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

[Chris S. <chr...@gm...>]

I didn't notice that you mentioned a popup in the quoted section at
the top of your email.  There's nothing about a popup in the numbered
procedure list (items 1-4).  A popup is probably sufficient, but
audible alarms and/or flashing task bar would be appreciated.

If you can't use the new style report window during polling, that
would be a big loss.  I would expect to use the time while others are
taking their turn to plan mine, and reviewing previous actions is part
of that.  Maybe a button to say "I'm planning, don't make any saves"
would solve this?

Would it be possible to have an option for polling to only load a game
when it is my action, and have a further option for the the popup to
ask "it's your turn, are you ready to load the new file?"

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On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 8:08 AM, Erik Vos <eri...@xs...> wrote:
> That’s a lot of requests!  Thanks for thinking through all these
> consequences.
>
> Some comments below.
>
> Erik.
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> 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.
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> 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?
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> EV: A ‘suspend polling’ menu item should be easy to add.
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> Perhaps let the polling interval be player configurable?
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> EV: I already proposed that.
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> 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.
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> 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?
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> 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?
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> EV: I already proposed a popup. Not sure if sound is possible in a
> platform-neutral way (I have no experience with programming sound).
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> And the task bar would flash to let me know it's my turn when I'm checking
> my email.
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> EV: Isn’t that too platform-dependent? I would have no clue how to do that
> anyway.
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