[Freeciv-Dev] Re: It's a game already!

[Tomasz Wegrzanowski <maniek@xxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Feb 15, 2000 at 11:21:11AM -0500, Daniel Burrows wrote:
>   There's a misconception (at least, I think it's a misconception, someone
> correct me if I'm wrong) that I've seen cropping up from time to time on this
> list; in the last week or so it's gotten totally out of hand.  This is the 
> idea
> that Freeciv is in some significant way a model of reality or of historical
> developments of civilizations; that it has any more to do with national 
> politics
> than chess has to do with battlefield tactics.  Not only is this idea false 
> and
> generative of a huge amount of needless discussion, but it's actually 
> dangerous
> in the long run to the *GAME* of Freeciv.

This discusion was not about realism but about consistency,
which is good thing for every game.