[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#13971) Data: Confederate nation

["Daniel Markstedt" <himasaram@xxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=13971 >


On 2005-10-07, at 18.40, Brian Dunstan wrote:
>>
>> A slightly different approach to Confederate nation:
>>
>> Only two cities (both actual capitals), not
>> overlapping with American
>> nation (too insignificant in contemporary USA). The
>> rest of the
>> nation's cities are fetched from American nation
>> through the
>> civilwar_nation tag. If both Confederates and
>> Americans are present in
>> a game, they simply compete for the city names.
>>
>> Also introducing new group: "Ideological". This is a
>> very versatile
>> group that can hold several kinds of nations: For
>> example Soviet and
>> European (EU) nations suggested elsewhere. Also UN,
>> NATO (both using
>> flags in CVS,) Yugoslav plus perhaps religious
>> "nations" such as
>> Christians, Muslims etc. The possibilities are
>> endless. :-)
>>
>> Plus new flag: The (in)famous Southern Cross. Drawn
>> by me.
>>
>> Daniel
>>
>>
>
> Correct me if I'm wrong, but this creates a
> possibility that a confederate nation includes Boston
> and New York, but not Richmond and Atlanta.
>
>

I'm afraid that's correct, yes. But having the major cities of the 
Confederacy in the Confederate nation as well as the American nation 
will produce ugly duplicates when both nations are in game. Unless 
server option 'citynames' is set to 2 that is (city names have to be 
globally unique.)

I can't think of any better solution... Few people would approve of 
moving Atlanta et al to the Confederates either.

Daniel