[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#14980) Re: Re: 'true' civil war nations

["Daniel Markstedt" <himasaram@xxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=14980 >


On 2005-12-29, at 03.17, Peter Schaefer wrote:

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> <URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=14980 >
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> On 12/26/05, Daniel Markstedt <himasaram@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> <URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=14980 >
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>> Ok ok, I see your point. =)
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>> The difference is that Soviet and CSA are defunct nations that existed
>> for a relatively short period of time that relatively few people today
>> identify themselves with them and would like to play them in Freeciv.
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> Well I am pretty sure that there will be someone around who will want
> to play USA vs CCCP, since the Cold War has not been over for long,
> and I also think due to nuclear weapons that era will stay in the
> history books.
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> I would think of the Soviet Union as a modern, but historical nation.
> Of course there is some issue with city overlap with the member states
> of the Soviet Union who will show up as own nations.
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> peter
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Overlapping cities is a non-issue really, since we have the 
conflicts_with tag nowadays. All member states are listed as 
conflicting nations in the most recent version of the Soviet ruleset.

If players wants to be the Soviets, we shouldn't stop them of course. 
The big question is if we want the Soviets to be randomly selected as 
an AI opponent.

All this made me thinking: what if we limited random nation selection 
to the ones who are listed as 'Medieval' or 'Ancient' only? It would 
give a more "historical" feel to the standard game of Freeciv.

All the best
Daniel