[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#9596) Better nation selection

["Christian Knoke" <chrisk@xxxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=9596 >

On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 02:32:42AM -0700, Mateusz Stefek wrote:
> 
> <URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=9596 >
> 
> On 2004-08-09 08:43:44, Christian Knoke wrote:
> > 
> > I like the idea of using nations which belong together historically.
> > 
> > The best way to use it are lists of appropriate nations; the users  
> > can
> > choose that list, or it is auto-selected by the first chosen nation.
> 
> What about adding idea of groups such as 'tolkien', 'ancient', 'dark  
> age', 'mediaval', 'reinessance', 'modern' and 'post-war'?

or 'european', 'mediterrainian', 'asian'

> Each nation could have a list of groups it belongs to.

good, plus 1 file with group definitions and (short) descriptions.

> > We can make a server option 'nationgrouping'
> 
> What for?

Because it reduces the number of offered nations in the nation select
dialog.

> Wouldn't it be another unused option like naturalcitynames ?

As long as there is no good interface for these options ... think this has
great effect on option usage.

Christian

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