Freeciv is a Video game of strategy to the turn by turn, free, copying the majority of the concepts of the commercial play Civilization in which each player becomes the chief of a civilization, fighting to arrive at the ultimate goal: to become greatest civilization.

Freeciv is developed and maintained by a free international community of coders and fans to enrich the original play Civilization .

Description

The players take the role of the chief of a nation, since the year 4000 AV-JC, and must guide their people through the centuries. With time, new projections scientific emergent, which allows the construction of buildings and the formation of new warlike units (like diplomats, explorers…). The players can devote themselves to wars without end or form more complex diplomatic alliances.

The part is completed when one of the players eradic all the others, or if it colonizes space, or in the year 2000 - in which case civilization with the most score gains. The allotted points depend on the size of civilization, its prosperity, its scientific and cultural projections.

Freeciv proves very configurable, and can use various systems of rules: Civilization I , Civilization II or the mode Freeciv , this last being made the most popular rules. Graphics and the sounds can replaced beings; as for these first, they can be isometric or in two dimensions or hexagonal.

Freeciv is conceived for the network, the multijoueurs parts. The players connect themselves to a waiter, in Lan or on Internet, and play between them with optionnellement of the artificial intelligences.

One or more players act as administrators and can configure the rules of the game. Typically modified rules are:

• Many necessary players

• Speed of technological development
• Presence or not of players controlled by computer
• Presence or not of barbarians invading civilizations
• Proximity of the cities
• Distribution of the islands and unintermitting

The human players play simultaneously, then the artificial intelligences (if it there of a) and so on.

CivWorld is an editor of charts, free him too.

Freeciv functions under Linux, Windows, Amiga or Apple Macintosh.

See too

Civilization

External bonds

• Official site
• Official site (in French)
• Freeciv.org Forum
• Freeciv Fan-Site
• Forum of Apolyton

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