[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Let's remove player name

[Gregory Berkolaiko <Gregory.Berkolaiko@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 14 Oct 2003, Christian Knoke wrote:

> On Sun, Oct 12, 2003 at 10:39:41AM -0500, Mike Kaufman wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 02:24:53PM +0200, Andreas Rјsdal wrote:
> > > On Fri, 10 Oct 2003, Per I. Mathisen wrote:
> > > > I think we ought to remove remove the concept of a 'player name'. While 
> > > > I
> > > 
> > > How about setting the default player name in the 'select nation' dialog to
> > > the name chosen for the connection? Then you could choose a real world
> > > leader if you want to.
> 
> Auto choose nation feature: If user name == common nation leader name then
> the server assigns that nation to the player, if available, and the nation
> select dialog is skipped.

Skipping it is not good.  Just open it not with a random nation but with 
the one befitting the name.  Although I must say it's more bother to code 
this than this is worth.

G.