Re: [Freeciv-Dev] More American city names

[Lalo Martins <lalo@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Jan 02, Falk Hueffner decided to present us with:
> On Fri, 1 Jan 1999 21:41:33 -0200, Lalo Martins <lalo@xxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> 
> >Upon connection, each client informs the serer a list of all
> >supported races. So the server computes the intersection
> >(for those not in maths, the set of races supported by all
> >clients) and offers it as the set of possible races.
> 
> 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.

I think this alternative is "evil" (TM). Uses a lot more of
bandwidth and there is the flags problem you see in Trent's
reply. In my sollution there's just a small negotiation period
before game start, when only race _names_ are sent between
clients and servers.

Even if it were not for bandwidth and tilesizes, transmitting
flags and city names would still be wrong:

1: The only client that needs the cityname list for a race is
   the one that will play that race.

2: What if I want to play with Americans and use the Confederate
   flag? Or play with the chinese and use a pre-revolution flag?
   Or play with English and use a Celtic Cross as flag? Or
   Arthur's red dragon?

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