Re: [Pio-temporary] Regarding GGZ (RFE #641445)

[Bas W. <sh...@fm...>]

On Sat, Oct 01, 2005 at 05:43:31PM +0200, Roland Clobus wrote:
> Hello all,

Hi,

> For a while I had been thinking about using GGZ for a chat room in the=20
> meta-server. GGZ offers functionality to join and leave games, start=20
> new games, add computer players, chat before a game starts, etc.
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> But I'm running Debian, and GGZ in Debian has for a long time been an=20
> old version, and recently it has been removed from the Debian=20
> repository.
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> So what should I do with that old feature request? Shall I close it,=20
> or is there another alternative that is worth looking into?

I don't know about others (and actually I don't know about GGZ either), but=
 if
GGZ is the best solution, then it should be packaged for Debian again.  If
there are plans to use it, I can look into that.

> I have an alternative for a chat room in the meta-server:
> If there is a .game with only one land tile, and a required number of=20
> players of more than two (or perhaps 99), that game can never really=20
> be started nor finished, and thus serve as a kind of chat room.

I just noticed that games with 0 players can also be started, which make
everyone a viewer.  Obviously nothing is going to happen. :-)

It would be good to implement the "public name" in the meta-server to be
descriptive instead of the reachable "reported hostname" (which should not =
be
removed).  Then the server can be called "Chatroom" or so.

> I'm willing to run such a game on my firewall computer, and register=20
> that game at the main meta-server.
> Players could first join this 'game', make arrangements about new=20
> games to be started, and then (re)connect to a real game that is=20
> hosted by one of the players.

Sounds good, at least as a temporary solution.

Thanks,
Bas

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