[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#3594) viking.ruleset

["andrearo@xxxxxxxxxxxx" <andrearo@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Andreas Røsdal wrote:

> Gregory Berkolaiko wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 5 Mar 2003, Ragnar Ouchterlony wrote:
>>
>>> On Mon, 3 Mar 2003, andrearo@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello,
>>>> I've updated viking.ruleset with natural city names, and added some
>>>> cities and leaders.
>>>> Any comments?
>>>>
>>> I must say that this doesn't look like a Viking nation, but rather 
>>> like a
>>> Norwegian nation.
>>>
>>> If it really is the historical Vikings that should be in this 
>>> nation, then
>>> modern Norwegian prime ministers such as Jens Stoltenberg and Bondevik
>>> shouldn't be there at all. Also, there should be Viking cities and 
>>> rulers
>>> from the Vikings that went to the east (into Russia and 
>>> Constantinople and
>>> even farther east) and not only from the Norwegian parts of 
>>> Scandinavia.
>>>   
>>
>>
>> Yeah, I wouldn't mind seeing Rurik and maybe even Oleg and Igor among 
>> the Viking rules.
>>
> What do you think about these changes? (attached):
> -viking-era rulers only
> -natural city names
> -remove Rollo, since it's a duplicate
> -I also thought about using a flag that possibly represents the 
> viking/scandinavian
> countries better, since the flag was used in the union between Norway 
> and Sweden in
> 19th century. Maybe it could be used in the flag_alt option in the 
> ruleset? I drew it based on
> http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/no-se-jk.html
>
> Andreas R. 


This is the correct flag.  Sorry.

Andreas R.