(PR#20385) Make EFT_EMPIRE_SIZE_STEP optional per-game

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Petr Baudis wrote:
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> 
>   Hi,
> 
>   this patch makes EFT_EMPIRE_SIZE_STEP optional. The
unhappiness
> induced by size step is a new addition which wasn't
present in 2.0 and
> for me personally, it significantly ruins the gameplay
- I like to build
> empires with many tens of cities and with this, that
quickly gets nearly
> unplayable without massive luxury rates or spending
plenty of money (and
> player time!) making sure a temple is built immediately
in all new
> cities.
> 
>   One solution would be to clone the ruleset and
disable
> EFT_EMPIRE_SIZE_STEP there, which is what I originally
did, but that's
> something non-hacker players can't/won't do, and it
is quite painful to
> maintain that across freeciv updates or if you want to
play over the
> network.

I'm pretty positive the empire size step was always
present.

And, wouldn't a better choice just be to set
EFT_EMPIRE_SIZE_STEP really 
large?

-jason

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Jason Dorje Short wrote on Sep 04, 18:31 (-0700):

> I'm pretty positive the empire size step was always
present.

Yes, but the happiness behaviour has changed substantially
in some way
I do not understand. See my recent question about impossible
city
rapture.

Th intention of this is good, and it should scale with city
count, but
the effect is too harsh.

Christian

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Jason Dorje Short wrote:
> I'm pretty positive the empire size step was always
present.

  Feature has been present forever, but I think it used to
default to 0 
(disabled).

  After checking S2_0: Yes, empire_size_inc was 0 for all
governments.


  - ML