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

["Jason Short" <jdorje@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

[morgan - Thu Aug 21 03:11:46 2003]:

> 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.
> 
> 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?

If someone will write a patch for this, I'll commit it.

The list of nations needs to be loaded from the nation rulesets
(server/ruleset.c), stored in the nation structure (common/nation.h)
(probably in string form, since converting it to a struct nation_type is
difficult while loading the rulesets - unless anyone has a better idea),
and checked when a civil war happens (not sure where this is...).  It
need not be sent to the client.

jason