Longturn on Freeciv-web server?

[andreasr]

Hi!

I wonder if there is any interest in a Longturn server on Freeciv-web, the HTML5 version of Freeciv?
I have previously discussed cooperation between Longturn and Freeciv-web with Michal. Freeciv-web is developed here on github.
For this to work, the Longturn-changes to Freeciv would have to be extracted as patches, then updated to the current version of Freeciv.
It would also mean some changes to Freeciv-web to support Longturn, as well as finding someone who wants to administer the longturn games there.

I think adding Longturn support to Freeciv-web would be of great benefit to the Longturn and Freeciv-web players, and allow more people to play Longturn easily in their browser.


Andreas

[maho]

For me, is useless, because I cannot play in isometric tilesets and in such scale.

I don't imagine strategic game where I see only few units on the screen, because they are so big.

[huru]

Personally I would welcome the possibily to connect to longturn.org game using Freeciv-web. Not that I would play at work *ahem* but it just happens that the firewall at my current office prevents connecting using the regular client. Or so they say, I wouldn't know.

[andreasr]

For me, is useless, because I cannot play in isometric tilesets and in such scale.

I don't imagine strategic game where I see only few units on the screen, because they are so big.

It should be possible to add support for the trident tileset to Freeciv-web. It hasn't been implemented yet, since not many people have requested it.
As for the scale, you can zoom the mapview using your browser's scale menu items.

Andreas

[maho]

ah, scaling works indeed. It's not the same, because when I zoom-out to desired unit size, then city label is unreadable and UI buttons are hard to target, but it's something.

Well, if there is any non-isometric tileset there, I would play using web client. At least for proof of concept .

How hard is to connect it to any arbitrary freeciv server?