[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Creating dead player after the game has started.

[Ilkka Lehtoranta <ilkleht@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 14 Oct 2002, Raimar Falke wrote:

> Traditionally "observer" means the first. But I agree that we also
> need the second. It would be some kind of root observer: can look into
> any city, report and so on for every player. A huge kind of
> information. To break this into smaller pieces we _may_ want to model
> this with a two dimensional matrix: first dimension are the players
> which I can observe, second is the kind of thing I can observe (map,
> cities, research, ...).

Just one thing... some players could cheat this way and spy enemy nations
during game. This should be considered before adding observer option.


  Greets, Ilkka