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

["Morgan Jones" <morgan.jones@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> 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.

Yeah, I know, it's a purely cosmetic feature.  But I thought I'd throw
the idea out just in case someone had some spare time and was looking
for something mindless to do :)

No hurry.

I've just started learning C, so I guess if nobody feels like taking up the
challenge I can have my patch ready in time for version 1.25 or
something... 

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