[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#15446) undesirable rulers

["Daniel Markstedt" <himasaram@xxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=15446 >

On Mon, 2006-02-06 at 09:01 -0800, Jason Short wrote:
> <URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=15446 >
> 
> Daniel Markstedt wrote:
> 
> > Stalin removed from Russian now when we have him in Soviet.
> 
> People have often complained about having Stalin and Hitler in the game 
> at all; in particular, the problem is that the AI may sometimes choose 
> them automatically.  If I understand how the soviet nation works, 
> however, random assignment will never give you this nation, right? 
> Maybe a German civil-war nation should be created that contains hitler. 
>   On the other hand, if that nation was Nazi-based then we'd just have a 
> bigger controversy.  Is there any way to give a name and flag to this 
> nation without being politically incorrect?


You mean like a "Third Reich" nation? My suggestion is that we make an
"Imperial Germany" nation instead (if any) spanning territories and
leaders from the Holy Roman Empire, empire of 1871-1918 and the Third
Reich. Then we'd have a place to 'put' Hitler without making the
controversial "Nazi nation".

For a flag, we could use the black-white-red tricolor that was
technically also the flag of Hitler's Germany for a few years. Or we
could try to recreate some old Holy Roman Empire flag.

> Since random assignment now works for humans too, we will be getting 
> more complaints.  So what can we do to prevent Hitler from being 
> randomly assigned?  We could simply remove him, although then players 
> wishing to play against him (on a europe scenario, for instance) would 
> have to enter his name by hand.
> 
> -jason
> 

I really don't care if he's there or not. But by removing him we risk
being flooded by requests to remove other unpopular leaders.


-Daniel