Establishing connection to freeciv Server

[yashbonde]

Introduction: Freeciv uses a server-client system to run the game where the information transfer is done using packets. The server can be run locally, on cloud, or using meta-server functionality of the game. Connecting to the server is key to running the package, once this part is complete and we can establish connection we would have completed 30% of the work.

Problem: To establish connection to the server we need to use set of packets. The packets used are defined here. It uses a non-standard packet structure and thus is difficult to use. We need to find a way to establish connection to the server using the proper packets.

Approach: you can define the properties of the server before running it as follows:

$ fcser --port=5000 --debug=4 --log=server_log.log

Here port refers to port so the server can be connected on 127.0.0.1:port, --debug=4 gives more detailed information and --log=log_file logs the information from the server (very helpful in understanding the structure)

NOTES: This issue also depends upon another issue #4 about converting packets to python.