Re: [pbmserv-dev] Hearts and MHearts

[Lyman Hurd <lhurd@yahoo.com>]

I think that players who care about ratings don't want
games mixed that involve significantly different
games.  Those of us who don't really care...

Ted, I realized or extrapolated the history.  Similar
reason OctiLite didn't grow out of Octi (different
implementors).  Also Hearts seemed a bit of an anomaly
when the other cardgames on the server were blackout
and wizard which took much much longer.

This is a longwinded way of saying that MHearts is
appreciated!

Cheers,

Lyman

--- John Williams <williams@tni.com> wrote:

> It seems to be the whim of the programmer whether
> the variants are
> combined or separate.  I tend to use challenge
> options for variants,
> where others use a separate game, but maybe that
> means the variants
> don't get noticed as much.
> 
> Consider:
> 
>    Othello             loa (or) checkers
>    Reversi             loa -scrambled
>    ROthello            checkers -reverse
> 
> I even made DaiShogi a variant of ChuShogi, which
> may be going a bit too
> far, but neither is extremely popular considering
> the endurance it takes
> to finish a game.
> 
> ~ sharkey
> 
> 
> On Tue, 12 Oct 2004, Lyman Hurd wrote:
> 
> > 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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