[Freeciv-Dev] Re: New Nations

[Tomasz Wegrzanowski <maniek@xxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Feb 28, 2000 at 10:17:45AM +0000, Robert Brady wrote:
> It is no worse than having Romans/French or Americans/Sioux.

Offtopic:
Why not rename Americans to Yankies ?

> I might make a patch so that when people are choosing nations, it is
> impossible for them to choose a nation with the same capital as the other
> nation. Possibly some more refinement could be done. This would stop the
> combinations British/English, Soviets/Russians, Italians/Romans, but allow
> Italians/French.
> 
> If I did that, would you cease objecting to the Italians?

Why to add unnecesary complications ?
Data should be clean as-is.

If you really need Italians, you should split nations.ruleset to epochs
as was proposed not so long time ago.

> > > +  "Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch",
> > 
> > The above was a joke of course ?
> 
> That is a real Welsh town.

I'm sure it will segfault either client or player's brain.