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#69 Scouting Lost City Rumours
From memory, and empirically backed up by http://www.colonizationfans.com/lost-city-rumors.html, I never scouted in the original game with an unskilled unit, because it was too dangerous. I think FreeCol is too lenient on this, and we should decrease the good outcome percentages for unskilled scouting, and correspondingly increase the percentages for skilled scouts.
Odd. I had the impression that scouting with unskilled units is quite a bit more likely to result in "vanished without a trace" than it ever was in the original. I don't dare explore rumors at all before getting de Soto, and I used to do that in the original, albeit mostly with skilled units.
In FreeCol without de Doto, my scouts always disappear in the first to third rumor site. No matter if seasoned or not.
But I, I(!) usually have weird negative odds as soon as the randomizer is involved.
To make progress here we are going to need some actual numbers.
WWC1D?: A log of scouting results (year, type-of-scout, result) from Col1 games of varying difficulty is what we need here.
AFAICT FreeCol is qualitatively[1] Col1-compliant, but the quantitative[2] compliance is still a problem. Moving this to the Pending-Features tracker, but IMHO this issue should not block the release of FreeCol 1.0.
[1] I claim that FreeCol implements all the features of Col1 associated with Lost City Rumours
[2] However the relative probabilities of the possible events is still some distance from what Col1 did
Ticket moved from /p/freecol/bugs/1554/