Re: [Freeciv-Dev] More flexibilty - was Fantasy Modpack

[Jules Bean <jmlb2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Per Mathisen wrote:
> 
> Mark Nettle wrote:
> > > > That covers quite a bit. Others might be able to add more. Looks 
> > > > eminently
> > > > do-able - if a lot of work. Is this what whoever it was (sorry this is a
> > > > very messy account for me to get/send email to/from) was planning?
> 
> David Pfitzner wrote:
> > > especially: http://ulven.ifi.ntnu.no/freeciv/buildings.ruleset
> 
> On Fri, 28 May 1999, Jules Bean wrote:
> > A more flexible approach, of course, would be to embed a simple
> > interpreter...
> 
> The big problem with extending the buildings ruleset, apart from being a
> lot of code to write (for somebody who is not yet very proficient with C),
> is that I have to pay a lot of attention to speed issues, in particular as
> regards the AI. That pretty much rules out an interpreter, I am afraid.

Hmm.... maybe you're right.

But Quake, for example, runs an interpreter for its 'game rules', and
it's a fairly fast moving game...

Maybe I'll have a look at it over the summer, in terms of a feasibility
study, and report back here if I get something working.

Jules

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