[Freeciv-Dev] Re: [PATCH] Renaming cities. (PR#567)

[Erik Sigra <freeciv@xxxxxxx>]

Greg Wooledge wrote:
> 
> Erik Sigra (freeciv@xxxxxxx) wrote:
> 
> > Here is a solution that should fix all exploits mentioned until now:
> > * Let the server decide the official name of each city once and for
> >   all time. Such names would always be sane.
> > * Let players assign an alias for each city (friendly as well as
> >   enemy) that they want to refer to by anoter name.
> 
> Wouldn't this lead to confusion when the players talk to each other?
> 
>   Player 1: "Get your troops away from Birmingham!"
>   Player 2: "Where's that?"
>   Player 1: "East of your Lagash."
>   Player 2: "But I don't have any Lagash!"
> 
> And I don't think it would suffice for the server to try to translate
> the city names in the chat, either.  Players may misspell the city names,
> or use abbreviations that confuse the server.

If people want to discuss cities with their allies, they can just do
without changing the alias. My second solution to this is to implement a
command to exchange aliases with allies. And my third solution is to do
it the Age-of-Empires way, a Send-Position command. You select a button,
then click somewhere on the map or mini-map and the allies recieve the
position as an audial and visual signal. I hope at least one of these
solutions is acceptable for you.

> Personally, I'd just leave everything as it is. :-)

Several exploits have been discussed here. One of them is the use of
cryptic names, another could be appending "www.philipmorris.com" or
something to every city name to get sponsor money (could be a modified
client that they pay people to use, similar to getting money for
watching advertising while surfing). We wouldn't want to see either one
here would we?