[Freeciv-Dev] Re: [PATCH] New option in server.

[Martin Olveyra <bj0v@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, Stepan Roh wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, Nicolas Brunel wrote:
> 
> > > I would suggest "killstack", or maybe "killsquare" or "killtile",
> > > (compare existing option "killcitizen"; a "stack" being a group 
> > > of units on the same square).
> > > 
> > > (Or should this be a ruleset option instead?  Hard to say.)
> > 
> > It's a civ1 and civ2 rule. Rules should be put in ruleset.
> > This option (rule) will help the AI which often loses stacks of units.
> > Another point, with this rule (option), fortress are useless and it would
> > better to disallow their use. A problem I see is that we will have big
> > stacks of units fighting big stacks of units. In the current version,
> > usually, we can know what we are fighting. With a stack only the unit of
> > the top is visible. It will be very hard to get rid of a stack of units
> > on a mountain or a hill.
> 
> There was a materials thread which metamorphed into Colonisation off-topic
> (I think). If someone wants to implement Colonization rules, one of them
> is disabling killstack. So it should be a rule.
> 
> Have a nice day.
> 
> Stepan Roh

I strongly think this feature must be implemented as a server option. Other
way, you must have access to the data files, which not always will happen (for
example, if you are playing over the network using the traditional metaservers).
Even if you had access to such files, if you want to change this option you
had to edit the ruleset (not practical) or have an extra copy of rulesets which
differs from original in just one option, and, to load such rulesets, you have
to change a server option anyway.