[Freeciv-Dev] (PR#10482)

["Per I. Mathisen" <per@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=10482 >

This is an update of doc/README for 2.0.0-beta1.

  - Per

Index: doc/README
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/freeciv/CVS/freeciv/doc/README,v
retrieving revision 1.9
diff -u -r1.9 README
--- doc/README  6 Mar 2003 10:17:03 -0000       1.9
+++ doc/README  9 Oct 2004 19:04:03 -0000
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
-====================
-Freeciv Version 1.14
-====================
+=====================
+Freeciv Version 2.0.0
+=====================
 
 Welcome to Freeciv!
 
@@ -128,17 +128,20 @@
 
   For example:
 
-  |  > help xsize
-  |  Option: xsize  -  Map width in squares
-  |  Status: changeable
-  |  Value: 80, Minimum: 40, Default: 80, Maximum: 200
+  | > help size
+  |  Option: size  -  Map size in 1,000 tiles units
+  |  Description:
+  |  This value is used to determine xsize and ysize
+  |    size = 4 is a normal map of 4,000 tiles (default)
+  |    size = 20 is a huge map of 20,000 tiles
+  | Status: changeable
+  | Value: 4, Minimum: 1, Default: 4, Maximum: 29
 
   And:
 
-  |  > set xsize 100
-  |  > set ysize 80
+  |  > set size 8
 
-  This will make the map twice as large as the default of 80x50.
+  This will make the map twice as large as the default.
 
 Client:
 
@@ -235,7 +238,7 @@
 If you do not want to limit your opponents to local friends or AI players,
 visit the Freeciv metaserver:
 
-  http://meta.freeciv.org/metaserver/
+  http://meta.freeciv.org/metaserver.phtml
 
 It is a list of Freeciv servers.  To make your own server announce itself
 there, start civserver with the '--meta' option, or just '-m' for short.
@@ -244,7 +247,8 @@
 
  1) Due to the inclusion of new features, different client and server
     versions are often incompatible. The 1.14.0 version is for example
-    incompatible with 1.13.0 or earlier versions.
+    incompatible with 1.13.0 or earlier versions.  Version 2.0 is
+    also incompatible with 1.14.0.
 
  2) If the Metaserver button in the connection dialog doesn't work,
     check if your ISP uses a mandatory WWW proxy and make civclient
@@ -296,6 +300,9 @@
 typed "pet:", it will find a player name that matches the part of the
 name you typed.
 
+You can send a message to all your allies by prefixing it with the 
+letter '.' (yes, that is a period).
+
 You can issue server commands from the client input line:
 
   |  /list