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

["Christian Knoke" <chrisk@xxxxxxxxx>]

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

Daniel Markstedt wrote on Feb 17, 02:46 (-0800):
> On Fri, 2006-02-17 at 00:12 -0800, Jason Short 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).

> 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.

I don't know how this is currently resolved with nations. I think there are
pairs of nations that can't (or shouldn't) be chosen together in the same
game. Just do this with ruler names. The first one who picks Stalin gets
him. Alternatively, maybe better (because of the city names) you can forbid
to have soviet and russian in the same game.

Russian and Soviet don't share any cities - how did you do this, Daniel? ;)

For Karl der Große and Charlemagne, I don't think it is a problem to have
them both in a game - until we introduce translated/transscripted ruler
names.

Christian

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