Freeciv for Mac
Free open-source X11 Civilization game.
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Freeciv overview
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 in version 3.1.1
Server / General
- Fixed issues with more than 65535 cities and units. Both server and client need to be updated for the fix to be active RM#304 RM#489
- Fixed allied victory in case all players get allied before anyone perish RM#324
- Fixed server crash after player removal when some remaining unit has that player as their nationality RM#383
Changes affecting other rulesets / modders
- Worklist items with unreachable local range building requirements correctly purged osdn#48773
- Supposedly hidden extras are no longer sent to the client as resources either RM#350
Full list of changes available here
Freeciv for Mac
Free
In English
Version 3.1.1
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Dec 28 2014
Version: 2.3.0
Freeciv 2.4.4 is released on 6th Dec 2014
http://freeciv.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page
Aug 6 2010
Version: 2.2.2
I tested version 2.2.2 with OSX 10.6.4 and XQuartz 2.5.2. Unfortunately it doesn't work (you have to do a sudo chmod 755 /opt/com.bitaxis/bin/freeciv-gtk2).
Jun 8 2010
Version: 2.1.9b1
The installation is bugged in multi-user environments. The package will only install to the /Applications folder, and so requires administrators' privileges. However, installing this way denies other users access to a critical folder in the app contents, causing the app to crash on launch when run from any account other than an admin's. The way to fix it is to:
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!)
Jul 3 2009
Version: 2.1.9
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.
Sep 14 2008
Version: 2.1.6
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. ;)
