[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#6345) starting positions for scenarios

["Vasco Alexandre da Silva Costa" <vasc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 30 Sep 2003, Jason Short wrote:

>
> The current method of putting down starting units in scenario games is
> highly flawed.  It attempts to match up nations with starting position
> IDs so that the scenario can specify which nation goes where.  But the
> nation is referenced by ID too, so
>
> 1.  With lots of nations, it just doesn't work.
> 2.  When a new nation is added, all existing scenarios have their
> starting positions invalidated.
>
> I'm not sure how this _should_ be done, but the current method is pretty

How about storing the civ name strings with the starting positions and
matching the nations by name?

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Vasco Alexandre da Silva Costa @ Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisboa