[Freeciv-Dev] Re: alpha patch to provide wonder creation eye-candy

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On Sun, 10 Dec 2000, John Heidemann wrote:

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> I never heard from anyone about these questions.
> Is there any interest in my patch to add graphics for when wonders are
> created?  I'm happy to finish it off (add code for it in
> buildings.ruleset), but there's not much point if no one's interested.

I like adding the graphics. My main interest is in the strategies of the
game, but I like products that are 'polished'. Even though the hardcore
players might turn this feature off (to speed up play - seen the graphics
before), nice graphics might attract more players, and is good, isn't it?

> The final version of the patch is at
> <http://www.isi.edu/~johnh/PUBLIC/build_graphics.diff>
> with a basic set of graphics at
> <http://www.isi.edu/~johnh/PUBLIC/build.tar.gz>.
> I have graphics from the web for most of the wonders, but it will be
> work finding out which of them are freely available, so I'll do that
> after I know the code's useful.
>
>    -John Heidemann

JK