has this happened to you?

[lordmacroer]

i play civ 3 and 4 about 99 percent of time but today i decided to around with freeciv (which i guess models civ 2) and what do you know, first game i play i move my villager onto a hut and the hut founds my capitol! just thought it was werid to get my capitol for free.

 

[jarhead_leif]

You're talking about freeciv, right?

Units in freeciv are different from civ2. The difference is that they have MP of 2 instead of 1 and 3 for an opening explorer. So it's worth a shot to move your explorer 3 to 6 tiles away (to pop a city from a hut). Unlike civ2, I ain't gonna waste my turn just to search for a distant hut using my opening settler. SIP is better.

In your question, if it happens to me to pop the capital from a hut?
I say yes for freeciv and never for civ2.

 

[lordmacroer]

the funny thing is, the hut was 1 square away from my starting dot and i moved my worker to pop it lol

 

[jarhead_leif]

Why didn't you say so earlier?

It never happened to me in civ2, anyway. But it happened to me often when I was playing freeciv. I remember that the starting units are explorer, a couple of workers, and a settler, right?

 

[lordmacroer]

yea something like that. i quit after 2 turns, its just not worth trying to figure out he interface its too confusing.