[Freeciv-Dev] Re: three little suggestions

[Jeff Mallatt <jjm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 2000/03/14 08:48 , Daniel Sjolie wrote:
>On 2000-03-14 14:25:52, Thue Janus Kristensen wrote:
>> On Mon, 13 Mar 2000, Tuomas Airaksinen wrote:
>> > 1)Whether to show or not to show the shadowed fog of war in client
>> > should be optional (set from local options dialog).
>> 
>> Would anybody really want this? It would be easy enought to do
>
>No!
>That is - You can't have the ability to turn fog of war off in the
>client... That would be a very real and unfair advantage...

I believe the suggestion is to turn on/off just the drawing of the fog
stipple -- not actually allowing a client to see units anywhere.

(BTW, I always want to see the fog.)

>To be able to turn it off in the server might be ok...
>I wouldn't want to use it myself but options are always nice...

You can.  It's the "fogofwar" option.

jjm