Re: [pbmserv-dev] Werewolf/Haggis code

[Richard Rognlie <rrognlie@gamerz.net>]

On Wed, Jul 28, 2004 at 09:29:52AM +0100, Geoff Hubbard wrote:
> Questions:
> 
> Why is the challenger not automatically joined up to the game?

Not sure other than "challenge" does not include an alias option

> lastmove: This seems to be currently irrelevant in the werewolf code
> except as a measure of inactivity on a board/game level. Does anyone
> object to me simplifying the code by removing it for the players?

Please do not remove last move.   It's how nags/etc operate.

> There is a Cleanup commad that does the nags, does it matter that this
> can be called by anyone? (I expect not).

It can not be called by "anyone"   it can only be called when ARGV[1]
== 'Cleanup'   but all player arguments in pbmserv.pl converts all
player submitted moves to lowercase 'cleanup' which would be an unknown
request.

./werewolf Cleanup is a pbmserv commandline option.

> Can anyone see any problem with using the much simpler Data::Dumper to
> dump and load game data structures out to file rather than the current
> rather 'clever' save game implementation?

How would that affect hand tweaking of data files when necessary?

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