[Freeciv] Re: name of worker/engineer

[Jason Dorje Short <jdorje@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Gregory Berkolaiko wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Jul 2004, Christian Knoke wrote:
> 
> 
>>On Mon, Jul 19, 2004 at 09:18:21PM -0400, Jason Dorje Short wrote:
>>
>>>nicholas.g.lawrence@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>I object to the term "worker" because I believe
>>>>that term already refers to the city's population
>>>>working the surrounding squares.
>>>
>>>Sort of true.  I don't know if this is referred to anywhere except in code.
>>
>>The common term in helpdata.txt is "citizen". "worker" is used only 3 times.
>>I suggest to replace these occurences with "citizen" to remove the ambiguity
>>Nicholas has mentioned.
> 
> 
> I would think that specialists are also citizens...

AFAIK...

Citizens are divided into specialists, happy, content, unhappy, and 
angry citizens.  content and happy citizens become workers.

In other games, citiezens are divided into happiness categories before 
being divided between citizens and workers.  This is clearly superior 
IMO.  Certainly the current method won't work for a MoM compatability layer.

jason