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

[Christian Knoke <ChrisK@xxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 12:55:33PM +0100, Andreas Kemnade wrote:
>  > 
> At least the save command should go through the pipe because the
> client will display a file selection dialog to select the file. Same
> for the (future) load command and -f commandline option. 
> IMHO these two commands are the most important commands. So this
> should be implemented first. How to load a saved game is really a FAQ.

Why not get rid of filenames? We have already:
  saveturns variable
  savename variable
  seed and randseed variable
  a good and detailed file naming mechanism
Suggestion: only have a unique name for each game. The server
is capable of parsing the savegame directory and offering the
client a collection of game names plus a collection of savegames/
versions/years for each game.

Just an idea.

> > 3) make the server able to load games after it has started up.
> That's really another task.

Is this so difficult?

> 
> Greetings
> Andreas Kemnade

Christian

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