[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#8749) Scenario fixes

["Mike Kaufman" <kaufman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=8749 >

On Sat, May 15, 2004 at 05:39:23PM -0700, Jason Short wrote:
> 
> > I guess my only concern is the case where I create a scenario with X
> > players and X start positions, but on game load I change maxplayers to X+1.
> > Where does the X+1th player get his starting position from?
> 
> You can't do that (now, or under our patches).  I have no idea what 
> happens if you try.

yes, that's what I'm saying. why shouldn't one be able to do that?
 
> >>* New scenarios will have nations listed for start positions.  However 
> >>in most cases not all nations will be listed.  So the remaining players 
> >>must be assigned to the remaining nations.  This may be improved on 
> >>later by limiting the nations to just those that are listed.
> > 
> > I'm not seeing this patch saving the nations to new savegames.
> 
> There are no start positions in new games.  Only in pre-generated scenarios.

umm. How you expect that one gets that sort of information into these
pre-generated scenarios?

-mike