[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#14343) Data: Egyptian city list

["William Allen Simpson" <wsimpson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=14343 >

Per I. Mathisen wrote:
> <URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=14343 >
> 
> On Fri, 4 Nov 2005, William Allen Simpson wrote:
> 
>>What about Benedict's earlier idea: "Londinium|London (ocean,river)"?
> 
> 
> It is, in itself, a rather neat feature.
> 
> The key problem is that now that we have gone down the road of unlimited
> quantity, that has pretty much locked the features that we can provide. It
> is entirely unpractical to add anything new to nations now that there are
> so many of them. You might be able, with a lot of work, to add such
> information for a few nations, and even make it consistent. However, you
> won't be able to do it for all nations, and especially not in any way
> consistent.
> 
Ah, but the elegance of the feature (at least as I understand it) is
that only Ancient nations (and maybe some Medieval) would have the list,
and the city name would change when a more modern nation took over.

There might also be some where various conflicts have the winners
rename the city, but those would be scenario specific.  The folks doing
scenarios might be interested enough to document the changes generally.


> So we end up with just a mess, with some cities for some nations
> occasionally changing names, while most don't, and it just ends up
> confusing the user, instead of amazing the user.
> 
I think you only have to make the change in a few nations to get a
large effect.

I suspect it would be the romans, greeks, and egyptians at first.  Then
the carthagenians, illyrians, persians, babylonians -- as time allows.

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