[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Valutas patch

[Tomasz Wegrzanowski <maniek@xxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Feb 27, 2000 at 08:48:23AM -0500, Mike Jing wrote:
> Also, the Chinese currency is "yuan", not "juan".  However, "juans" or 

my typo

> "yuans", it just sounds awfully awkward to me.  For one thing, there is no 
> special plural form in Chinese, so "yuans" just sounds wrong.  OK, so I am 
> biased.  But gold has been used for thousands of years, long before mordern 
> currencies appeared.  What's wrong with gold?

Currency (IB-group-metal-based) was very early invention,
much earlier that flags at least.

> Now it's getting even more complicated.  But as long as I can turn it off 
> (please?), I really should not complain.

actually, the only way to turn this off is change all `valuta=foo' in
nations.ruleset to `valuta=credits' or `valuta=gold'.
It seems reasonable to be able to use one currency for the whole
world. This will be surely barbarian currency, but how to tell it to
server ? By a rule or server option ?