[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Patch: Unique city names

[Reinier Post <rp@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 11:44:31PM +0100, Raimar Falke wrote:

> > The following patch prevents player from naming or renaming city to
> > name that is already in use by that particular player. [...]

> You should make this settable by a server variable.  [...]

I think the patch is already an improvement without it.
I've never seen a player that intentionally had two cities
with the same name except with the specific purpose to cheat
in this way.

> You may think
> about disallowing city names on a global base. E.g. that there is only
> one city called "Paris" and if this city is build by the Americans it
> can't be build by the French.

That is also fine.  However that means the Persians can decide to build
Paris as their first city, depriving the French of their usual capital.

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Reinier