<URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=39603 >
On Fri, 31 Aug 2007 11:16:20 +0300, Daniel Markstedt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > <URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=39603 > > > Some thoughts on this issue: > > In turk.ruleset, all cities after Trabzon are in alphabetical order. I'd > much prefer them to be sorted in a less arbitrary fashion, for example > population or founding date. The data of the last population statistics is of 2000. The list given in the refering wikipedia article (http://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Türkiye'nin_en_kalabalık_şehirleri) gives the 100 biggest towns. So maybe that one should be used then completely (Ankara as capital being the first)... I don't know if there's something like a "founding date list" of cities... > In ottoman.ruleset: I'm hesitant about replacing the old city list here. > There was a point of having those obscure cities in the top of the list: > cities like Söğüt and Bilecik are supposed to be the birthplace of the > Osman dynasty. For non-modern nations, it's a good idea to sort cities > in order of founding, rather than later importance or size. Also, it'd > like to keep archaic names of cities, like "Kostantiniye" instead of > "Istanbul". Do you know any Ottoman Turkish? I'd be really cool if we > could give even more cities old names... Unfortunately not... so maybe I should not mingle with something I do not know and we should leave that for later when (hopefully) there will be some more turkish participants playing Freeciv ;-) > ~Daniel > Roman _______________________________________________ Freeciv-dev mailing list Freeciv-dev@gna.org https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/freeciv-dev
