[Freeciv] Re: how to add a new nation?

[Jason Dorje Short <jdorje@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Per Inge Mathisen wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Apr 2005, Netotea Sergiu wrote:
> 
>>I am a romanian, and i am dissapointed by the fact
>>that there is no romanian and bulgarian civilization
>>in the game. I am planning to add them and i want to
>>know if that is posible and how can it be done, as i
>>do not have time now to go deep into the source code.
> 
> 
> You do not even have to touch the source code. All you need to do is to
> write another nation ruleset file in data/nations/ like that of
> data/nations/vikings.ruleset

See http://www.freeciv.org/index.php/Nations.

>>Also, can the civilisation starting position be
>>modified in a scenario?
> 
> Yes, using civworld. However, civworld is in the process of being
> rewritten right now, and I am not sure how useful it current is.

Also you can edit the scenarios by hand.

-jason