[Freeciv-Dev] Re: [FreeCiv-Cvs] per: Add new feature to server: unique citynames. A...

["Per I. Mathisen" <per@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 13 Aug 2002, Jason Short wrote:
> I know this was discussed when the patch was originally proposed, but I
> missed it when a final solution was decided...
>
> Under setting 3, how are things handled if two nations share a city
> name?Note that this will eventually happen if the list of names gets
> long enough, not just from overlapping civilizations.Just as one
> example, many American cities are named after English ones (although I
> don't know if any are in the American ruleset yet).

I didn't follow this discussion. From looking at the source, it appears in
such a case, neither player would be allowed to use this name.

However, I do remember that we discussed and agreed that having cities
called the same in rulesets was a bad thing and should be avoided.

Yours
Per