[Freeciv-Dev] Re: suggestion: myth about freeciv

[Andreas Røsdal <andrearo@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jason Dorje Short wrote:

> Andreas Røsdal wrote:
>
> > Raimar Falke wrote:
>
> > > Now about the difficult task: some people don't like it if the Myth is
> > > shown. Either display doc/PEOPLE or some new written file.
> > >  
> > Sure. Then doc/PEOPLE has to be read from file,
> > and some algorithm has to split it into chars that fit
> > on a line. Any ideas?
>
> It would be nice to let the tileset specify what file is to be used. 
> However, this runs into problems with translation (it's hard to have 
> it done automatically).  Another alternative is to let the tileset 
> specify the string itself that is to be used for the intro.  Here the 
> string would look something like the nation legends from 
> data/nation/*.ruleset.
Good idea, that way modpacks could have it's own intro.

> IMO the current 'myth' text is quite uninspiring, and doc/PEOPLE is 
> even worse.  So we need someone to write something exciting :-).  Even 
> without this, the code could still be good if it let the tileset 
> specify what to do - so that once somebody writes something cool later 
> the tilesets will be able to take advantage of the code.  But we will 
> need at least one tileset to demonstrate the feature.
Yes, the myth is too long...

Andreas