[Freeciv-Dev] Re: "Historian Publishes!" message and server side variables "rivers" and "grass"

[Raimar Falke <hawk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 09:30:26PM -0500, Lukasz Szelag wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I've just checked the latest snapshot (10/15) and have one suggestion and
> one bug report.
> 
> 1) I think that it would be a good idea to allow to set message options
> ("Message Options" window) for "Historian Publishes!" message.
> 
> 2) I noticed that setting server side variables "rivers" and "grass"
> doesn't work as expected. For "rivers" the max value is 1000 however:
> 
> /show rivers
> 
> (reads 280)
> 
> /set rivers 999
> /show rivers
> 
> (reads 590)
> 
> /set rivers 999
> /show rivers
> 
> (reads 710)
> 
> And so on... The same problem is with setting the server variable "grass".
> It looks like there is an overflow.

I can't reproduce the problem:

$ cat test.rc
/show rivers
/set rivers 100
/show rivers
/set rivers 500
/show rivers
/set rivers 789
/show rivers
/set rivers 999
/show rivers
quit
$ ./ser -r test.rc
This is the server for Freeciv version 1.12.1-devel
You can learn a lot about Freeciv at http://www.freeciv.org/
2: Loading script file: test.rc
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ means you may change the option
= means the option is on its default value
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Option        value   (min,max)      description
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
rivers        +=50    (0,1000)       Amount of river squares
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Option: rivers has been set to 100.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ means you may change the option
= means the option is on its default value
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Option        value   (min,max)      description
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
rivers        + 100   (0,1000)       Amount of river squares
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Option: rivers has been set to 500.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ means you may change the option
= means the option is on its default value
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Option        value   (min,max)      description
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
rivers        + 500   (0,1000)       Amount of river squares
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Option: rivers has been set to 789.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ means you may change the option
= means the option is on its default value
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Option        value   (min,max)      description
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
rivers        + 789   (0,1000)       Amount of river squares
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Option: rivers has been set to 999.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ means you may change the option
= means the option is on its default value
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Option        value   (min,max)      description
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
rivers        + 999   (0,1000)       Amount of river squares
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Goodbye.
$

        Raimar

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