[Freeciv] Re: Freeciv

["Bobby D. Bryant" <bdbryant@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Bobby D. Bryant" wrote:

> The interesting one for this discussion is "play a solo game".  This option 
> launches
> the server with a --solo switch, lets you set the desired server settings 
> with a GUI,
> and then when you tell it to start, it starts the server process *and* 
> launches a
> client, telling the client which server to connect to.

That wasn't very clear.  What I should have said was, it starts the server with 
the
--solo switch, and after you've selected the desired server settings and told 
the server
to start, then the *server* launches a client and tell the client to connect to 
itself.
(The --solo switch is what tells the server to do this.)

Thus to the solo player it looks more or less like one of the commercial civ 
games: you
start the game, click some options, and play.  The various option selections are
actually offered by different processes, but that is transparent to the user.

Bobby Bryant
Austin, Texas