[Freeciv-Dev] Re: New alliances (PR#8394)

["LoboGris" <molv@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=8394 >

Per I. Mathisen wrote:

>
>I don't know how to implement this in any way that is not hideously
>complicated. How does the server ask the player a question? And what
>happens until the player answers, or if he does not, or if the turn times
>out before he does? No, I do not want to go there.
>
>  - Per
>
IMHO there is no immediate need of add such a feature. It can be left 
for further development and anyone can take the task. But I think your 
approach can be considered in the following simple and scalable (i 
think) manner:

- After the war declaration by the leader, the dipl. state changes 
inmediatelly for all the members of the alliance, as actually, but the 
server remembers the previous diplomatic and trust states of each one, 
so if in the same turn, the member wants to revoke the action (for 
example, a button in the players dialog, so to avoid an explicit asking 
from the server) all the previous dipl. and trust  states of the member 
is recovered, except those with the other members of the alliance, which 
will change from "alliance" to "peace", for example.
- The button in players dialog to recover the previous status is only 
available in the same turn of war declaration.