Re: [Freecol-developers] Bartolome De las Casas Bonus isn't persistent

[Stian G. <sti...@st...>]

> From: David Lewis <hig...@gm...>
> Sent: 24 September 2022 00:27
>
> I feel like this particular bonus – which matches Col1 – is actually part of a Col1 bug.
> That is that after you recruit Bartolome and your converts are converted to Free Colonist,
> the benefit ends there. No future Convert will become a Free Colonist.
>
> I think that we should fix that in the FreeCol ruleset so that all native converts are
> automatically converted to free colonists as soon as they begin work. 
> OR...
> We should enable the education of Native Converts after Bartolome has joined the
> congress, unless this also should be a default setting, and thus Bartolome might
> decrease the education time.

We can't change the classic ruleset, but I agree that we should fix this in the FreeCol ruleset. One of these fixes seem good:

1. Auto-convert to Free Colonist
2. Allow clearing a convert to become a Free Colonist after Casas appears in the congress (we should remove the initial auto-conversion in this case).
3. Allow converts to be trained to outdoor specialists faster than Free Colonists would (we should remove the initial auto-conversion here as well).


Best wishes,
Stian