[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Is the number of improvements limited?

[Ben Webb <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 15 Mar 2001, Miguel Farah F. wrote:

> As you know, I am working on the Future Tech modpack. I finally got off
> the initial design stage, and proceeded on: I wrote the new
> units.ruleset and new techs.ruleset without any problems.
>
> However, after I wrote buildings.ruleset and tested it, I got the
> following error message from the server (which aborted):
>
> 0: Bad number of buildings: 75 (./future_buildings.ruleset)
(etc.)


        Unfortunately, both the numbers of buildings/improvements and
their effects are hard-coded into FreeCiv at present (see also the recent
discussion re: the Lighthouse wonder). Although there has been some work
on "generalised" improvements, at present all the code does is read in the
rulesets and store the data. I personally am working on rectifying this
(as part of the - largely inactive - FreecivAC project at
http://bellatrix.pcl.ox.ac.uk/~stewart/fcindex.html) so would be
interested to hear of any similar efforts...

        Ben
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