[Freeciv-Dev] Barbarian Leader, etc. (was: Bug Report v.1.10.0)

["Mike Jing" <miky40@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> From: Jeff Mallatt <jjm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 14:01:13 -0500
>
> Hum.  They all look correct to me, except for obsolete_by (which, as the 
> comment says, is an ugly hack).
This has the interesting side effect that a barbarian leader can be upgraded 
to a settler and be used to found a new city.  Someone has actually done 
this, and it wasn't me.  The same someone once almost totally destroyed a 
new player by playing as barbarians.  Sure you have only limited control 
over the units and you can't produce any units that are not allowed for 
barbarians (eg. settler) because you cannot toggle off the AI, but it can be 
annoying nevertheless.
On the other hand, barbarians are very handy for observers.  Until a real 
observer mode is implemented (as a server option), watching a game as a 
barbarian is not bad at all.  Maybe we should cut off the controls to 
barbarians completely so that you cannot mess with what the AI does.
Finally, in order to find out who are playing in a certain game, you have to 
go to the metaserver webpage.  One player has suggested that it should 
probably be put into the client.
Mike

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