[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Todo-list in www.freeciv.org totally out of date!

[Ben Webb <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Jun 02, 2002 at 03:37:24PM +0300, Joona Kiiski wrote:
> Just wanted to point out that Todo-list (www.freeciv.org/todo.html) is
> totally out of date!

I wouldn't go so far as to say that.

> * Disasters
>     Floods, droughts, famine, earthquake, meteorites, tornado,
>     volcano, hurricane & terrorist activity.

        Volcanoes, floods and droughts (at least, the land<->sea terrain
transformations) are needed for SMAC compatibility, i.e.
http://freecivac.sourceforge.net/.

> * Client-side API:
>     Designing an API to separate the client code into
>     front-end UI code and back-end comms code. Having
>     this is essential to the future of client-side AI's,
>     and also to solving the client integrity problem.
> 
> Isn't this exactly what agents are for!

        Yes, but there's still some way to go before agents can replace
the current AI.

> * Run-time scripting:
>    Scripting would be a very useful Freeciv extension.
> 
> Agents, agents, agents. I think we are no longer interested in GUILE or
> LISP or whatever...

        Perhaps not LISP, but scripting remains a target, particularly
for FreecivAC. There are plenty of things other than AI that a simple
scripting language would be useful for; in particular, the rulesets for
SMAC compatibility (I'm thinking particularly of its "compound" unit
handling) are not presently very far removed from a scripting language.

        Ben
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