On Fri, 18 Jan 2008 20:48:13 +0100
"Athanat0s" <n_jonker@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> So I joined one of your games. It turned out one game was waiting for
> a player to play England, so I joined.
That was a novice game. England got booted under my policy of "Grace is
not an entitlement." For novice games, I get all the press messages so
that I can step in to help with common problems - sending passwords
with press, misunderstanding rules and just never getting around to
playing once the game starts. If a player is late for spring of 1901,
especially in a novice game, then the chances of them completing the
game are practically nil. When a novice player is late for the first
turn *and* hasn't even sent press, I just boot him from the game rather
than make all the other newbs wait for grace to expire and suffer mass
abandonment in fall.
> I noticed that an error message I got took about 20 minutes to
> arrive. I had typed signin instead of signon, and my broadcast didn't
> arrive. Just when i started wondering whether maybe you don't get any
> broadcasts that you send yourself, I got the message.
> I do feel it's not overly clear that it's an error message. it simply
> states "Signon command not encountered." I'd like something like:
> Error, mesage not sent, reason:etc", but I'll probably get used to
> this.
Error messages are not always clear, but don't let Jeremie Lefrancois
get away with that shameless plug. We worked long and hard to get
him to rephrase his error messages so that they almost made sense. :-p
I hope Stabberfou gets some traction. It's a good project.
> One question that remains: How do I get to see a map of our game? Or
> do we generate the first one after move 1?
You'll want to get a history of the game from the beginning so that you
can read all of my helpful broadcasts. :-D
Chris
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