[Freeciv-Dev] Re: More imporved game starting [patch]

[Jason Short <vze2zq63@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Daniel L Speyer wrote:

> Here is an improved version of Andreas's patch from back in October to
> control the server from the client.  This version supports multiple
> simultaneous games by checking which ports are available.

I never tried it out before, but now that I do it seems quite excellent. 
 Even something this simple could probably double freeciv's userbase.

> I'm thinking about illiminating the seperate server window, and making the
> chatline take that functionality (just give the starting user cmdlevel
> hack).  What do other people think?

At first, I thought that would be a good idea - but then I noticed the 
"start game" and "end game" buttons on the server window.  If this is 
expanded to include fuller (possibly even "full") control through the 
GUI, that'd be much better.
BTW: what does "end game" do?  It seems to just immediately terminate 
the server.  This is not very user-friendly.
Here's another idea: when you load a game, it should first load the game 
to the server and then popup a list of choices for the player name. 
This would be far superior IMO.  Unfortunately, this might be very hard 
to implement.
A word of advice: submit it to the bug tracking system.  I'll try to 
give it a more full review when I have a chance, although I'm not very 
familiar with this code.
jason