[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#14343) Data: Egyptian city list

["Per I. Mathisen" <per@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=14343 >

On Fri, 4 Nov 2005, William Allen Simpson wrote:
> What about Benedict's earlier idea: "Londinium|London (ocean,river)"?

It is, in itself, a rather neat feature.

The key problem is that now that we have gone down the road of unlimited
quantity, that has pretty much locked the features that we can provide. It
is entirely unpractical to add anything new to nations now that there are
so many of them. You might be able, with a lot of work, to add such
information for a few nations, and even make it consistent. However, you
won't be able to do it for all nations, and especially not in any way
consistent.

So we end up with just a mess, with some cities for some nations
occasionally changing names, while most don't, and it just ends up
confusing the user, instead of amazing the user.

  - Per