Re: [pbmserv-dev] Hearts and MHearts

[Lyman Hurd <lhurd@yahoo.com>]

I agree.  First, I do like to be able to play wit that
old gang of mine.  I also really like the rhythm of
playing games by email since between work and kids it
is rare for me to have time to sit down to an
uninterrupted real-time game of anything.  When I do
have time I use it to play face-to-face at the local
game club (nobody comes in to insist that they have to
use the computer for homework, for example).

Maybe if Ted gets energetic he might consider merging
the two by adding a "once through" mode to mhearts but
at the moment there seems to be little harm in having
two.  After all,, Zrtz and Zertz+11 are separate games
for example.

Cheers,

Lyman

--- Mark Ballinger <mballinger@ballinger.cx> wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 11, 2004 at 09:53:15PM -0400, Randall
> Bart wrote:
> > Why are there two versions of Hearts on the
> server?  It looks like Hearts 
> > is a subset of MHearts, and serves no particular
> purpose.
> 
> hearts was the first game of the two games on this
> server.  The game ends after one hand, and the
> "winner" is the low scorer
> with tie going to the low trick taker. 
> 
> mhearts is multi-handed, going to 100 points.  It
> was only recently coded by Ted Rathkopf.
> 
> > Not that I am going to play either.  When I want
> to play Hearts I go to 
> > Pogo and play real time.  I see this server as a
> place for rarer games.
> 
> To each his own.  I like playing against people I've
> come to know, and I can rarely get a game going in
> real life.  It's also 
> a good programming exercise.
> 
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