Re: [Rails-devel] Autopass & RequestTurn

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<DIV>Sounds excellent.</DIV>
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<DIV>As an RSA employee, I'm bemused by this RSA conference advertising which I presume is being inserted by the Sourceforge forwarder in all your messages.</DIV>
<DIV>If you chase the link it just goes back to SF and resolves into&nbsp;nothing&nbsp;special, or that mentions&nbsp;the RSA Conference.&nbsp; What's up with that?</DIV>
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<DIV>Dave. Jan 18, 2010 04:48:40 PM, <A class=parsedEmail href="mailto:rai...@li..." target=_blank>rai...@li...</A> wrote: </DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: rgb(102,153,204) 3px solid">Autopass is now available as an extra button in the Status (&amp;SR) window only (not yet in the Start Round window). In addition, I have added a generic Request Turn facility, which can be used in any case where a user that normally would not get a turn could request one, provided that a situation exists where that would be valid. I'm currently aware of two such situations: - a user has autopassed but wants to unset that for any reason, - in 1830, a user has the M&amp;H and wants to swap it for a NYC share anywhere in between other player's SR turns or company OR turns, out of that player's normal stock turn. The rules allow this, but we couldn't implement it so far. In such a case, the Special menu will be highlighted (for all players) and will contain an entry "{player-name} requests turn". This is now only implemented for autopasses. If that menu option is selected, the autopass will be reset and the player will normally get a turn. This action must be taken *before* the previous player finishes his/her turn, otherwise the turn will already have passed to the next player after the player who autopassed. Then the only way to get that turn is to undo the last move and have the previous player set the turn request as yet, before redoing that last move. In hotseat or moderator play this will be no problem. In PBEM-like play via dropbox, the requesting player should ask the current (or any other) player to execute this action before finishing the current turn. I am thinking of a way to automate this and give the player who wants the turn to do this himself. I am thinking to have the requestor's program save a file named like "18xx_playername.requestturn" and have all other players program copies check for the existence of such a file, and, if found, execute the request behind the scenes, before checking who the next player will be. That file should then be removed immediately. The possibility to do this depends on whether or not the Rails copies of all players can delete each others request files; does anyone know that? Any comments on this approach? Erik. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Throughout its 18-year history, RSA Conference consistently attracts the world's best and brightest in the field, creating opportunities for Conference attendees to learn about information security's most important issues through interactions with peers, luminaries and emerging and established companies. <A class=parsedLink href="http://p.sf.net/sfu/rsaconf-dev2dev" target=_blank>http://p.sf.net/sfu/rsaconf-dev2dev</A> _______________________________________________ Rails-devel mailing list <A class="parsedEmail parsedEmail" href="mailto:Rai...@li..." target=_blank>Rai...@li...</A> <A class=parsedLink href="https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rails-devel" target=_blank>https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rails-devel</A> </BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></html>