Dropped player recover

[Cainehill]

Originally posted by Norfleet:

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Originally posted by Ice Sickle:
A really simple first cut at a fix would be to put in the pretender's name parentheses after the "human controlled" entry.

Atlantis Human Controlled (Waterboy)
Pythium Human Controlled (Cedrick)
Man Human Controlled (Billy Bob)
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This "fix" does actually come with a minor drawback: If the game is to be played with information on other nations disabled, pretender names would still be visible right off the bat. That sort of makes the matter slightly moot, since now they've given us the option to still have Pretenders of the World while ixnay on the scoregraphs.

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Instead of showing the pretender names, it'd be really nice if they used different colors - ones selected by a human already should be red. (It'd also be very nice if color was used to show AI players that have been turned on.)

And, if a slot is selected that already has a human pretender, at least prompt "This nation has already been selected by a player. Are you sure you want to override their choice?"

This would at least give the idiots a headsup that they're doing something wrong.