about freeciv

i don't know if this thread belongs here but...

i've never played civ 1 long enough to get a good impression. thought the graphics was too pixellated and gameplay progression way too slow.

is freeciv an accurate adaptation of civ1? 'cause i just started playing it in the british isles scenario and easy mode AI felt like hard mode. and the barbarians are even worse. quite pissed that enemy AI will instantly go to war with you unless you constantly bribe them for a ceasefire or peace. i certainly don't remember that in civ1.

freeciv is based on Civ II. Originally it had Civ I overhead tile graphics but eventually picked up the isometric view it uses today.

okay. thanks.

according to the faq i just read, easy mode is only hard if i don't expand quickly. guess the ruleset just isn't very peacemonger friendly like civ 4. and incidentally i found the options for turning off barbarians in the server options.

okay. hate to bump my own thread but looks like this forum is semi-dead anyway.

downloaded the ruleset for civ2-3. and used civ2 rules. AI feels like a pushover on island maps w/o all those damn barbarians.they're terrible at naval warfare but the annoyingly bad stacking rules makes it hard for me to keep a beachhead too. think i can only beat them at final score or space race this way.

btw, anyone knows if there's a hi-res tileset that works with version 2.3.x AND works on the windows version. the "freeland"(still a beta) tileset doesn't work on windows. most of the mods and tilesets are version 2.0 ... did most of their modders moved on to civ 3 and 4?

Don't think more posters would help as freeciv was never a popular topic. There just doesn't seem to be much overlap. Have you tried asking in the Civ II forum or one of the more general forums? I think you're far more likely to get answers there. Personally I'd search for "Freeciv" and post a rider to an existing thread. That way you'll notify people subscribed to it.