[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#5252) Wishlist: Defined civil war nations

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On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 08:11:46PM -0700, Morgan Jones wrote:
> 
> It would be great if there was an optional entry in the nation rulesets that 
> listed a number of other nations that the game would choose from (either in 
> order or randomly, not sure which is better) for a new AI player in the event 
> of civil war.
> 
> For example:
> 
> In Spanish ruleset:
> 
>    civilwar_nations = "Mexican", "Chilean", etc.
> 
> 
> In English ruleset:
> 
>    civilwar_nations = "American", "Australian", "New Zealand", etc.
> 
> 
> I realize that many of these nations were not created as a result of civil 
> war, but it would add some historical consistency to the game.  Having the 
> Aztecs breaking away from the Japanese is sort of odd.

I would say most of the nations were created by something like a civil
war ...

> Of course if civilwar_nations is empty or all the entries are already in the 
> game then it could revert back to current random method.
> 
> Any thoughts? 

Nice idea. Think the people will like a detail like that. But don't be
disappointed when no one writes code for it. Because it's not a very
important isue. 

But i think that a clean patch has high chances to be commeted very
soon.

Thomas
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