<URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=28793 >
On 12/16/06, Christian Knoke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > <URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=28793 > > > > Hello, Daniel, > > Daniel Markstedt wrote on Dec 11, 22:31 (-0800): > > > I read this, > > > > http://forum.freeciv.org/viewtopic.php?t=2273&start=30 > > > > and thought that it might be a good idea to exclude currently living > > persons from our leader lists. Isn't it fitting that the leaders are > > historical in a game about history? > > Uhm, well, Freeciv is not necessarily only about history, I think. > The default ruleset is! > Clearly, no current leaders should be in the rulesets. This is mainly > to avoid political discussions about them, IIRC. > The problem is, as long as a politician is alive, they can return to office at any time. When going through the rulesets for this patch, I stumbled over dozens of such examples where the political scene had changed since I last revised them. > I think, excluding all living people is too much. There might very well > be persons with historical meaning that are still alive. > Definitely, but it can be difficult to evaluate living leaders since their political carreers aren't over yet. > It may even be fun to see a well-remembered (cause recent) leader in > the list. But the main criteria is still importance, whether in good or > in bad. > > BTW, we have some very new nations in the set like Croatia. > > Christian > > -- > Christian Knoke * * * http://cknoke.de > * * * * * * * * * Ceterum censeo Microsoft esse dividendum. > > > In the end, it is much easier to maintain the nations with this policy. That is, after all, my job. ;-) Best, --Daniel _______________________________________________ Freeciv-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/freeciv-dev
