[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#3621) Freeciv 1.14.0 Changes Nations in Saved Games

["Raimar Falke" <rf13@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 10:59:34AM -0800, freeciv-dev-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 
> In when a game is saves in version 1.14.0 and loaded later, some of
> players may find that they are a different nation than they were when
> the game was saved.  (E.g., the Koreans may become Dutch or Bavarian.)
> 
> No action is need to produce this other that to save the game, stop the
> server, and then resart using the -f flag.  However, nations near the
> beginning of the list seem less likely to change.
> 
> (I've noticed that not all nations are included every time -- could it
> be that as different nations set are selected by the server that some
> nations are replaced or else displaced up or down the list?)

This is a known issue. It was reported by ESR (who also wrote the
patch which caused this problem) at the end of January. No solution or
patch was proposed yet.

        Raimar

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