[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#8801) scenarios with too many players

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

<URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=8801 >

On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 09:50:40PM -0700, Jason Short wrote:
> 
> <URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=8801 >
> 
> Mike asked why extra players were cut when the number of players 
> exceeded those provided by the scenario.
> 
> It's pretty hard to get this to happen accidentally.  If it does happen, 
> it's because you changed the max_players yourself.  So we may want to 
> allocate all-new start positions in this case.  (It's not possible to 
> keep the existing start positions and add new ones to them, but it *is* 
> possible to reallocate them from scratch.)

Can we catch this case and print an error message?

        Raimar

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