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

[Daniel Markstedt <himasaram@xxxxxxxx>]

On 2005-09-16, at 19.12, Christian Knoke wrote:
> > > 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..
Exactly. Guidelines are good, but we also have to be flexible about 
this. The available information is very different between nations.
Daniel