Hmmm,
my attempt at ordering the judge to give me the history for our game all
lead to syntax errors...
Any tips for me?
"Chris Babcock" <cbabcock@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
news:20080118202159.43bbb1c0@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 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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