Re: [Rails-devel] Autosave/load revisited

[Scott P. <sc...@re...>]

Thanks, Erik.  I Autosave/load a quick try.

A few comments:
* Popup appears under the active window (why?)
* Not evident enough whose turn it is (would it be possible to change the
background color of the interface or something more noticeable like that
when it is my turn?
* I don't see the advantage of restricting player moves to the local player.
When we play a live game online, often one player executes several SR
actions when players are doing rote actions like floating new companies.
* Any reason to restrict the polling interval to every 10 seconds?  Could it
be allowed to be done every second?
* Why do the complex actions cause errors?  Is it because player input is
needed outside of the normal turns?  If any player could enter commands for
all players, would that fix it?

For reference, I have played a few live games using Rails/Dropbox and it
already flows pretty smoothly without the Autosave feature.  We use voice
chat.  During the private auction and SRs, we typically have had one player
enter commands and the others tell him what to do.  Once we get to a complex
decision or an OR, we have that player save it and "transfer control" to the
active player.  This speeds things up quite a bit over what I would assume
the current version of Autosave/load.

I think that removing the restriction on the active player would make this
feature into something I would use on a regular basis.

FYI, we managed to play a game of 18GA in about 2.5 hours, which is about a
half hour faster than my experiences using the physical components.