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

["Miguel Farah F." <miguel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

 Raimar Falke [25/11/2001 04:58] dijo/said:
>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".

Isn't this too much of a restriction?

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