Freeciv-Earth

Games

strategy game

SHOW HN2016

63points
12comments
#611of 2,264 in 2016
Top 27%of 2016 by points

How HN took it

DebatedReal support and real criticism

4 positive, 0 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 2 critical, out of 7 comments about the project. Thread score +0.22.

Execution: 2 for, 1 againstDocs: 0 for, 1 againstIdea: 1 for, 0 againstPerformance: 1 for, 0 against

The thread, comment by comment

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What HN said

What people liked

  • Impressive feature and fast loading

    From 2 comments
    • Well that is pretty damn impressive! Well done!
      mhuffman on HN
    • It loaded really fast on my macbook pro in FF. Thanks for that!
      erikb on HN
  • Fun idea for playing on familiar places

    From 2 comments
    • I would love to see how a battle for my neighborhood would go. Please enable geolocation.
      oaf357 on HN
    • If you're in the suburbs, it seems like the barbarian spawn rate might be too high. (And, by "barbarian", I mean "children".) But, I agree. I've often thought how cool it would…
      SwellJoe on HN

Objections

  • Map attribution to OSM was incorrect, since imagery is Mapbox

    From 1 comment
    • The satellite/aerial imagery you show on the first page is strictly a Mapbox product, it isn't something from OSM. So attributing OSM on that slippy is incorrect. Do you pull OSM…
      maxerickson on HN
  • Barbarian spawn rate seems too high in suburbs

    From 1 comment
    • If you're in the suburbs, it seems like the barbarian spawn rate might be too high. (And, by "barbarian", I mean "children".) But, I agree. I've often thought how cool it would…
      SwellJoe on HN

Requests

  • Enable geolocation to start on own neighborhood

    From 1 comment
    • I would love to see how a battle for my neighborhood would go. Please enable geolocation.
      oaf357 on HN

Questions

  • Whether an install is needed to play Freeciv

    From 1 comment
    • Looks cool, but I get a Network error, "Unable to communicate with the civclientlauncher servlet. Error: error OK null". Do I have to install something first? Edit: I've never…
      bubblesorting on HN

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