Re: [Freeciv-Dev] Roadmap

["Bobby D. Bryant" <bdbryant@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Massimo Campostrini wrote:

> The best solution I can think of has all the race information in the
> server; either it's compiled in, or, better, the server can read race
> info from a set of files.

Please, use the files.  Something like tribes.ruleset, with a format inspired by
the other *.ruleset files that were recently implemented, would be very nice.
Then have the game manager load them at the server prompt with "set tribes
<directory>", in parallel with the way the others are loaded.

I'm in the process of designing a modpack right now, and it would have required 
a
lot of hacking and a separate distribution of the entire game if someone hadn't
started extracting the hard-coded information into separate ruleset files.  I
probably wouldn't have bothered.  If you gave the nations' and leaders' names 
the
same treatment, I could easily customize them along with the rest of what I'm
doing.

Thanks,

Bobby Bryant
Austin, Texas