[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Nations classification again

[Tomasz Wegrzanowski <maniek@xxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Aug 08, 2000 at 04:32:28PM -0400, Dmitriy Genzel wrote:
> > >
> > > I always wonder why some people try to stop others from doing things that
> > > don't harm them in any way ...
> >
> > I just don't understand why anybody wants to use it. Do you think anybody 
> > wants
> > to play a "white men only"-game?

Maybe ... if you think it's useless, you don't need to use this.
IMHO, wars inside ethnic/geographical group can be more funny.
It's not just random bavarian + spanish + persian + indian + latvian + 
carthaginian,
but some more coherent set.

> I agree. It perhaps makes sense to group on geographical or
> historical proximity, but not on race, since that is more or less
> irrelevant to most people in a situation like that. Hopefully one would
> want to play against different cultures (which happen to have different
> styles), just to avoid boredom.
> 
> It might be interesting to play with, say, only former soviet republics,
> of which I think there are already 5 (unless I missed something), or
> former Yugoslav republics, etc. Or, with participants of WWII, or WWI, or
> Napoleonic Wars, etc - but this is more suitable for scenario-type
> situation.

Soviets are nice. Added class soviet to next version.