Re: [Freeciv-Dev] Nationalities

[Daniel Sjolie <deepone@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 1999-06-10 08:00:06, Bobby D. Bryant wrote:
> Patrick Schmid wrote:
> 
> > Is it really a good idea to implement differences between nationalities?
> > This just produces stereotypes and prejudices.
> > For example:
> > The Germans would be probably very aggresive (2 world wars), the French
> > perhaps too (Napoleon), Russians would be also on the bad side (Stalin...),
> > Chinese perhaps too (human rights),...
> > And there would be some "good" nations, e.g. the Americans...
> >
> > I think differing between nationalities would be contraproductive for a
> > world-wide project like Freeciv.
> 
> Yes and no.
> 
> "Yes" because no good is likely to come from trying to spread our parochial
> misconceptions about other civilizations around the world by means of a game
> implementation.
> 
> But "no", because it would be nice to have this feature for (e.g.) a Fantasy
> modpack, where you would *want* the Orcs to be aggressive and the Melniboneans
> to be perfectionist, and the AI would need some kind of flag if it were to
> make distinctions in their behavior.

That would be races...
You could have several orc nations...
No problem there but a whole new thing to implement...
Not a hard one really, but I'm not up for it right now...

/Daniel

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