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

["Christian Knoke" <chrisk@xxxxxxxxx>]

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

On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 02:27:35AM -0800, Mateusz Stefek wrote:
> 
> > > - It is stupid that Greeks are 'historical' they should be 'historical'
> > > and 'modern' at least
> > > - Some people are offended when we call their nation 'historical' just
> > > because they don't have an independent country.
> > 
> > Please note, that 'historical' and 'modern' are not characteristics of the
> > nation, but of the ruleset.
> 
> I understand. But some players might not and feel offended.

Hhm. Write the 'historical' in BIG letters.

> > When creating a ruleset, people make the distiction whether to write one
> > for the historical nation, which refers to a time in history where that
> > nation - or a nation with this name - has had its 'great' time, or for
> > the modern nation, which refers to an existing state (according to UN I
> > might think).
> > 
> > This has great influence on the selection of cities in the ruleset (at
> > least). In the past, we've had some serious discussions about this
> > point, because people tend to complain bitterly, that another nation has
> > the cities of their own nation in the ruleset.  The reason in these
> > cases are (nowadays) that the ruleset is for the historical nation.
> > Having said this, I don't think it is a good idea to mix historical and
> > modern groups, i.e. put a nation.ruleset into both of them.

> There's no historical group in my patch.

I have read 'make a nation historical as well as modern' somewhere in your
post.

> Do you suggest that there should be greeks_ancient and
> greeks_modern.rulesets?

I don't suggest it. But if there is request, maybe we can do it.

> Anyway My patch is about something different - it only adds possibility
> of being in more than a one group.
> We can even leave the old division and commit only the code.

I didn't say your patch is wrong (how could I). Just pointed out the above.

Christian

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