Re: [Rails-devel] please allow simple player text-messages/annotations, within main save-file & report window

[Erik V. <eri...@xs...>]

OK, but please note, that if we allow players to add messages out of turn,
the acting player name must be added to that action. Without that, the game
engine cannot know that it's not the current player who entered that
message. So we would have to add a player name selection choice list to the
message entry control, unless (in a PBEM game) the local.player.name
property is used.

Erik.

-----Original Message-----
From: John David Galt [mailto:jd...@di...] 
Sent: Saturday 14 August 2010 21:13
To: Development list for Rails: an 18xx game
Subject: Re: [Rails-devel] please allow simple player
text-messages/annotations, within main save-file & report window

Erik Vos wrote:
> This is a very interesting idea, and I understand that such a feature
would
> be much more useful that the existing editing option.
> 
> The main issue is about the sequence of actions. You say: "Instead, we
want
> to be able to simply associate a message-text with each move" and "from a
> user-interface pov, the 'current player' is speaking". If taken literally,
> this would mean, that the message should become part of the move*, and
that
> the message must be entered _before_ the move is completed and executed
(by
> pressing "Pass", "Buy", "Done", "Lay Tile", etc.). This way, we can easily
> ensure that a message becomes part of the move and is logged, saved and
> undone with it. (The messages would always be displayed either before or
> after the existing move text.)

I like this idea but would make the message a separate "action".  (This
might
mean you're allowed to send messages out of turn, or only that each turn in
PBEM games has to end with the "Done" button so that you have a chance to
enter messages before ending your turn.)

If messages are allowed out-of-turn, then a player who uses "Undo" within
his
turn may have to undo somebody else's message to reach his own action.

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