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Arbogast wrote:

cazfi wrote:Out of curiostity: what values of "landmass" and "wetness" server settings you use to get maps like that, no oceans nor rivers anywhere to be seen?

Cazfi: They are default values.

Is it an unusually huge map, them, with correspondingly massive continental interior?

How does Freeciv know where to start everybody? Is the save file programmed with them? Yes -- potential start positions can be specified in the save file, and each position can have some nation restrictions associated with it (either the subset of nations which are allowed, or those that are not). ...

Oops, yes, I've reproduced that, and more trouble besides. I've raised bug #21159.

This is something I too have been considering for some years (I've been calling the frozen water terrain "Sea Ice"), and I've been meaning to post about. What originally made me think about it is the unsatisfactory situation with polar regions: either you have "separatepoles" set...

The Windows builds are now up; thanks to Christian as usual.

gm1530's "Inaccessible" tile is now in svn. Here's what it looks like in context ("France" scenario): InaccessibleFrance.png I find the compass rose is a bit "foreground-y" and distracting, but since it will never have a unit or city on it I suppose it doesn't matter. A...

25 months after 2.3.0, the next major version of Freeciv, 2.4.0, has been released. See NEWS-2.4.0 for details of what has changed since the last stable release line, 2.3.x. For those who tried the betas and release candidates, this version is practically identical to RC2. Source code is available h...

The Windows packages are now available.

It's probably worth noting that freeciv-manual, even when working as designed, is probably going to be a bit disappointing to end users. Really, all it's useful for at the moment is as a helper to keep pages on the central wiki like this one up-to-date with new releases (and we haven't actually done...

(Moved from announcement topic.) In the list of changes since RC1 I found in the wiki link It was not possible to install Freeciv using the default (en_US) translation on a non-English version of Windows (although it was possible to use British English, en_GB). GNA#21059 which is not true. The defau...