[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Leader names

[Per Inge Mathisen <per@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 11 Jun 2005, Jason Dorje Short wrote:
> > I think it is high time we stopped using leader names for humans and
> > reserved them for AI use. We discussed this when we went over this GUI
> > design, and there was, IIRC, general agreement on this point.
>
> I do not particularly agree.

That is not a particularly helpful answer.

> And this doesn't help with any GUI issue since the username can be just
> as long (MAX_LEN_NAME).

Usernames tend to be shorter, and we can limit them more, while leader
names more often are long. We can more easily accomodate one dynamic
string (username), than two (username + leader name).

  - Per