[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#11111) Server Crash-- Bug in Beta 4

["Mike Kaufman" <kaufman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=11111 >

On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 11:02:02AM -0800, Marko Lindqvist wrote:
> 
>   Maybe, but how should we then handle situations where number of 
> players is initially less than 30, but increases (or tries to) after 
> global observer is already created? We don't want presence of observer 
> to block civil war from occurring when it would otherwise happen.

that's life. The global observer is a player. If the players are maxed out,
then civil war won't create new players. It's that simple.

-mike

PS: the only solution to this would be to make the global observer not a
player, but that would require a major rewrite of the client.