[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Too few starts and MAX_NUM_PLAYERS (PR#364)

[Thue Janus Kristensen <thue@xxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 06 May 2000, David Pfitzner wrote:
> With sufficiently old savegames, or with the scenarios in
> freeciv/data/scenario, cvs server fails to load with error:
> 
> 0: Too few starts 14 (need at least 30).
> 
> This is from server/maphand.c: map_startpos_load(), due to
> recently increased MAX_NUM_PLAYERS.
> 
> Several things to fix:
> 
> - The provided scenarios should ideally have more starts, corresponding
>   to the new nations.  (Would be nice to have named start positions, ie 
>   with nation name, rather than numbered positions...)
> 
> - Should load old savegames and scenarios anyway, and limit the
>   number of initial players if necessary, or whatever.  Current 
>   behaviour is particularly silly for non-scenario savegames, since 
>   there the start positions are not really needed and are just 
>   historical anyway.
> 
> -- David

Trivial patch attached. It just accepts maps with too few starts
(with a comment), filling in with default unused 0,0 starts.

How do you edit/create scenarios? (yes, I know it would be just as easy to
just edit the text files to ad dthe extra empty starts, which I will
do when I commit this patch)

-Thue

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