Re: [pbmserv] Re: Conway

[Lyman Hurd <lhurd@yahoo.com>]

Aside from the issue of aliases, there is another
feature of werewolf sorely lacking in the server's
other multiplayer games.  It would be great to
implement "join" across the board.  Starting a WW game
is much easier than mhearts, blackout, perudo, etc.,
since nobody needs to be emailed userids!

Of course one might want to add a feature to
auto-start when a desired number of players is reached
(in WW we just wait until the organizer feels there
are enough players).

Cheers,

Lyman

--- Mark Hartwell <hartwell@copper.net> wrote:

> 
> 
> Cameron Browne wrote:
> 
> > hartwell wrote:
> >
> >> I'm wondering if it would be too much to
> implement a (werewolf -alias 
> >> like) choice for user ID.
> >>
> >> So rather than hartwell and dzander playing as A
> and B ... hartwell 
> >> could be H and dzander could be D.  or any other
> letter he wanted to 
> >> use.
> >
> >
> > I couldn't see any mention of an alias command in
> the Werewolf help, 
> > but presume that you mean a command such as
> "-alias=H" that you issue 
> > during the game, not during the initial challenge,
> and which is 
> > refused if that letter is already taken?
> >
> 
> sort of ... werewolf doesn't use a challenge.  the
> game is created (by a 
> single player who is allowed to set the options)
> then it is joined by 
> the players who want to play.  (it might make sense
> to allow this in 
> other multi-player games, perhaps conway, perhaps
> risque) 
> 
> this is subject: werewolf join GAMNUM USERID
> USERPASS [USERALIAS]
> 
> most of the games have a silly theme like "what's
> for lunch?" or "places 
> you'd rather be" and people sign up with an alias
> like "leftovers" or 
> "hawaii"
> 
> the other thing about alias in werewolf is, it keeps
> a game  from 
> running into the next game.  towards the beginning,
> we had issues of 
> "last game, so-and-so started a bandwaggon against
> me, so i'm voting to 
> lynch him"  so alias keeps that from happening to an
> extent.
> 
> depending on the options, there will be a minimum
> number of players, 
> after that is met, the person who created the game
> starts it, the roles 
> are assigned and the game begins.
> 
> 
> > It should be straightforward but I'd hesitate to
> do so, since Conway 
> > is sequential in nature. For multi-player games
> it's actually good to 
> > have piece labels in consecutive alphabetical
> order so you can plan 
> > your moves knowing immediately who will move next.
> >
> i hadn't thought of that.  but most multi-player
> games have that issue.  
> so long as the order of play is listed at the top,
> and the aliases make 
> sense, it might not be a problem.
> 
> some letters might be a problem though ... capital I
> can look a bit like 
> lower case l (actually i gues the confusion is
> between 1 and l)
> 
> how does the order work now?  is it randomly
> assigned, or does it have 
> to do with the order the names were in on the
> challenge command?
> 
> 
> hartwell
> 
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