[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Civil Disorder or CIVIL DISORDER?

[Reinier Post <rp@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Apr 17, 2000 at 02:27:14PM +1000, Richard Atkins wrote:
> The messages from the server are incosistent when civil disorder starts in
> a city, and when it is continuing.
> Game: Civil disorder in %s
> Game: CIVIL DISORDER CONTINUES in %s
> 
> Since under a Democracy, even one turn of disorder can cause anarchy,

Can it, really?

  http://www.freeciv.org/lxr/source/server/cityturn.c#L1587

> should the first message be in all caps (easier to spot in the message
> dialog), or should the second be lower case too (meaning I should look
> even closer at the messages that scroll by)?

I don't think so.  The code seems to follow what I inferred from the
existing messages, namely, that one turn of civil disorder doesn't cause
anarchy.  Democracy would be practically unplayable without this rule.

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Reinier