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Freeciv is a free turn-based multiplayer strategy game, in which each player becomes the leader of a civilization, fighting to obtain the ultimate goal:To become the greatest civilization.
Players of the Civilization series by Microprose should feel at home, since one aim of Freeciv is to have modes with compatible rules.Freeciv is maintained by an international team of coders and enthusiasts, and is easily one of the most fun and addictive network games out there!It also means it has very extensive multilanguage support, something rare in games.
Players of the Civilization series by Microprose should feel at home, since one aim of Freeciv is to have modes with compatible rules.Freeciv is maintained by an international team of coders and enthusiasts, and is easily one of the most fun and addictive network games out there!It also means it has very extensive multilanguage support, something rare in games.
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| Downloads:39,829 |
| Version Downloads:4,138 |
| Type:Games : Strategy & War |
| License:Free |
| Date:01 Feb 2011 |
| Platform:PPC / Intel |
| Price:Free |
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Freeciv is a free turn-based multiplayer strategy game, in which each player becomes the leader of a civilization, fighting to obtain the ultimate goal:To become the greatest civilization.
Players of the Civilization series by Microprose should feel at home, since one aim of Freeciv is to have modes with compatible rules.Freeciv is maintained by an international team of coders and enthusiasts, and is easily one of the most fun and addictive network games out there!It also means it has very extensive multilanguage support, something rare in games.
Players of the Civilization series by Microprose should feel at home, since one aim of Freeciv is to have modes with compatible rules.Freeciv is maintained by an international team of coders and enthusiasts, and is easily one of the most fun and addictive network games out there!It also means it has very extensive multilanguage support, something rare in games.
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1) Right-click the freeciv.app and choose Show Package Contents
2) Get Info, and authenticate to modify the permissions
3) Add the user account you'll be playing the app from - give that user Read-only permissions
4) Apply the new permissions to all enclosed items using the drop-down menu
And you're done. Now, assuming you installed freeciv from an admin account, copy the ~/Documents/Freeciv folder to the same location in the user account you intend to use to play. You'll then have to modify the permissions:
1) Right-click the new Freeciv folder
2) Get Info, and authenticate to modify the permissions
3) Add the current user, assign Read & Write permissions, and make this user the owner
4) For good measure, delete the System and Admin users
5) Apply the new permissions to all enclosed items using the drop-down menu
And you're done. The game should launch and play without problems now (well, you'll still have to contend with the god-awful UI, but, hey, it's a free game after all!)
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2) Get Info on the Contents folder, and authenticate to modify the permissions
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Anyone who wants to play this version needs to either compile it themselves, or use a package manager. (The Mac version of Fink, for instance.)
The most recent version that is available as a pre-compiled binary appears to be 2.1.6.
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gn0s1s reviewed on 30 Dec 2007
It won't save or load your locally played games. Nothing is more frustrating than playing for an hour, saving, and coming back later to load it when you see that no saved game exists.
This is a known bug on OS X Intel since August 5, 2007. The developers need to work on that. A game that doesnt save or load. Ugh!
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~/Documents/Freeciv/saves/
It names them civgame-XXXX.sav.gz where XXXX is a randomly generated number.
However, the game doesn't seem to look there when you try to load a saved game. The dialog box for "load" is not full of files. So, no saved game can be loaded.
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http://forum.freeciv.org/viewtopic.php?t=3444
It explains how to save and load games on Mac OS X using Freeciv server
Name reviewed on 10 May 2006
It is almost like Civilization, really.
I love the network playing. The graphics are very good as well, just try it. Although it is an X11, and there is no doubt that this would be the only way to develop such a tremendous Game.
Thanks a lot.
AND BESIDES: LET X11 TAKE SOME TIME ON LOADING, IT IS INITIALIZING AND THUS TAKES A BIT TIME ON THE FIRST STARTUP.
Anonymous reviewed on 26 Sep 2005
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