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

[Tomasz Wegrzanowski <maniek@xxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Feb 15, 2000 at 08:39:09PM -0500, Daniel Burrows wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 16, 2000 at 02:32:29AM +0100, Tomasz Wegrzanowski was heard to 
> say:
> > This discusion was not about realism but about consistency,
> > which is good thing for every game.
> 
>   What inconsistency?  All I saw was complaints that several nations include
> the same city, and that civilizations from different time periods are thrown
> together.  This is only a problem if you're concerned with recreating actual
> historical civilizations -- ie, realism -- which Freeciv is not (although as
> someone correctly noted, it isn't totally separated from reality, only mostly)
> 
>   New Amsterdam and New York can exist side by side without problems..

Name New Amsterdam IS NOT used any more to refer to New York.
Name Danzig IS used to refer to Gdansk and will be in future.
The same as : Lipsk to refer to Leipzig, Stettin to Szczecin or
Kolonia to Koeln.