[freeciv-data] Re: Lord of the Rings

[Paul Zastoupil <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, May 01, 2002 at 01:41:47AM -0600, Bobby D. Bryant wrote:
> 
> On 2002.05.01 00:51:04 -0600 Per I. Mathisen wrote:
> 
> > There was lots of discussions about modpacking a year ago. Please tell
> > me what you have in mind here.
> 
> The two main things that I would like to see first are:
> 
> 1) Flexible calendaring, allowing a modpack to specify arbitrary start 
> and end dates, plus arbitrary specification of "epochs" (where an 
> "epoch" is a range of turns that increment the date by a specified 
> number of years).
> 
> 2) A lock-out mechanism that will allow a modpack to limit technologies 
> to certain sides (e.g., so you could keeps Dwarven kingdoms from 
> researching Elvish technology that would let them build Elvish 
> Archers).  This could be implemented in various ways, depending on how 
> complex you wanted it to be.

3) Flat maps.  I think most modpacks would either be on a fantasy type map,
or just a part of a real world, and not wrap.

-- 
Paul Zastoupil