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

[Raimar Falke <hawk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Nov 24, 2001 at 05:56:31PM -0300, Miguel Farah F. wrote:
>  Raimar Falke [23/11/2001 10:17] dijo/said:
> >On Fri, Nov 23, 2001 at 10:34:45AM +0200, Teemu Kurppa wrote:
> >> Raimar Falke wrote:
> >[...]
> >> I thought this, but I think this can be misused by experienced players
> >> to gather information about other players. I.e. you play against
> >> Americans, you intentionally try to name your cities with American
> >> default city names. If other (often less experienced) player is using
> >> default names, you get information, how many cities he have. 
> >
> >One solution maybe that you aren't allow to choose a name which is in
> >the name list of another nation.
> 
> That creates a problem: let's say that I'm playing the Spanish against
> the Catalan - both city lists have "Barcelona" and "Tarragona" (and
> others). Why should one player be allowed to use those cities and the
> other not?

In such case none of the two are allow to choose "Barcelona" or
"Tarragona". Keep in mind that this is primary against "cheater".

        Raimar

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