The Freeciv project was born in November 1995, about a year after the release of
Civilization 1. Freeciv 1.0 came out six weeks later, though a flurry of updates produced
v1.0f three weeks later. By the time Civilization III came out in October 2001, Freeciv was
up to v1.12, and v2.0 was released in May 2005. openSUSE 10.3 includes a beta of v2.1.
You can play by yourself with the computer as your opponent(s), play with friends across
a local area network, or use the Freeciv metaserver to play with other folks across the
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Internet. If you have played the commercial version, you??™ll be impressed with the similarities,
although the quality of the graphics may vary depending on your video card. New
players should not be intimidated, because there is a fair amount of help available, both
in the game itself and at the Freeciv website (http://www.freeciv.org).
In Freeciv, you are the absolute ruler of your race. You marshal and manage resources to
build cities. As in other city-simulation games, you must keep your citizens happy while
getting them to produce more wealth, which you then can tax.
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