[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 2006-02-18, at 02.58, Jason Short wrote:

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> <URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=15446 >
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> Daniel Markstedt wrote:
>> <URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=15446 >
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>> On Fri, 2006-02-17 at 00:12 -0800, Jason Short wrote:
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>>> <URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=15446 >
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>>> Daniel Markstedt wrote:
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>>>> 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
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>> 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.
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> So we have the exact same problem with duplicate leaders as with
> duplicate cities...
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> -jason
>

Perhaps we need do something similar to Benedict's city aliases patch - 
PR#14721. (Whatever happened to this patch BTW: was it rejected?)

-Daniel