[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#4095) Allied Victory :-)

["ChrisK@xxxxxxxx" <ChrisK@xxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Apr 28, 2003 at 10:46:01AM -0700, Gregory Berkolaiko wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Apr 2003, Per I. Mathisen wrote:
> > 
> > I'm starting to wonder whether this situation is in fact a bug. Should it
> > really be possible to declare war on an ally's ally? 
> 
> No.
> 
> > Shouldn't a
> > declaration of war on a player automatically lead to its allies also
> > declaring war on you? 
> 
> Yes.
> 
> > Isn't that much of the _point_ of an alliance?
> 
> Yes.
> 
> But the above bug would still be a bug if we substitute war for "neutral" 
> or "peace", or any "non-aliance".

Let's call it TAP transporter alliances problem.

I think alliances have to be transitive. War state is not.

So make an alliance is only allowed when all allies of A are at least
neutral with all allies of B. When the alliance actually happens, all allies
of A and B become allied to each other.

When A cancels an alliance with B, all his other alliances are cancelled,
too.

A former thread on this starts here:

http://lists.complete.org/freeciv-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx/2003/01/msg00090.html.gz

Just my 2 cents.

Christian

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