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This page partially describes the contents of a ruleset collection. It is intended as developer reference and for people wanting to create/compile alternative rulesets for Freeciv.

The anatomy of an effects ruleset file

/data/classic/effects.ruleset

The effects.ruleset file contains all effects in play in a Freeciv scenario. Typically it contains *include ai_effects.ruleset as cheat sheet for AIs.

They have the following form:

[effect_hydro_plant]
name  = "Output_Bonus"
value = 25
reqs  = {"type", "name", "range"
         "Building", "Factory", "City"
         "Building", "Hydro Plant", "City"
         "OutputType", "Shield", "Local"
        } 
The text in the brackets is the entry name, which just has to be unique, but is otherwise not used.
The name field tells Freeciv which Effect Type you are defining. The value is the effect's value, which depends on which effect it is. The reqs table contain a list of requirements for this effect being in effect. You need to satisfy all requirements listed here for this effect to take effect in the game.
The value field is the integer amount parameter for many effects (must be in the range -32767 to 32767; some do not handle negative numbers well).
The reqs table consists of sets of Requirement Type, Requirement, and Requirement Range.
Some requirement types may only work at certain ranges. In particular, at present, "Continent" range effects can affect only cities and units in cities.
2.4 Negation
There is the nreqs table which is the opposite of the reqs table, these are conditions which prevent the effect from taking place. Any one of the nreq conditions will prevent the effect from taking effect.
nreqs  = {"type", "name", "range"
         "Building", "Factory", "City"
        } 
2.5 Negation
A requirement may have a negated field, and if this is 'TRUE', the requirement is negated.
reqs  = {"type", "name", "range", "negated"
         "Building", "Factory", "City", TRUE
        } 
2.6 Negation
The negated field is replaced with present field, defaulting to 'TRUE', but if 'FALSE' requirement must not be fulfilled.
reqs  = {"type", "name", "range", "present"
         "Building", "Factory", "City", FALSE
        } 
Survives
A requirement may have a survives field, and if this is 'TRUE', the effect survives destruction (wonders only).
[effect_plastics_slowdown]
type    = "Slow_Down_Timeline"
value   = 1
reqs    =
    { "type", "name", "range", "survives"
      "Tech", "Plastics", "World", TRUE
    }

Effect Types

Effect Type Value Range Explanation
Empire_Size_Mod
 i  Removed in version 2.2.
Once your civilization has more cities than amount + the server setting 'cityfactor', each city gets one more unhappy citizen.
No_Incite
 i  Replaced with the Incite City action in 2.6
City cannot be incited.
Revolution_When_Unhappy
 i  Replaced with Revolution_Unhappiness in 2.6
If a city owned by this player is in revolt for more than two turns, government falls.
Unbribable_Units
 i  Replaced with the Bribe Unit action in 2.6
Units cannot be bribed.
Airlift Allow airlift to/from a city. Starting from 2.2 amount of units can airlift each turn.
Any_Government Allow instant government changes.
Capital_City The city with this effect is the capital city.
City_Vision_Radius_Sq Increase city vision radius in squared distance by amount tiles.
Civil_War_Chance Base chance in percent of a nation being split by civil war when its capital is captured is increased by this amount. This percentage is increased by 5 for each city in civil disorder and reduced by 5 for each one celebrating.
Defend_Bonus Increases defensive bonuses of units. Any unit requirements on this effect will be applied to the _attacking_ unit. The defensive bonus is ignored by attackers with "IgWall" flag (up to 2.5). Attackers with "BadWallAttacker" flag will have their firepower set to 1.
Empire_Size_Step After your civilization reaches Empire_Size_Base size, it gets one more unhappy citizen for each amount of cities it gets above that. Set to zero to disable. You can use Empire_Size_Step even though Empire_Size_Base is zero.
Enable_Nuke Allows the production of nuclear weapons.
Enable_Space Allows the production of space components.
Force_Content Make amount unhappy citizens content. Applied after martial law and unit penalties.
Gain_AI_Love Gain amount points of "AI love" with AI(s).
Give_Imm_Tech Give amount techs immediately.
Growth_Food Food left after cities grow or shrink is amount percent of the capacity of the city's foodbox. This also affects the 'aqueductloss' penalty.
Fanatics Units with "Fanatics" flag incur no upkeep.
Happiness_To_Gold Make all Make_Content and Force_Content effects instead generate gold.
Has_Senate Has a senate that prevents declarations of war in most cases.
Have_Embassies Like having embassies with all the players one has ever had contact with. In 2.6 and prior provided embassy-like effect with all the players (like having both Have_Contacts and Have_Embassies)
HP_Regen Units that do not move recover amount percentage of their full hitpoints per turn.
Incite_Cost_Pct Increases revolt cost by amount percent.
Inspire_Partisans Partisan units (defined in units.ruleset) may spring up when this player's cities are taken.
Make_Content Make amount unhappy citizens content. Applied before martial law and unit penalties.
Make_Content_Mil Make amount unhappy citizens caused by units outside of a city content.
Make_Content_Mil_Per Make amountper unit of unhappy citizens caused by units outside of a city content.
Make_Happy Make amount citizens happy.
Martial_Law_Each The amount of citizens pacified by each military unit giving martial law.
Martial_Law_Max The maximum amount of units that will give martial law in city.
Max_Rates The maximum setting for each tax rate is amount.
Move_Bonus Add amount movement to units. Use UnitClass' requirement with range of 'Local' to give it a specific class of units only.
No_Anarchy No period of anarchy between government changes. (This also neuters the Has_Senate effect.)
No_Diplomacy Cannot use any diplomacy.
No_Sink_Deep Triremes no longer sink when on dangerous seas.
No_Unhappy No citizens in the city are ever unhappy.
Nuke_Proof City is nuke proof.
Output_Add_Tile Add amount to each worked tile.
Output_Bonus City production is increased by amount percent.
Output_Bonus_2 City production is increased by amount percent after Output_Bonus, so is multiplicative with it.
Output_Inc_Tile Add amount to each worked tile that already has at least 1 output.
Output_Inc_Tile_Celebrate Tiles get amount extra output when city working them is celebrating.
Output_Penalty_Tile When a tile yields more output than amount, it gets a penalty of -1.
Output_Per_Tile Increase tile output by amount percent.
Output_Waste Base amount in percentage that each city has in waste. Waste can be used with any output type, use an OutputType requirement to specify which.
Output_Waste_By_Distance For each tile in real distance that a city is from your capital, it gets amount of extra waste.
Output_Waste_Pct Reduce waste by amount percent.
Pollu_Pop_Pct Increases pollution caused by each unit of population by amount percent (adds to baseline of 100%, i.e. 1 pollution per citizen).
Pollu_Prod_Pct Increases pollution caused by shields by amount percent.
Rapture_Grow Can rapture grow cities.
Reveal_Cities Immediately make all cities known.
Reveal_Map Immediately make entire map known.
Size_Adj Increase maximum size of a city by amount.
Size_Unlimit Make the size of a city unlimited.
Slow_Down_Timeline Slow down the timeline based on the AMOUNT. If AMOUNT >= 3 the timeline will be max 1 year/turn; with AMOUNT == 2 it is max 2 years/turn; with AMOUNT == 1 it is max 5 years/turn; with AMOUNT <= 0 the timeline is unaffected. The effect will be ignored if game.spacerace isn't set.
Specialist_Output Specify what outputs a specialist is producing. Should be used with an OutputType requirement.
Spy_Resistant If a spy specifies a target for sabotage, then she has an AMOUNT percent chance to fail. Also in diplomatic combat defending diplomatic units in cities will get an AMOUNT percent bonus. All Spy_Resistant's are summed before being applied.
SS_Structural,
SS_Component,
SS_Module
A part of a spaceship; this is a "Local" ranged effect. It (for now) applies to improvements which cannot be built unless "Enable_Space" is felt. Buildings which have this effect should probably not be given any other effects.
Tech_Parasite Gain any advance known already by amount number of other players. Note that if you have two such effects, they combine into one much worse effect (the number of players required to gain an advance is increased).
Trade_Revenue_Bonus Trade revenue is multiplied by pow(2, amount/1000). The amount value is taken from the caravan's home city.
Unhappy_Factor Multiply unhappy unit upkeep by amount.
Unit_No_Lose_Pop No population lost when a city's defender is lost.
Unit_Recover Units recover amount extra hitpoints per turn.
Unit_Upkeep_Free_Per_City In each city unit upkeep is deducted by this amount. As usual, you can use with OutputType requirement to specify which kind of upkeep this should be.
Unit_Vision_Radius_Sq Increase unit vision radius in squared distance by amount tiles.
Upgrade_Unit Upgrade amount obsolete units per turn.
Upkeep_Free Improvements with amount or less upkeep cost become free to upkeep (others are unaffected).
Upkeep_Factor Multiply unit upkeep by amount.
Veteran_Build New units of this type start with veterancy. In 2.4 and prior, the amount value is ignored, so that you can have multiple Veteran_Build effects, and units will only get 1 free veterancy level. In 2.5 and later, amount specifies the initial veteran level and is cumulative.
Veteran_Combat Increases the chance of units of this type becoming veteran after combat by amount percent.
Effect type Value Range
 i  New in 2.1
Explanation
Visible_Walls Positive amount only instructs clients to use wall graphics for city.

 i  New in 2.6: Exact amount tells wall set to draw

Effect type Value Range
 i  New in 2.2
Explanation
City_Unhappy_Size Each citizen after amount of citizens are unhappy instead of content.
Empire_Size_Base Once your civilization has more cities than the value of this effect, each city gets one more unhappy citizen. If the sum of this effect and Empire_Size_Step is zero, there is no such penalty.
Health_Pct Reduces possibility of illness (plague) in a city by amount percent. This has no effect in rulesets which do not have plague enabled.
Migration_Pct Increase the calculated migration score for the a city by amount in percent.
Shield2Gold_Factor Factor in percent for the conversion of unit shield upkeep to gold upkeep. A value of 200 would transfor 1 shield upkeep to 2 gold upkeep. The range of this effect must be player or world. Note that only units with the "Shield2Gold" flag will be affected by this.
Tech_Cost_Factor Multiplier for research cost.
Tile_Workable If value != 0, city can work target tile.
Turn_Years Calendar advances amount years each turn unless Slow_Down_Timeline effects override this.
Upgrade_Price_Pct Increases unit upgrade cost by amount percent. This effect works at player level. You cannot adjust upgrade costs for certain unit type or for units upgraded in certain city.
Effect type Value Range
 i  New in 2.3
Explanation
City_Build_Slots Increase the number of units with no population cost a city can build in a turn by amount. The required shields must be available.
City_Radius_Sq Increase the squared city radius by amount. Currently, this can only usefully have "MinSize", "Building", or "Tech" requirements.
Tech_Upkeep_Free If this value is greater than 0, the tech upkeep is reduced by this value. For tech upkeep style Basic this is total reduction, for tech upkeep style Cities (new in 2.6) this is applied to every city.
Effect type Value Range
 i  New in 2.4
Explanation
City_Image The index for the city image of the given city style. Allows to align the city image with the city radii.
Irrig_Possible If value of this effect > 0, target tile can be irrigated. In addition to requirements of this effect, there's still hardcoded requirement that unit doing the irrigation has "Settlers" flag, and terrain.ruleset controls which terrain types can be irrigated at all.
Effect type Value Range
 i  New in 2.5
Explanation
Enemy_Citizen_Unhappy_Pct During war, citizens of enemy nationality are more unhappy. Value of this effect tells how many percents of the enemy citizens in cities get unhappy because of the war.
Gov_Center City with non-zero effect value is considered Governmental center. Unless corruption is flat for entire nation, it depends on distance to nearest such center. In earlier versions this effect was coupled in to Capital_City effect.
Irrig_TF_Possible If value of this effect > 0, tile terrain can be changed by irrigating action. In addition to requirements of this effect, terrain.ruleset controls which terrain types can be transformed this way.
Max_Trade_Routes Value of this effect tells how many trade routes city can establish. It affects only attempts to establish new routes, existing routes are not removed if value gets smaller than current number of routes. Maximum value, to which this value is clipped itself, is 5 routes.
Mining_Possible If value of this effect > 0, mine can be built to target tile. In addition to requirements of this effect, terrain.ruleset controls which terrain types can have mines at all.
Mining_TF_Possible If value of this effect > 0, tile terrain can be changed by mining action. In addition to requirements of this effect, terrain.ruleset controls which terrain types can be transformed this way.
Not_Tech_Source Tech cannot be received from this player by any means.
Transform_Possible If value of this effect > 0, target tile can be transformed. In addition to requirements of this effect, terrain.ruleset controls which terrain types can be transformed at all.
Effect type Value Range
 i  New in 2.6
Explanation
History Value of this effect is how much cumulative History-type culture the city is producing.
Irrigation_Pct This effect controls how much of the terrain specific irrigation bonus applies.
Mining_Pct This effect controls how much of the terrain specific mining bonus applies.
National_History Value of this effect is how much cumulative History-type culture the city is producing in addition to that produced by individual cities.
National_Performance Value of this effect is how much Performance-type culture the nation is producing in addition to that produced by individual cities.
Output_Tile_Punish_Pct Reduce the output of a tile by amount percent. The number of units to remove is rounded down. Applied after everything except a city center's minimal output.
Performance Value of this effect is how much Performance-type culture the city is producing. Performance is not persistent culture, but affects only

current turn.

Revolution_Unhappiness If a city is in revolt for more than value turns, government falls.
Traderoute_Pct Percentage bonus for trade from traderoutes. This bonus applies after the value of the traderoute is already calculated. It affects one end of the traderoute only.
Turn_Fragments Calendar advances amount fragments each turn, in addition to years advanced by Turn_Years.
Unit_Bribe_Cost_Pct Increases unit bribe cost by amount percent.
Victory When value of this effect gets positive, player wins the game. In simplest case you'll have just one such effect with value 1 (or any positive value) and thus requirements of that effect are requirements for winning the game.
Effect type Value Range

 i  New in 3.0

Explanation
Attack_Bonus
Increases offensive bonuses of units.
Building_Buy_Cost_Pct
Increases building buy cost by AMOUNT percent.
Conquest_Tech_Pct
When a city is conquered, conqueror has a AMOUNT percentage chance to get a tech from the player losing the city.
Have_Contacts Provides contact with all the other players.
Stealings_Ignore When determining how difficult it is to steal a tech from enemy, AMOUNT

previous times tech has been stolen from the city is ignored.

Unit_Buy_Cost_Pct
Increases unit buy cost by AMOUNT percent.
Effect type Value Range

 i  New in 3.1

Explanation
Building_Build_Cost_Pct
Increases building cost of a building.
Unit_Build_Cost_Pct
Increases building cost of a unit.

See also

Editing Rulesets
Editing BuildingsEditing CitiesEditing EffectsEditing GameEditing Governments
Editing NationsEditing StylesEditing TechsEditing TerrainEditing Units
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