[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Some historical corrections for FreeCiv

[Mika Korhonen <mikak@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 21 Jan 2000 dnh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

>On Wed, 19 Jan 2000, Tobias Brox wrote:
>
>> > Russian cities:
>> >    "Petersburg" should be "St. Petersburg".
>> 
>> Maybe an idea moving the city some steps behind, also - it's a relatively
>> "new" city, built by Peter the great in the 17th century if I'm not
>> mistaken - and named "Saint Petersburg" so he could keep his name on the
>> city and still get support from the church.
>> 
>> ATOH, it seems to me the common sorting rule is "greatest cities first",
>> not "oldest cities first".  Does anybody have opinions on this?
>
>I think it should be oldest cities first....
>They way the terrain turned out in the real world does not mean much in
>Freeciv =)
>Just a thought....

An alternative approach with respect to the order of the cities was given
some time ago, you may have a look at the archives at

        http://arch.freeciv.org/freeciv-dev-199910/msg00030.html

There is even a perl script available to do the job in the same thread. See

        http://arch.freeciv.org/freeciv-dev-199910/msg00074.html

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        Mika    
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