[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#7095) No Capital, and can't build one..

["Raimar Falke" <i-freeciv-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=7095 >

On Sun, Jan 25, 2004 at 11:43:19PM -0800, Jason Short wrote:
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> <URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=7095 >
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> > [jdorje - Sat Jan 24 03:29:08 2004]:
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> > > [jrincayc - Fri Jan 23 21:23:12 2004]:
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> > > It could instead add a sell message which defaults to nothing.  
> > > Then add the sell message to the buildings.ruleset for palace.
> > > This has the advantage of allowing any building to have a sell message.
> > 
> > Indeed.  I suppose this may be marginally cleaner.
> 
> Here's a new version with (untested) support for other clients.

I'm against this patch. The intent is really too narrow. The target of
the audience are people which are:
 - new to the game AND
 - sell a building sounds important like palace AND
 - are surprised that it has negative consequences.

Also the patch only shows the message in a dialog which is shown very
shortly and be sure overlooked.

One better approach would be to show the general help message in a
tooltip for items in the improvement list. Much more general.

        Raimar

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