[Freeciv-Dev] Re: patch #1 (diplomats)

[Thue <thue@xxxxxxx>]

On Monday 18 June 2001 21:03, Christian Knoke wrote:
> Am Dienstag, 12. Juni 2001 18:33 schrieb Tony Stuckey:
> > On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 05:33:33PM +0200, Karl-Ingo Friese wrote:
> > > The first one is very simple. It forbids diplomats to do
> > > their actions from a ship. I just c&p it at the end of this
> > > email. We tested it one evening in a LAN game, which of cause
> > > doesnt mean that I missed something ;)
> > >
> > > Possible "Extensions":
> > >  - could be turned on or off via server variable ..
> > >  - could give an error message to the client. Right now its
> > >    "Only ground troups can take a city", "Diplomat can not
> > >    do this from a ship." might be better.
> >
> >     This definitely should default to OFF.
>
> This isn't backward compatible, using 1.11.5 clients on
> 1.11.4 servers. i.e. I'm not allowed to use diplomats
> from ships, others are.
>
> Christian

Umm, yes, sorry. The solution to that is just to wait for the 1.12.0 release 
which will disallow mixing with 1.11.x servers :).

-Thue