Re: [pbmserv-dev] Scramble -tournament

[Scott Huddleston <scotth@ichips.intel.com>]

Hi Doug,

I don't remember the discussion you refer to, but there's plenty of
precedent for game options (including "-tournament") and actual
tournaments being completely independent.

Plotto uses a (very poorly named) option "-tournament" to select
a variant plotto game.  I don't know if any other games support a
"-tournament" option.

Setting up specially named tournament boards (and special tournament
timing restrictions) at present is completely independent of
game challenge options.

- Scott

>I was just wondering if you should use the special word "-tournament" for your
>plan, Sharkey.  might we save this for actual tournaments?  I thought there was
>a game where we used the special word "-tournament" to designate a special game
>board or something for tournament plays.  People might get confused and think
>that this is for setting up a special tournament amoung many players.  Or was
>this just something that was discussed but never implemented?  I thought we
>discussed using the option "-tournament" to automatically set up a tournament
>with several players and auto start the many boards?  Was this ever implemented
>in any of the games on the server?  Was it supposed to be implemented in the
>core game.cpp module(s)?  Does anyone remember this discussion or am I just
>going batty? :-)