[Freeciv-Dev] Re: savegame format

[Mike Kaufman <kaufman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Jun 17, 2002 at 10:33:42PM +0200, G. Dyke wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm pretty new to Freeciv (a couple of weeks) and although I'd like to help
> with the development some time, I've got a bit more understanding of the
> game to get (not to mention learning C properly)
> 
> I've been trying to create a map of Switzerland (it looks a bit stupid : all
> surrounded by sea ;-) I was hoping to use civworld, but I haven't got a unix
> at home and at school we don't have gtk2.0 installed (and sysadmin probably
> suspected my reasons for wanting it installed - he told me I'd have enough
> room to install my own stuff next year).

I'll let someone else comment on the rest: why no unix at home? dual boot.
civworld needs gtk1.2 rather than 2.0 so if school's got that, you're in
luck. I have thought more than briefly about providing a gtk2 client since
gtk2 shouldn't have much problem with 1.2 code.

Perhaps someone who knows something about compiling gtk on windows could
provide a windows civworld binary?

-mike

> 
> So I set about hacking the savefile format (which is coming along quite
> nicely - up to a point - another problem being resisting the temptation to
> peek into an ongoing game we've been playing during lunch). I'd like to
> specify my own specials tiles, but when I civserver -file game, it tells me
> that map.u and map.l are unused. I suspect this has something to do with
> this line
> 
> [savefile]
> options="1.7 startoptions spacerace2 rulesets diplchance_percent startpos
> riversoverlay"
> 
> what should I add? (I already added startpos and riversoverlay) Has anyone
> got their own doc on what all the things in this file do (they are written
> in English after all). In the archives, it appears that the only solution is
> to read the code, but I'm afraid I can't do that yet.
> 
> I was also wondering how to join a game as an observer, I can't seem to find
> anything about it in the manual.
> 
> Greg
> 
> P.S attached is the part of switzerland I have so far; if your server
> crashes when you start, remove the lines between t069 and n001