Hello,
I'm trying to make a bunch of nations for Freeciv and it's not working. I have followed the instructions on this page http://freeciv.wikia.com/wiki/Nations as best I could but no dice. I did not use the "conversion program" for converting the SVG file to PNG, but instead just made my own PNG files. They are the exact same size as the default size, so I don't think there's anything wrong there.
I could not modify the Makefile.am files because they don't exist. And they only seem to have to do with unpacking files from an archive anyway.
I've been over and over my files, looking for errors and what not, but everything looks fine. In short, I made three files: the flag png, the shield png, and the nation ruleset and put them in the right folders. And I modified three files: nations.ruleset, flags.spec, and shields.spec and put in the paths to my files. I can start the game, but when I click on Start New Game or Load Saved Game it says "Lost Connection to Server!"
I think there must be an additional step to take somewhere to get this all to work, but I don't know what.
Any help appreciated.
Nick
03:15, 5 April 2009 (UTC)
It is likely that there is some tiny mistake somewhere in the .ruleset file. A single misplaced comma or quote may cause the server to fail. Feel free to share your nation files with us and so I can have a look at what's going wrong. hima 16:55, January 21, 2010 (UTC)