How do I set default player names, nations and AI difficulty?

Question

When I want to start a new game of Freeciv, I am always presented with a screen like this:

I want to set some defaults so that I don't have to manually select the player nations every time I want to start a new game (this becomes tedious when the number of players is 30+).

I know how to set the default number of AI players (by using the aifill server option). But how can I set the default AI skill level, the default player names, and the default player nations?

In other words, I'd like to be automatically presented with something like this when I want to start a new game:

How can I achieve this?

EDIT: Freeciv issue tracker: https://www.hostedredmine.com/issues/855495

reinierpost · Answer

The default AI level can be set with the hard server command. You can set it in a file with server commands and start Freeciv with the -r option to read that file.

A default player name or default nations cannot be set, as far as I'm aware, but my Freeciv knowledge is rusty.

Andy House · Answer

The server file or CLI can help you setup players
there are commands for levels of difficulty

hard
normal
easy
commands like that

there are also commands for the number of AI players that appear by default
set aifill 3
makes sure that AI players will fill up the number players to 3
if you set that value to zero
set aifill 0
you can create new AI players as well and depending on the build, set the AI package for a player and a name for the player
create [name] [aitype]
allows you to create a player with [name] and then give it a particular [aitype], such as classic, for instance
Hope that helps

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