[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 09:40 -0800, Christian Knoke wrote:
> <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? ;)
> 

Ask Egor - it's his creation! :-)

Soviet nation is currently set to conflict with the Russians and all
other former member republics we have in the game - for obvious reasons
- so there would be no risk of having two Stalins at game start.

However, we might be seeing Joseff Stalin revolt against Josef Stalin
since Soviet is Russia's only civil war nation..... But then again, we
could just pretend that it's his evil clone that's gone berserk.

> 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
> 

It is a problem for those who know that he's one and the same
person. ;-)

-Daniel