[Freeciv-Dev] Re: scenarios with too many players

[Jason Dorje Short <jdorje@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Per Inge Mathisen wrote:
> On Sat, 22 May 2004, Jason Dorje Short wrote:
>
> > 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.)
> >
> > This patch does this.It is untested.  I'm not even sure it's better
> > than what's done now (although it is a bit simpler).
>
> Erhm, aren't you removing the 'max_players' feature entirely here?
I don't think so.  If maxplayers is 7 you can't ever get more than 7 
players.  Of course the server owner can increase maxplayers.  The goal 
of the patch is to give maxplayers priority over the number of start 
positions.  I'm not sure if this is a good idea (I think it might be) 
but it is possible.
jason