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FREECIV(6) Games and Demos FREECIV(6)

NAME

freeciv - The Freeciv game (overview)

SYNOPSIS

freeciv-gtk3.22|freeciv-gtk4|freeciv-sdl2|freeciv-qt|freeciv-[various...]
[ options... ]
freeciv-server [ options... ]

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 Civilization II(R) by Microprose(R) should feel at home,
since one aim of Freeciv is to have 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!

Freeciv is designed to be played either over a network or on one
machine. There can be a single human player, or multiple human
player in different locations on different kinds of computers.
Freeciv can operate artificial intelligence (AI) players as desired,
to fill out the game.

Human players run a freeciv-client(6) program to join a game. There
are several different Freeciv client programs to choose between. The
Freeciv client can be thought of as a thin window onto the server's
information and activity.

The terrain, rules, and activity of the game are held by a running
freeciv-server(6) program. In a single-player game, the player's
client program starts up its own local server program behind the
scenes. In a multi-player game, someone starts the server first, then
players connect to that server. The server runs the AI players. The
server enforces the game rules, even if a cleverly-modified client
program tries to cheat.

The Freeciv game is translated into many different languages.
Generally, the Freeciv client follows the conventions of the computer
it runs on to determine which language it should use when presenting
the game to the player.

The Freeciv game offers many ways to tweak how games are set up, and
to create completely different looks and game play. When starting
the Freeciv server, you can adjust many parameters of the game map,
rules, and models which drive the game. You can set the number and
difficulty level of the AI players. You can set the size of the map
and the kind of terrain. You can also choose among various rule sets
and scenarios, which can lead to very different kinds of games. When
running a Freeciv client, you can choose among tilesets and
soundsets, to adjust how games look and sound.

The Freeciv community offers even more scenarios, rulesets, tilesets,
and soundsets. A freeciv-modpack(6) utility lets you locate and
download this additional content.

There are Freeciv "metaservers" which catalogue Freeciv servers
seeking to attract players. One is operated by the Freeciv project.
When starting a Freeciv client, you may have it contact a metaserver
to find games to join. When starting a Freeciv server, you may have
it publish its presence with a metaserver.

BUGS

Please report bugs to the Freeciv bug tracker,
https://redmine.freeciv.org/projects/freeciv .

MORE INFO

There is a great deal more information at the Freeciv homepage,
https://www.freeciv.org/ . Updates and new info are first posted
there. A Client Manual, a Server Manual, and a wiki on many topics,
are published there. There is a user forum linked to from there.

Freeciv installers include a number of documentation files with the
game. See the FILES section for the location. They make interesting
reading -- especially after you have played for a while, when you are
beginning to wonder how you can do more, and why the AI players can
do so much.

FILES

bin/freeciv-*, bin/freeciv-server, bin/freeciv-mp-*
These are the executable programs. There are several client
programs, a server program, several modpack programs, and some
other Freeciv developer utilities.

share/doc/freeciv/README.*
These are documentation files describing how the game and some
of the included rulesets operate, in detail.

AUTHORS

The Freeciv Team <freeciv-dev AT freelists.org>.

This manpage was originally drafted by Jim DeLaHunt
<http://jdlh.com/>. It was based on the freeciv-client and freeciv-
server pages by Florian Ernst <florian_ernst AT gmx.net> and Ben
Bettin <bwbettin AT gmail.com>. Feel free to use it as you wish.