Re: [Freeciv-Dev] Idea (battle.net)

[Stephen Hodge <stephenh@xxxxxxxxxx>]

David Pfitzner wrote:
> One possible way to avoid the problem of everyone having to
> start at the same time would be to allow people to take over
> from AI players (and automatically toggle the AI status when
> players join/leave).  Whether this would be worth it I'm not
> sure (eg, you join as some crappy AI civ which is about to
> die...)

I'd say "them's the breaks". Perhaps you could give the new player some sort
of appraisal of how the AI's doing and then give the option of starting a
new civilization or taking over from the AI.

Regards,
Steve Hodge