[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Ruleset editing (nations)

[Christian Knoke <chrisk@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 06:51:00PM +0200, Daniel Markstedt wrote:

> >  contributors add there name to a contributor list placed in comments.
> >  or is this unnecessary/unwanted?
> >
> 
> I think we gave up on that. ;-)

Ok.

> >- geographical hints (at least some) for cities are strongly encouraged
> >
> 
> Do you mean natural city names?

Yes.

> > cities should be placed in order of importance or magnificence (I assume
> > that the code uses this order if terrain information is not to be used.
> > Is this correct?)
> 
> I think cities should be placed both in order of historical and modern 
> importance, as well as chronological order. Otherwise, all your 
> nation's famous "magnificent" cities will end up in the limited area 
> that is your starting position. In reality (and in the game) a city's 
> importance is decided from it's geographical position, not from early 
> founding (even though that's important too.) I opt for a stronger focus 
> on chronological order.

If this information is available..

Christian

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