[Freeciv-Dev] Re: next changes for nations...

[Daniel Markstedt <himasaram@xxxxxxxx>]

> - Use of new city styles (see PR#13893).
Um, that ticket contained only nonsense (to me...)

However, I know what you're referring to. If you could provide a hint 
on how to make the fallback city style syntax, it would be much easier.
> - Legends for all nations (better to do sooner than later since they 
> must all be translated).
I'm adding a legend to any nation I'm updating with something else. Do 
you think we need to make a huge add-all-legends patch once and for all 
and be done with it?
> - 3:2 aspect ratio for flags. If this is what's desired, we should 
> change the renderer to enforce it and fix any flag that doesn't show 
> properly at this ratio.
I like this proposition. However, it'd be nice if the rendering code 
allowed everything in between 3:2 and 1:1, instead of stretching them 
horizontally. Just limit their vertical size to match that of 3:2 so 
they won't look so oversized. I know that for example the Danes and 
Swiss are quite picky about the form factor of their respective flags..
> - An updated file doc/README.nations explaining adding of new nations 
> (flags and ruleset files and bootstrap data). This can be taken 
> directly from the wiki I think. It should of course list our 
> standards.
Some text can be moved from the doc/README.rulesets file too.

> What other standards should we have for nations?
>
>
> -jason
At least one relevant civil war nation. A civil war nation should be 
historically, geographically and/or linguistically related to the 
current nation. In my opinion, being linguistically related is 
especially relevant, since city names are chosen from civil war nations 
when you run out of them yourself.
Daniel