[Freeciv-Dev] Re: freeciv bug with WRITE command in civserver.exe (PR#795)

[Derek Ray <lorimer@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 10:42 PM 06/03/2001 +0200, Thue wrote:
> On Sunday 03 June 2001 22:07, lorimer@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > When using the WRITE command in the server to write out a ruleset, it
> > writes the following two variables to the file that it shouldn't:
> >
> > seed
> > randseed
> >
> > This is bad since when you later start the server with the --read
> > (filename) command line option, it then reads IN those variables - which
> > result in a completely identical map and starting position for the game.
> >
> > I managed a workaround by deleting the two lines from the (filename) that I
> > wrote out; simple enough for now.
>
> Though you would sometimes want to have those saved, most of the time you
> don't. So if nobody disagrees I will remove them from the output.
OK, I can see where it's possible that you sometimes DO want them saved - 
so you can "repeat" a game with the same setup, for whatever reason.  How 
about this:
WRITE command *will* save both variables.
READ command and --read argument won't read the variables back in, though.

This way, the variables get saved somewhere, and you can always manually 
adjust them.  Which reminds me, after using my workaround, I noticed that 
the --read argument set both seed and randseed to 0 when it didn't 
encounter them in the file.  Oops?  =)