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

["Brian Dunstan" <bdunstan149@xxxxxxxxx>]

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



--- Daniel Markstedt <himasaram@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 
> <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
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 

Perhaps we can put an extra flag in the description of
American cities, in the terrain hints perhaps, so that
New Orleans would show up as 

New Orleans (River, Swamp, Rebel)

instead of

New Orleans (River, Swamp)



                
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