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Posted: **Sat Dec 12, 2020 1:57 pm**

Hi all,

This is my first post, sorry if it's off topic, in the wrong place, or too outdated to be answered.

But I'm having problems setting the default ruleset.

I am trying to configure the game so when I click Start New Game, the Ruleset option will be set to civ2civ3.

I am using Freeciv-2.6.2.1-gtk3, downloaded from freeciv.org, installed on Windows 10 with the default options.

I tried to change the line in
C:\Program Files (x86)\Freeciv-2.6.2.1-gtk3\data\default.serv
from

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rulesetdir classic

to

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rulesetdir civ2civ3

I start the game by clicking on the shortcut created by the installer, whose destination is

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"C:\Program Files (x86)\Freeciv-2.6.2.1-gtk3\freeciv-gtk3.cmd" en_US

But when I close all the instances of Freeciv, open a new one using the link above, and click on Start New Game, Ruleset is set to default.

If I run

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/show ruleset

I get the output

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/show: Current ruleset directory is classic

If I click on Start, the game starts with the "classic" ruleset.

Am I doing something wrong?

Thanks!

Posted: **Sat Dec 12, 2020 6:07 pm**

The default ruleset the server starts with is within the binary itself.

I have not tested it, but maybe you can set the shortcut to give started client the "-r <.serv -file>" commandline parameter, and to write .serv file you want.

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> freeciv-gtk3 --help
Encodings: Data=UTF-8, Local=UTF-8, Internal=UTF-8
Usage: freeciv-gtk3 [option ...]
Valid option are:
  -A, --Announce PROTO  Announce game in LAN using protocol PROTO (IPv4/IPv6/none)
  -a, --autoconnect     Skip connect dialog
  -d, --debug NUM       Set debug log level (0 to 4, or 4:file1,min,max:...)
  -F, --Fatal [SIGNAL]  Raise a signal on failed assertion
  -f, --file FILE       Load saved game FILE
  -H, --Hackless        Do not request hack access to local, but not spawned, server
  -h, --help            Print a summary of the options
  -l, --log FILE        Use FILE as logfile (spawned server also uses this)
  -M, --Meta HOST       Connect to the metaserver at HOST
  -m, --music FILE      Read music tags from FILE
  -n, --name NAME       Use NAME as username on server
  -P, --Plugin PLUGIN   Use PLUGIN for sound output [sdl, none]
  -p, --port PORT       Connect to server port PORT (usually with -a)
  -r, --read FILE       Read startup script FILE (for spawned server only)
  -S, --Sound FILE      Read sound tags from FILE
  -s, --server HOST     Connect to the server at HOST (usually with -a)
  -t, --tiles FILE      Use data file FILE.tilespec for tiles
  -v, --version         Print the version number
  -w, --warnings        Warn about deprecated modpack constructs
      --                Pass any following options to the UI.
                        Try "freeciv-gtk3 -- --help" for more.
Report bugs at https://www.freelists.org/list/freeciv-dev

Posted: **Sun Dec 13, 2020 11:59 am**

Thanks for the reply!

I tried running the commands

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C:\Program Files (x86)\Freeciv-2.6.2.1-gtk3>freeciv-mp-gtk3 --help
C:\Program Files (x86)\Freeciv-2.6.2.1-gtk3>freeciv-mp-gtk3 -r foo.serv

and the variations

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C:\Program Files (x86)\Freeciv-2.6.2.1-gtk3>freeciv-mp-gtk3.exe --help
C:\Program Files (x86)\Freeciv-2.6.2.1-gtk3>freeciv-mp-gtk3.exe -r foo.serv

C:\Program Files (x86)\Freeciv-2.6.2.1-gtk3>freeciv-mp-gtk3 -h
C:\Program Files (x86)\Freeciv-2.6.2.1-gtk3>freeciv-mp-gtk3 /?

C:\Program Files (x86)\Freeciv-2.6.2.1-gtk3>freeciv-mp-gtk3.exe -h
C:\Program Files (x86)\Freeciv-2.6.2.1-gtk3>freeciv-mp-gtk3.exe /?

But they don't give any output, and the program does not start either.
I'm guessing the Windows version has been so lonely that it didn't learn how to communicate properly yet?

As a workaround, what I'm doing for now is
Start New Game
Run the server commands—I'm practicing the beginning of the game for "civ2civ3", so I need:

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/read civ2civ3
/set minplayers 1
/set aifill 1

Then I save it with

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/save foo.serv

Now, every time I want a new game, I just load foo.serv that it contains the setup I need (and allows for optionaly picking a nation).

Posted: **Sun Dec 13, 2020 12:26 pm**

eglur wrote:I tried running the commands

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C:\Program Files (x86)\Freeciv-2.6.2.1-gtk3>freeciv-mp-gtk3 --help
C:\Program Files (x86)\Freeciv-2.6.2.1-gtk3>freeciv-mp-gtk3 -r foo.serv

That's freeciv modpack installer, not the client.

eglur wrote:But they don't give any output, and the program does not start either.
I'm guessing the Windows version has been so lonely that it didn't learn how to communicate properly yet?

Yeah, Windows client detach from the console or something, so its output is not visible. As a workaround you can direct logging output to a file with "-l <filename>" parameter. Be sure to give a path to which you have write permissions (you can't write the logfile to the freeciv installation directory)

eglur wrote: Then I save it with
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/save foo.serv

That creates a savegame called foo.serv.sav, not a script file foo.serv.
The commands meant for writing and loading script files are ''write'' and ''read''.

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> /help write
Command: write  -  Write current settings as server commands to file.
Synopsis: write <file-name>
Level: hack
> /help read
Command: read  -  Process server commands from file.
Synopsis: read <file-name>
Level: ctrl

Posted: **Sun Dec 13, 2020 4:06 pm**

cazfi wrote: That's freeciv modpack installer, not the client.

My bad!

cazfi wrote: [...] you can direct logging output to a file with "-l <filename>" parameter. Be sure to give a path to which you have write permissions (you can't write the logfile to the freeciv installation directory)

After testing the logging functionality with success (the remark about permission was really helpful here, thanks!), I could debug my way into creating a ".serv" file with the proper syntax and have it also properly processed.

Now I could successfully configure the default ruleset to "civ2civ3", and also set it up for single player. Thank you very much for your help!

As an aside, TBH your post just woke me up from a recent rabbit hole I went in: thinking about contributing, I compiled the dev version inside a vm and was testing it... Turns out I now really want that elephant!

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