[Freeciv-Dev] Re: tolerance, political-correctness, and fascism

["SamBC" <sambc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Bearing in mind I don't really do freeciv development, just try to keep
abreast of what everyone else is doing...

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Reed Meyer
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> Right, basically it was just intended for scenarios.
> I assume that a CSA "nation", if submitted, would also be intended only
> for scenarios.

I would hope so

>
> I hope that the "fantasy" nations (Dunedain, etc.) also ultimately only
> show up in scenarios (or modpacks) -- they really don't belong (obviously)
> in the same category as real-life nations, either past or present.

I would agree there, but they are utterly harmless. We have seen that
feelings will run high where some subjects are discussed, and Nazism is one
of them.

Also, Dunedain & Mordor do not cause any clashes, while Nazi nation would.

>
> I submitted the Nazi "nation" (along with the other ones) to be included
> into the general distribution so I wouldn't have to maintain the darn
> things every time there was a major code update.  Is it REALLY true that
> the code is becoming stable now with regard to nation rulesets?  (For
> example, actually, I hope it's accepted the proposal made by others that
> the flag/shield of each nation be stripped from flags/shields/etc.xpm and
> put directly into the nation.ruleset of said nation.)

Nations.ruleset seems pretty stable format now. I know of nothing (except
that flags thing) which would change it being currently discussed (even the
grouping idea of Tomasz's could be external to the files).

I personally disagree with the idea of inclusion in rulesets as that would
imply that they get sent to the player from the server, which is a
transmission bloat. However, each player could be sent them all (for the
current game) on connection, and it wouldn't be too bad.

>
> BTW, what's "liase"?

Unless you mean that's a misspelling, to liase is to communicate, provide a
link between two or more groups, who are working separately over a common
topic (one definition anyway)

SamBC