[Freeciv] Re: Nations + Feeling

[Raimar Falke <hawk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Nov 07, 2001 at 10:50:33AM +0100, Vegh Karoly wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I knew CIV since the old DOS version, and now, that i play FreeCIV under
> linux, the old feeling seems to touch me, and go to sleep at 4 a.m. :)
> Though i miss the old explanations of the technology improvements, when my
> sciencists invent something (a popup-window they let me know what they
> invented and the description of the new technology, with a little
> graphic). How 'bout new-implementing this old feature? Of course it could
> be optional, but imho it just raised the feeling :)

Problem is that graphics and text is needed. Both have to be under
GPL.

> Same opinion about the old fullscreen city-view feature. Optional again
> ofc, but i was always happy to see the wonders and the city (or the civil
> disorder...). Just like the palace building thingie, but this one is the
> least important from the above mentioned three, imho.
> 

> Another question: What do i need to get a new country into FreeCIV? My
> wife is austrian, i'm hungarian, and she's quite offended that Hungary can
> be found in CIV, but Austria not. How to fix this? Shall i send u couple
> of Austrian city names, and ideas what they should have at startup?

The amount of nations is currently limited. So no more nations are
added to the CVS version. You may want to look at
<ftp://ftp.freeciv.org/freeciv/contrib/nations>. I hope that the
current limitation of freeciv in this area is removed in the next
major version.

        Raimar

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