Hey, what's happening

[milsu]

Umh, how do you achieve first selecting "classic" ruleset, and then playing a scenario game? There's no ruleset selection when you start a scenario from the client.

I start scenario, then there is the option to change the ruleset, near the option to set AI difficulty.

[cazfi]

Thanks. I don't think that (widget of the standard pre-game page) should be there in case of scenarios, as scenarios cannot be used with just any ruleset (think about a scenario with units that do not exist in rules). And anyway the ruleset should be loaded before the scenario that uses it.

[milsu]

If you run server separately, you should be able to set ruleset first, and then to load europe scenario (this does not work with all scenarios, but most of the scenarios included in freeciv distribution can be played with multiple rulesets):

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> rulesetdir classic
...
> load europe

I did this, opened the server first, typed "rulesetdir classic", and then "load europe", but when I start the Europe map, it is still "civ2civ3" ruleset. I think I saw that "classic" ruleset was default before version 2.6, so I should search for some previous versions of the game.

[milsu]

I have tried both 2.5.12 and 2.6.11 versions, and I can confirm that both got "classic" ruleset by default for the map of Europe. But I will stick to 2.5.12 because it got the prettiest user interface.

[Elefant]

What clients are you using for 2.6.11 vs 2.5.12?

[milsu]

What clients are you using for 2.6.11 vs 2.5.12?

Mainstream client.

[Elefant]

2.6.x changed default client to gtk3/gtk3.22. You could try the gtk2 client to see if that is more to your liking.
It can be found here: https://files.freeciv.org/packages/windows/

[cazfi]

There are also msys2 based builds of freeciv-2.6 here, to replace ancient msys1 system: https://files.freeciv.org/packages/wind ... /releases/
Later versions are made with msys2 by default.

[cazfi]

Thanks. I don't think that (widget of the standard pre-game page) should be there in case of scenarios, as scenarios cannot be used with just any ruleset (think about a scenario with units that do not exist in rules). And anyway the ruleset should be loaded before the scenario that uses it.

-> https://redmine.freeciv.org/issues/506

[cazfi]

If you run server separately, you should be able to set ruleset first, and then to load europe scenario (this does not work with all scenarios, but most of the scenarios included in freeciv distribution can be played with multiple rulesets):

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> rulesetdir classic
...
> load europe

I did this, opened the server first, typed "rulesetdir classic", and then "load europe", but when I start the Europe map, it is still "civ2civ3" ruleset. I think I saw that "classic" ruleset was default before version 2.6, so I should search for some previous versions of the game.

Works for me.

Just to clarify: You should "Connect to Network Game" to that server, not to start a new scenario game (with client-internal server).