Re: [Freeciv-Dev] More American city names

[Trent Piepho <xyzzy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 2 Jan 1999, Falk Hueffner wrote:
> Well, if you would put that much work in it, it would be much better
> if the server would just send the relevant information to the clients
> at startup.
> 
> It would send a list of all race names. If the client has not already
> the flag, it gets also transmitted.

Sending race names, leader names, city suggestions, etc at start up wouldn't
be very difficult.  It's not very much information really.  There is a problem
with sending the flag.  Not every player is using the default tile set, so
there is no way to have the proper flag.  Some people might be playing with
small tiles, or large tiles, or ones with the flag in the corner like civ2,
etc.

> For the city name suggestion, one could make a round-trip package to
> ask the server for one. Seems better to me than to compile it into the
> client (and my AI-client could use it, too... hehe)

Have the server send the contents of the default_*_city_names arrays to the
client.  Perhaps just the one needed for the race the client is playing.