[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Assertion failure in Xaw client. (PR#631)

[Marko Lindqvist <caz@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 22 Dec 2000, Asher Densmore-Lynn wrote:

> Gaute B Strokkenes wrote:
>
> > In Civ2, if you inspect a city with a diplomat/spy you gain the right
> > to inspect it whenever you feel like for the remainder of the turn.
> > So the window shouldn't go away before the end of the turn, at least.
> > It would also be nice to be able to close the window and then click on
> > the city later (during the same turn) and have it appear again.
>
> For that matter, a client that wanted to be helpful would save that data
> and let you look at it whenever you wanted to... but if it wasn't
> generated by an actual inspect action, it'd tell you how old the report
> was.

 Now you have revealed my sinister plan! This is one of the goals of my
patch 'series'.

> Three hundred turns ago might not be that helpful... but three would be,
> if there's just something you wanted to check on.

 I'll probably have to implement some server setting to set max turns
information is kept in order to keep save files in somewhat sane size.


 Caz

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