I'm curious what are people working on in a 20 year old project? I only know young efforts like these. They mostly focus on getting anything close to the featureset of the original game. But I figure after 20 years that's not a problem with freeciv anymore, right?

We have recently spent a significant amount of effort on making Freeciv playable in a browser. Porting the game to new platforms is a continous development effort. Freeciv-web is now playable in any HTML5 browser, but there are still many things to improve in the game.

And if you're on a computer you can't install to or prefer to keep it on an external or cloud drive, you can grab the portable package, too: http://portableapps.com/apps/games/freeciv_portable

Or, apt-get install freeciv .

Just enjoyably spent an hour remembering exactly how quickly an hour goes when playing freeciv.