[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#8854) remove some specialist references

["Jason Short" <jdorje@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=8854 >

Marko Lindqvist wrote:

>   Since player can later change between specialists with no cost, 
> removing random specialists would be not really a game feature but just 
> nuisance.
> 
>   Hmm... You can have taxmen / scientists in a < 5 city after famine if 
> elvises are listed (and thus removed) first.
>   Or maybe this is handled somewhere else? (Just realized that AFAIK you 
> can have 2 taxmen in a size 5 city and only removing one of them when 
> city gets smaller would be bug too)

Yes, it's a bug.  There's also a bug (in the current code) that taxmen 
are added as the "new" citizen in certain places, without a size check.

Obviously the size restriction isn't a hard requirement then.  You can't 
make such specialists but you can get them sometimes.

>   As a player I would like that default specialist (elvis) is removed 
> first, since they might be something I have not wanted in the first 
> place whereas others (taxmen/scientists) I have personally selected. 
> Unwanted elvises live in my cities quite often when city has grown and I 
> have not immediately noticed that specialist is produced instead of 
> worker. But this is not really important, it's quite satisfactory as it is.

IMO it would be fine just to call auto_arrange_workers any time you're 
in doubt.

jason