[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Suggestion / Ideas

["Per I. Mathisen" <per@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 1 Apr 2003, Olivier Davy wrote:
> my borther is a fairly fan of Civ (more than 10 years of gaming).
> Yersterday, I saw him freeciv (only known by geeks like me, unfortunatelly).
> He was REALLY impressed by the work done.
>
> As I explain him what free source code and developping means, he has
> some suggestions that he wait for long :
> 1 since he plays often the same way, is it possible to create and save a
> list of task for a city (ordered constructions of building, improvments
> and units), that will be load each time a new city is created, and thus
> not annoying the player with fillnig the list.

There are already 'worklists', but they may not be working exactly as they
should. Please look at them and suggest what should be done differently.

> 2 can triggers be put on a city to build construction (I think this
> point is harder to develop).

I don't understand. What is 'construction'?

> 3 what about cheating functions on the server to enable a player to
> explore all the possibilities of the game (remodelling the word and civ
> during the game, money, knowledge). My brother and I are used to use it
> in order to create new strategies.

There is civworld, but it is only available as a separate patch to the
source code, and only for gtk1 (unix).

> 4 Is there a civ map of the real world ? wherecan t be downloaded

Yes, coming with the game, in data/scenarios/

> 5 Would you like to add all the real civilizations (all the countries,
> and nations) ?

Yes, I guess so.

> If you are interested by more of his suggestions, it will be a pleasure
> to write to you, and why not developping, to improve the best game in
> the univers !

Keep them coming, thanks!

  - Per