[Freeciv-Dev] suggestion on how to improve the game

[Lukasz Szelag <lszelag@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

I have one suggestion that would improve this great game.

I think that adding the ability to notify players about events (such as a new 
player has joined)
in the pregame state would be an excellent idea. Preferably it could be done be 
displaying a popup
window. I have been playing this game many times and from this perspective I 
can tell that it is
very common that once a player connects to the server he is waiting for more 
players to join. In
the meantime he usually does some other tasks and may not nottice that another 
player(s) joins the
game. People who join the game usually exit if they don't see any "activity" in 
the chat window
(or nobody is responding). I'm using Linux and multiple workspaces and usually 
start freeciv on
its own workspace. When I'm doing other things (in a different workspace) I may 
not notice when
players join and possibly miss the fact that the game has been started by 
someone already. For that
reason adding the ability to subscribe to various events (as for now I can see 
"a player joined"
event very appropriate) would be a nice feature. When I'm on a different 
workspace I could see a
popup window and immediately switch to freeciv.

Luk