From now, you can delegate control of your player by submitting your friend's name in Control delegation form.

Does anybody knows if there is some utility to make screenshots based on savegames (or game log) using some tileset (like trident)?

Regarding Marduk's ideas, I have another idea:

The idea is to turn the static Freeciv map (only dynamic during global warming / nuclear winter) into an always changing map, to make long games (like LTeX) more exciting.