**** Ancients modpack v1.0a for Freeciv 1.9.0 ****

Last updated 3 Feb 2000.

This is the Ancients modpack for Freeciv.  A modpack is a kit that allows you
to play Freeciv with customization of the rules.  The Ancients modpack is
designed to provide Freeciv with a flavor of the pre-gunpowder era.


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License:

This material is derived from material furnished by Freeciv, and therefore
falls under the GNU Public License.  See the file COPYING for more information.


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Requirements:

This modpack should run on Freeciv 1.9.0.  I'm not sure about it running on
later beta versions. This modpack is converted from the 1.8.0 version, and
thus has no help text whatsoever; however, it should run on 1.9.0 without any
problems.


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Installing:

Your freeciv directory has a subdirectory "data". Under "data", create a new
directory "ancients" and decompress-untar the files into the new directory.
Then move "ancients.tilespec" back to the "data" directory itself.

Be sure to set protections so that whoever runs the server and/or client on
your system will have read access to all the files in the new directory.


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Using the modpack:

There are two versions of the technology tree in the kit, one squished onto
one page and one on two pages. It is probably clearer on the two-page version.
The tree may be helpful for you when you play.


For network play, be sure the modpack is available on both the server and any
clients.


Start the server and issue the following commands:

	set techs ancients
	set units ancients
	set buildings ancients

These server commands can be used in conjunction with most other server
commands that you want to use.

Optionally, the commands can be placed in a file and loaded automatically
with the server's -r command line option.  See the FreeCiv documentation for
more details.


Start the client with the command:

	civclient --tiles ancients

The tilespec files assume that you have the Engels 45x45 tileset installed
in the "data/engels" directory. If this is not the case, feel free to modify
the tilespec files as needed.


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Web Site:

This is the site of the original 1.8 format Ancients modpack. Any information
you want on the modpack itself should be here.

	http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/bdbryant/freeciv/ancients.html

Questions about the modpack format (conversion to 1.9) should go to:

	Moses Lei <trumpkin@wizard.net>


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Future:

I'm not sure what the original author wants to do with this. If anyone wants
to volunteer to write some help text for the modpack, that would be great.
Feel free to make changes that you think would make the pack better.  If you
come up with some really great ideas that you've implemented, tested, and
feel like they work, post it!  Also, the original author was looking for some
icons for a "Torsion Catapult" and some other things (look in units.ruleset
for the comments).  If you'd like, take a stab at drawing them.

Enjoy the modpack!

Moses
