Freeciv

Welcome to Freeciv!

This archive contains Freeciv, a free Civilization-like game, primarily

over a network, and an AI which gives most people a run for their money.

Freeciv aims to be mostly rule-compatible with Civilization II [tm],

where we think it makes more sense, and we have lots and lots of

adjustable parameters to make customizing games possible.

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Even if there is no translation for your language, the game itself may

Web site:

https://www.freeciv.org/

and patches, find out about the Freeciv mailing lists, and see the

Freeciv metaserver, which records games being played around the world.

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Freeciv is released under the GNU General Public License (version 2

program (including source) freely, but see the COPYING file for full

details.

Freeciv is modular:

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a game is in progress, there will be one server program running, and as many

freeciv-gtk4: This uses GTK 4 libraries.

This client is better supported and more developed than the others,

NOTE:

The following examples assume that Freeciv has been installed on

your system, and that the directory containing the "freeciv-gtk4"

installed, then you may want to use the "fcgui" and "fcser" programs,

in exactly the same fashion as "freeciv-gtk4" and "freeciv-server".

Running Freeciv involves starting the server, then the client(s)

steps:

Server:

| >

If you like, you can use the 'set' command to set any of the various

with the 'show' command, and detailed descriptions of each with the

'help <option-name>' command.

| % freeciv-gtk4

can either specify it on the command line with the '--server' option,

or enter it into the first dialog box once the client starts.

For example, suppose the server is running on a different machine

| % freeciv-gtk4 --server neptune

If you're the only human player, then only one client needs to be

"in the background" by appending an ampersand:

| % freeciv-gtk4 &

Another option for the client you may like to try is the '--tiles'

option, which can be used to select different "tilesets" (that is,

- amplio2: An isometric tileset with larger and more detailed tiles.

- isotrident: An isometric tileset similar in shape to the one in Civ 2.

- cimpletoon: amplio2 with alternative units that display direction they

Other tilesets are available from https://www.freeciv.org/wiki/Tilesets

to use informational commands only, type at the server prompt

| > cmdlevel info

Computer Players:

the number of players (human and AI) by setting the 'aifill'

| > set aifill 7

After using the 'start' server command to start the game, any players

if two human players had joined, 5 AI players would be created.

The second way is to explicitly create an AI with the 'create'

| > create HumanKiller

AI players are assigned to nations after all human players have

chosen their nations, but you can choose a particular nation for an

example, to play against AI-controlled Romans, use this server

command:

https://meta.freeciv.org/

there, start freeciv-server with the '--meta' option, or just '-m' for short.

Caveats:

2) If the Metaserver button in the connection dialog doesn't work,

check if your ISP uses a mandatory WWW proxy and make freeciv-gtk4

if the proxy is proxy.myisp.com port 8888, set $http_proxy

to http://proxy.myisp.com:8888/ before starting the client.

The number of players there vary with the time of the day. Try

starting one yourself!

'mygame.sav.xz', or 'mygame.sav.zstd' depending on the setting.)

The Freeciv client works pretty much as you would expect from a

at the same time, then all the AI players move when all the human

operator can alter this value at any time with the 'set' command.

Have a look at the online help system. All three mouse-buttons are

the end of their turn, or just push the 'Turn Done' button.

Use the 'Players' dialog to see who has announced their end of turn,

Use the input line at the bottom of the window for broadcasting

messages to other players.

| /save mygame.sav

The server operator will probably let you issue informational commands

commands has security implications; consider if a player tried:

| /save /etc/passwd

of those.

6) The server operator uses the /endgame command.

can set the final year while the game is still going by changing the

don't want to play through the boring 'cleanup phase'.

Freeciv supports several languages.

You may choose which local language to use by specifying a "locale".

installed Freeciv, you may choose a locale by setting the environment

variable LANG to that locale's standard name before running freeciv-server

and freeciv-gtk4.

(You could do this in your .profile or .login file.)

Sometimes there is a conflict between the local library implementation

around problems with a more detailed descriptor:

LANG=de_DE.UTF-8

(see BUGS).

"warning", "normal", "verbose", and in debug builds "debug".

By default, fatal, error, warning and normal messages are printed to

log messages to a file instead of the screen with the "--log filename",

or "-l filename" command line options.

turned on, and all other debug messages will be suppressed.

To control lines, use: "--debug debug:str1,min,max" and for files which

match str1 only debug messages within the specified minimum and maximum

Example:

Bugs:

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See the file BUGS, for a list of known bugs in this release, and

information about reporting new bugs.