[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Nations policy

[Tomasz Wegrzanowski <maniek@xxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Feb 15, 2000 at 05:17:46PM -0800, Steven Burnap wrote:
> At 03:36 PM 2/15/00 +0100, you wrote:
> >Having two cities with the same name on map is a big problem.
> >And this will occur if two civs are allowed to use the same name.
> >It can be solved by altering spelling of Greek and Egyptian Thebes.
> >It was done this way in civ 1.
> 
> The pay versions of Civ 1 and Civ 2 would both run find and work ok with
> multiple cities of the same name.  The predefined lists didn't work this way,
> but you could rename all your cities the same thing if you wanted.

Both server and ai use numerical id to distinguish cities.
This is only problem for human players. You see city name
in some message and you don't know which of two cities is
it talking about. Or worse - if one player see only one Thebae,
second player only another. This makes huge miscomunication.