[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#18247) french.ruleset

["Daniel Markstedt" <markstedt@xxxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=18247 >

On 7/4/06, miguel@xxxxxxxx <miguel@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> <URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=18247 >
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> On 7/2/06, Daniel Markstedt <markstedt@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > <URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=18247 >
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> > Improvements to french.ruleset by Frederic Rodrigo <f.rodrigo free.fr>
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> I appreciate Frederic's effort. Now, I don't mean to be a prick, but...
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> Am I misremembering things or the idea behind the terrain features for
> city names was that they were to be included only if the city name
> itself described or suggested the feature? For example, the city of Port
> Angeles might be written down in the ruleset as "Port Angeles (ocean)"
> but, say, Yakima might not be written down as "Yakima (!ocean, river)",
> as nothing in its name suggests a river or being inland.
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I believe you're right that this was the original intent of the
feature. Should be somewhere in the list archives.

> Frederic took the considerable effort of describing the geographical
> features of every city in the ruleset, which I think might be
> counterproductive, as it'll actually make more difficult for any city
> names to fully comply with each new city's features. The fact that most
> cities are inland might be too much if the game is one of those "mostly
> sea" ones.
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> --
> Miguel Farah
> miguel@xxxxxxxx
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It has been done in many other rulesets - German and American springs
to mind. I agree that too many '!ocean' is potentially problematic.
Otherwise I see no harm in this.


--Daniel