[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Nations policy

[Lalo Martins <lalo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Feb 14, 2000 at 09:06:45PM +0100, Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote:
> 
> We should not allow nations newer than 500 years.

Disagree.

> Proposed Policy, (please comment) :
> 
> 1) Every nation has at least 2 and at most 8 leaders

Disagree. Too many leaders is not a problem, AFAICS.

> 2) Every nation has unique and easyly distinguishable flag.
>    If possible the same as state that is associated with the nation.

Agree.

> 3) Every nations is called after first historical name.
>    If possible NOT from state name, but tribe name.

Half-agree, see below.

> 4) City names should be unique in game, and there should be
>    enough cities to not need to use global nameset early.
>    No upper bound for city amount is set.

Agree.


I propose a better sollution; include a ``modern'' and an
``ancient'' nationset with the standard game. The ``modern''
has Italians, English, Mexicans, Iraqians and so on. The
``ancient'' has Romans, Celts, Aztecs, Babilonians. End of
problem, everyone has their way and whoever runs the server has
the power to make the decision.


Another possible solution (altough a bit of a trip) is to allow
a nation to change names and flags trough time or with
government type. And of course offer a default.

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