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

[Phil D. <de...@gm...>]

I'd definitely favour the least intrusive approach, anything that
could steal focus is considerably annoying and this is treated
differently across different OSes.  Certainly if you can turn on or
off notifications that would be nice, I'm prone to playing in spare
moments so the ability to just bring the screen up and see if it's my
turn yet rather than being prompted for it would be great, I
definitely see this more as 'streamlined pbem' rather than an attempt
to do proper realtime play (which will be better suited to a proper
client/server architecture)

Phil

On 18 March 2011 01:56, Rick Westerman <wes...@pu...> wrote:
>   Lots of interesting comments on this proposal.  Erik's willingness to implement this -- in some form and then make it better -- is greatly appreciated.
>
>   My gaming partner and I looked over Erik's proposal and it seems fine to us.  Further refinements could include a 'poke' option -- a way to remind a person that it is his turn (although I see no way to do this given the current Rails method of sharing files; it seems more doable in a client-server type of arrangement.)   Another refinement might be a way to do messaging among the players -- although once again this seems more suitable for client-server.)
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>   Another suggestion would be to have rapid checking for new files and then slowing down later.  In other words in immediately after submitting one's turn then checking every 10 seconds (as an example) may not be too often.  On the other hand if the other players are taking time to complete their turns, then checking every 30 seconds or so should be fine.   We are thinking of those sometimes interminable stock rounds that can occur where is it might be "player A pass", "player B pass", "player C" pass, "player D do something", "player A pass" and so on until "player D" runs out of things to do.  If the time delay between each player is 30 seconds then the SR could take a long time.
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>   As for the following.
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>
> ----- Chris wrote: -----
>> Actually, I would be fine with Brett's more graceful approach. My
>> answer was that a popup would suffice, not that it is preferred. I'd
>> rather have the notification area solution, as long as it only bugged
>> me when it was my turn.
>
>  Bugging when it is person's turn and being silent (or at least quietly in the log file) when it is not is important.
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> Thanks again,
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> Rick
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