*sets without inatallation
Posted: Mon Oct 11, 2021 10:01 pm
Currenrly, you need to inatall rulesets and nation sets for any game we host, and tilesets for any game we play. While the number of *sets that we can install has been lifted in the novel versions, we still have to do it even if we don't want to use it out of some very scpecific cases. It also would be easier to develop rulesets if we could keep different versions of the same ruleset with one Freeciv installation and not contaminate rhe ruleset luat with development stuff. So, my proposals:
- Ability to pack *sets into savegames, I mean scenarios. Savegame is usually an archive any way, why not to put more files into it. A scenario may have some plot out of which its rules are mad.
- Broadcast tilesets from online servers, better with an ability to cache them locally and fast check if they are up to date. Maybe rulesets and nation sets of a game could be cached the same way insto sending on each connect.