[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#6183) barbarians on the poles

["Gregory Berkolaiko" <Gregory.Berkolaiko@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 19 Sep 2003, Jason Short wrote:

> On Fri, 19 Sep 2003, Mike Kaufman wrote:
> > I don't like special checks like this because maybe I want to play with an
> > all arctic/tundra map. Are barbarians then screwed?
> 
> It should be ruleset-controlled.  But unless you change the ruleset, not
> only will barbarians be screwed but unless the code deals with the special
> case you will be too.
> 
> jason

If you are talking about finding starting positions, you are right, the 
present code won't find any, but there is a patch by Karen which fixes 
that.  I am awaiting the next edition of the patch, but she disappeared as 
usual.  The ref is 5438.

G.