[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Improved game starting version 6 [patch] [ready, IMO] (PR#1215)

[Jason Short <vze2zq63@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Daniel Sjölie wrote:

> On 2002-01-14 22:32:57, Per I. Mathisen wrote:
> > - the client attempts to connect to server immediately, and gives error
> > message (confusing). you need to find the "start game" button to start
> > the game (bad design). IMHO it should loop and try discretely to
> > start the server until it succeeds or times out.
Maybe I'm missing something, but connecting to a server and starting the 
game are not the same thing.  Normally you would (1) start a server (2) 
connect to it (3) set any options and (4) start the game.  The 
connection dialog aims at eliminating (1), (2), and part of (3), but not 
(4).
If we did auto-start after connecting, the code would generally be of no 
use in other cases - that is, we couldn't use it to control multiplayer 
servers, since we would have no handling of the pre-start case.
jason