Add an option, when starting the game, to set the minimum distance between cities. That is, new cities must be more than X tiles away from existing ones (except native settlements).
Discussion moved to the patch, but the implementation was faulty. This is still a reasonable idea, but needs to work with the existing canClaimForSettlement routines.
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Add an option, when starting the game, to set the minimum distance between cities. That is, new cities must be more than X tiles away from existing ones (except native settlements).
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I liked the idea and implemented: https://sourceforge.net/p/freecol/patches/101/
Discussion moved to the patch, but the implementation was faulty. This is still a reasonable idea, but needs to work with the existing canClaimForSettlement routines.
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