748) elephant help text

2007-11-20 Thread Erik Johansson

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On Nov 20, 2007 12:04 PM, Christian Knoke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=39748 >
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>
> > > > SVN 04 OCT 2007 2.0.99
> > > >
> > > > #: data/civ2/units.ruleset:694
> > > > msgid ""
> > > > "Elephants are towering animals trained for war, but are easily
> > > dispersed if "
> > > > "caught off guard."
> > > >
> > > > not very helpful for players
>
> > Alright, what about this one?
>
> Elephants are towering animals trained for war and powerful shock
> troops, but have a bad defence.

Elephants are towering animals trained for war and powerful shock
troops, but have bad defense against all units.


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Re: [Freeciv-Dev] (PR#39748) elephant help text

2007-11-20 Thread Christian Knoke

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> > > SVN 04 OCT 2007 2.0.99
> > >
> > > #: data/civ2/units.ruleset:694
> > > msgid ""
> > > "Elephants are towering animals trained for war, but are easily
> > dispersed if "
> > > "caught off guard."
> > >
> > > not very helpful for players

> Alright, what about this one?

Elephants are towering animals trained for war and powerful shock
troops, but have a bad defence.

Christian


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Re: [Freeciv-Dev] (PR#39748) elephant help text

2007-10-06 Thread Daniel Markstedt

http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=39748 >

On 10/4/07, Christian Knoke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=39748 >
>
>
> SVN 04 OCT 2007 2.0.99
>
> #: data/civ2/units.ruleset:694
> msgid ""
> "Elephants are towering animals trained for war, but are easily dispersed if "
> "caught off guard."
>
> not very helpful for players
>
> Christian
>

Please do suggest a better one.

 ~Daniel



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