[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Alternative nation dialog

[Reinier Post <rp@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 04:57:47PM -0400, Mark Metson wrote:
> 
> 
> On Thu, 28 Feb 2002, Raahul Kumar wrote:
> 
> > Yes, but as I said above, having hundreds of civs means nothing if there is 
> > no
> > real difference between them. Better to have 4 different civs than 400
> > identical
> > ones with city name lists and flags the only differences.
> 
> Do you think it is encoded in the genes of e.g. North American tribes that
> in many centuries time when taken over by (and perhaps interbred with)
> white folk they will mysteriously come up with radar that isn't confounded
> by the ground, thus develop a superior fighting jet?

Here we go again :-)

Raahul means that in the commercial Civs the Ai players have nation-bound
characteristics.  The characteristics can be added to Freeciv.  I agree
with Daniel though that it's better to separate them from the choice
of nation.  Freeciv is very much a multiplayer, multinationality game
and people may want to pick their nations separate from characteristics
of the associated AI player.

-- 
Reinier