[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Alternative nation dialog

[Raahul Kumar <raahul_da_man@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- Reinier Post <rp@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 11:33:31PM -0800, Raahul Kumar wrote:
> 
> > It's ok. I think that Freeciv has too many nations. I mean, the
> Lithuanians,
> > Koreans and Polish civs are nobodies. They never had a crack at world
> > domination.
> 
> I don't know about Korea, but Poland and Lithuania were once the largest
> nations in Europe.
> 
> You have to be very careful when talking about individual nations.
> That's why I dislike the grouping idea, too.
> 
> > The nation list should be trimmed down to countries that were
> > actually military, or scientifically dominant  or owned large chunks of the
> > world.
> 
> That leaves 'England', 'Great-Britain', 'Russia' and 'Soviet Union'.
> With 'China' and 'India' if we go by population.

Not quite so few. Like I said, historically. India and China make the list
technologically as well. They are both throughout history and in modern times
the scientific and commercial centres of the world.


> 
> For me, the more nations the merrier, and to group them is just
> begging for trouble.
> 

I don't see what the problem with grouping is. Click on South America,
get a list of all South American Civs. 

> -- 
> Reinier
> 


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