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Subject: [Freeciv-Dev] Re: suggestion: myth about freeciv
From: Andreas Røsdal <andrearo@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 08 Feb 2003 13:04:49 +0100

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



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