Re: [Freeciv-Dev] Idea for 2.0

[David Pfitzner <dwp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Artur Biesiadowski wrote:

> Jules Bean wrote:
> 
> > 
> > I disagree.  I think that at save game time, the server should ask the
> > client 'is there any data you want to save?'.  And the client should
> > send back its map. 

> - if client crash or lost link and restart, there will be nobody to get
> this information from.

Exactly.  Furthermore, there are also AI players who you may 
want to connect to mid-game, and eg start playing as human.  
If the fog were a client thing, there would be no way to know 
what to display as foggy/how/etc when you first connect.

> I agree that it would be nice to allow server to save some amount of
> client-specific data from clients

Yeah, in principle, but it could get complicated...

-- David