[Freeciv-Dev] Re: civserver starting with one player

[Jeff Mallatt <jjm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 2000/01/11 12:17 , Paul Zastoupil wrote:
>I know this isn't a big issue, but watching some of the games that are
>being played on civserver.freeciv.org I have noticed that there is a
>rather large number of games (>10%) that are started with only one
>player.  Does anyone else think that there should be a check in the
>server to keep people from starting a game with one player and aifill at
>0?  This would help people (me sometimes) from accidentally forgetting
>to set aifill and also newbies who have no idea of what's going on.
>
>That is of course unless a one player game is a wonderful feature that I
>just don't understand.

As a developer, most of the games I start are one-player (for testing ;-)

I don't want to get rid of one-player games...  But a simple change, which
may keep newbies from playing alone, is to change the default for aifill to 2.

jjm