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To: <ignaciovicario@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <freeciv-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>, <miguel.farah@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [Freeciv-Dev] Re: New nation Spanish second Republic
From: Daniel Markstedt <himasaram@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2006 16:08:43 +0900


On 2006-04-13, at 10.14, <ignaciovicario@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
[...]

It could look extrange the same country with tho flags, but that is
something true from the historical point of view: since 1936 till 1939,
there were two nations with two rulers and two flags who claimed to be
Spain. In the game, there is a possibility of a civil war, and the most
realistic civil war from an historical point of view, is the civil war
betwen the Spanish second republic and the militar sublevation of Franco.

The problem here is the actual naming of this civil war nation. IMHO "Spanish-Republic" isn't satisfactory.

The red-yellow flag was
imposed by the military sublevation of Franco, the Spanish equivalent to
Mussolili or Hitler. Regardless of its legal and democratic legitimity
nowadays, some people do not feel well watching such a flag all over the map. That is the reason of making a new nation ruleset. Anyway, you are the
developers...



The policy in Freeciv is to have the most recent flag of any 'modern' nation - to avoid (most) political controversy.

It wouldn't hurt if we had support for user-selectable alternative flags though. Not just because of this one; there are many other nations who have sound historical flags. Imperial Russia, China Republic (five stripes), Imperial Vietnam/South Vietnam, Pre-Revolution French Kingdom etc etc. (AI players would always default to the standard flag still.)

-Daniel





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