Re: [Rails-devel] Making Rails more suited to fast interactive play.

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

That's a lot of requests!  Thanks for thinking through all these
consequences.

Some comments below.

Erik.

 

Van: Chris Shaffer [mailto:chr...@gm...] 
Verzonden: donderdag 17 maart 2011 15:09
Aan: Development list for Rails: an 18xx game
Onderwerp: Re: [Rails-devel] Making Rails more suited to fast interactive
play.

 

This may not be possible, but I'd like some options to allow players to keep
control of their version of the game and prevent loading a new file if the
polling shows it's someone else's turn.  I imagine it would be annoying to
be looking at the stock market or be reviewing the game log, and suddenly
the game loads a new file and it's not even my turn yet.  In the event this
isn't possible, can we at least ensure that the window positions are
remembered, so if I'm looking at the stock market on a small laptop screen,
it isn't suddenly replaced with the map because an auto-load occurred?

 

EV: A 'suspend polling' menu item should be easy to add.

 

Perhaps let the polling interval be player configurable?

 

EV: I already proposed that.

 

When reviewing the log, if a player backs up and starts stepping through it,
we need to be sure this activity doesn't generate save files.


EV: Not sure, but I think we cannot allow stepping through the new-style
report window during polling.  Perhaps we have to fix the report window, to
what it was the old way.  Or is flipping the report window too slow?

 

Will there be a configurable visual indicator (flashing? noise?) to tell me
that the polling has discovered it is my turn?  So I could turn off the
audible alarm if I'm sitting at my computer real time, but turn it on when
I'm running to the kitchen to make coffee?  

 

EV: I already proposed a popup. Not sure if sound is possible in a
platform-neutral way (I have no experience with programming sound).

 

And the task bar would flash to let me know it's my turn when I'm checking
my email.

 

EV: Isn't that too platform-dependent? I would have no clue how to do that
anyway.