[Freeciv-Dev] Re: yet another console cleanup (PR#1749)

[Reinier Post <rp@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 11:07:14AM +0200, Raimar Falke wrote:

> > maxplayers option
> 
> Either we remove it completely (also remove game.max_players and
> *_MAX_PLAYERS) and not just the option or we make it hard to use
> (increase the level which is required to hack).
> 
>       Raimar

I think we need to find out why it is there in the first place,
and provide that functionality.

As far as I can see, its purpose was to allow automatic game starting.
But this is not desirable when multiple players are involved.
So perhaps it would be good to have a /se tautostartonconnect option
that starts the game on the very first connection.

I once had a (broken) patch that allowed this,
by adding an /on command, so you could say  /on join start.
Perhaps that is prettier, too.  It also allows things like
/on join cmdlevel info and /on start cmdlevel info, but it
may not be desirable to have this much programmability.

-- 
Reinier