[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Stalin, soviet.ruleset and other things [Was: Re: (PR#15446) undesirable rulers]

["Daniel Markstedt" <himasaram@xxxxxxxx>]

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

On Fri, 2006-02-17 at 00:12 -0800, Jason Short wrote:
> <URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=15446 >
> 
> Daniel Markstedt wrote:
> 
> > The server won't start if there are duplicate identical names in leader
> > lists. The (ugly) solution is to use different spellings of one person's
> > name.
> 
> That's a very bad idea.  Then you could see Josef Stalin playing against 
> Joseff Stalin.  If this is actually a problem we should adjust the code 
> to deal with it (while still not letting players *choose* identical 
> leader names).
> 
> -jason

It is already a quasi-problem of sorts, since we have duplicate leaders
like Karl der Grosse and Charlemagne in German and French rulesets
respectively.

-Daniel