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DESCRIPTION
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.
WHAT'S NEW
Version 2.1.9: Release notes were unavailable when this listing was updated.
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| Freeciv User Reviews (10 posts) | Write A Review |
 | Jul 3 2009 |
NAOH Please be aware that the 2.1.9 download is source code. 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.
(Version 2.1.9) | |
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| Jul 4 2009 |
MIBRILANE 2.1.9 is available as a DMG download on the More Information page.
(Version 2.1.9) | |
| Jul 4 2009 |
MIBRILANE My mistake, the DMG version is indeed 2.1.6.
(Version 2.1.9) | |
 | Sep 14 2008 |
THE X The Save/Load works just fine. However, when you hit the "Load" button, you have to choose "Browse", and double click on the save file in order for it to launch. ;)
(Version 2.1.6) | |
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| Apr 27 2008 |
ZIZBAN Can't set tax rate, which stinks, because after a certain point, you need to.
(Version 2.1.3) | |
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 | Dec 30 2007 |
GN0S1S Great Game! However, it has a showstopper. 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!
(Version 2.1.2) | |
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| Dec 30 2007 |
GN0S1S The game saves your saved games, on Mac OS X, in the following directory: ~/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.
(Version 2.1.2) | |
| Jan 3 2008 |
GN0S1S For those who need a work around to this load issue, use the instructions found here: http://forum.freeciv.org/viewtopic.php?t=3444 It explains how to save and load games on Mac OS X using Freeciv server
(Version 2.1.2) | |
| May 10 2006 |
NAME Thank you so much for this great game! 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. AND BESIDES: LET X11 TAKE SOME TIME ON LOADING, IT IS INITIALIZING AND THUS TAKES A BIT TIME ON THE FIRST STARTUP.
(Version 2.1b1) | |
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 | Mar 25 2006 |
FAIRMEADOW When I double click on the application, X11 starts and justs sits in xterm. This is on 10.4.5.
(Version 2.0.8) | |
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| Sep 26 2005 |
ANONYMOUS what the heck?!? no Panther support!
(Version 2.0.6) | |
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| Nov 15 2005 |
AET Looks like you'll have to aim for version 2.0.2 for Panther support. http://www.freeciv.org/index.php/More_downloads
(Version 2.0.7) | |
| Jun 25 2005 |
ANONYMOUS on my powerbook with 10.4.1 and no firewalls active, server seems to run OK but clients are broken perhaps- once run, no menu options can be chosen, only thing to do with them is force-quit.
(Version 2.0.2) | |
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| Jun 25 2005 |
ANONYMOUS oh- sorry, new powerbook, no X11 on this one (yet).
(Version 2.0.2) | |
| Jun 25 2005 |
ANONYMOUS no, I was right, X11 is present already in 10.4, the clinet software still doesn't run on my setup at least.
(Version 2.0.2) | |
 | Jun 28 2005 |
ANONYMOUS When you launch either Freeciv client, do you see X11 being launched in the Dock? If not, then either X11 isn't installed, or somehow the launcher app cannot find it. Basically, X11 should be located in the /Applications/Utilities folder.
(Version 2.0.2) | |
| May 17 2005 |
ANONYMOUS This is a great game. A few servers I tried didn't work, but at last one worked (JAIST). Wow!! This game reminds me a lot of Civ2. Perhaps it's missing some videos and shnazzy stuff, but hey, it is free! Back when I played 1.4 or something like that it was really not worth playing, but 2.0 has great features and runs nicely. My only complaint is that the music or lack there of stinks.
(Version 2.0.1) | |
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| Apr 19 2005 |
ANONYMOUS I like this copied concept of a game. However, how can I play the game by myself and not ONLINE?
(Version 2.0) | |
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| Apr 20 2005 |
AET By running a server on your computer. It isn't hard to do, just need to know what to say where. The "Read Me First" document included with the download explains everything (even includes illustrations!).
(Version 2.0) | |
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