I have been trying the 2.1 client (r15425) in multiplayer games as well as talking with players and reading forum postings, and I have to agree that the client is hard (if not impossible) to use to play well. There are a number of annoying behaviours that constantly get in the way, taking away time and enjoyment needlessly.
(See for example: http://forum.freeciv.org/viewtopic.php?t=5756 ) The server also poorly supports multiplayer games, making it hard for players to organize games fairly and efficiently. Although I seem to recall the "policy" that no new features be allowed into the 2.1 branch (only bugfixes), I would propose that basic usability features that have been tried, tested and found to be good in warclient/warserver be allowed to be ported and integrated into the S2_1 branch. This is in preference to having a "2.1 warclient" of custom player patches so we don't repeat the annoying "fork" situation as happened with 2.0. Of course I will submit each feature in its own ticket, and if the code is found to be dubious or the change undesirable we can omit it or postpone it until 2.2. I would hope that in 3-4 weeks we can release 2.1.9 and it would be close to as playable as warclient is on 2.0. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 勘弁してくれ！ _______________________________________________ Freeciv-dev mailing list Freeciv-dev@gna.org https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/freeciv-dev
