Re: [Rails-devel] Game Options

[John A. T. <ja...@ja...>]

Brett Lentz wrote:
> Incorrect. Colossus supports a fairly large number of variants and
> dynamically updates their game options window based on the variant. Try
> playing some of the 9 or 12 player variants that even use an alternate
> master board.
>   
I think of that like selecting options within the game.  Ie, optional 6 
trains or unlimited diesels are variants for 1830.
> More to the point, all of the games are examples that allow the user to
> configure their game options in any order they choose and then starting
> a new game is what actually initializes the game engine.
>   
My point is that when I sit down to play a game, the first thing I 
decide is which game I want to play, and then I decide which options I 
want in that game.  You don't get some players together FTF and decide 
"ok, we want to play with optional 6 trains" then figure out which game 
you want to play that has that rule -- I don't see any reason that 
playing it in Rails should be any different.  Now you may want an easy 
way to change the selection of the game, but to me that just seems like 
going back a step to select a different game and then you redo your 
options starting with the default of the new game.

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