Re: [pbmserv-dev] quoridor problems

[John Williams <williams@morinda.com>]

On Mon, 7 Oct 2002, Douglas Zander wrote:

> Richard and others, I am looking into Quoridor right now and thinking
> of how I could arrange it so the players always move up even in 4-player
> games.  Would this be a Good Thing(TM)?  :-)    I think usually everybody
> just likes to move up when it is their turn, is this a correct assumption
> I can make?  :-)

I thought about that, but it would change the meaning of '/' and '-' if
you are East or West.

> > That may have been a change made for the 4 player version.
> > (else in the 4 player version, it's too easy to confuse the
> > left-right players...)
> >
> > On Sun, Oct 06, 2002 at 11:18:39PM -0500, Douglas Zander wrote:
> > > Hello, I wish to ask who last worked on Quoridor?
> > > It seems that on the newer boards, the direction that a player
> > > moves is down, while on earlier (older) boards the direction is
> > > up.  How can that be?  On board 157 when it is my turn I am moving
> > > down.  While on an earlier boared (136 IIRC) I am moving up when it
> > > is my turn. (both are two player games)  I believe the four-player
> > > option was installed between 136 and 157???
> > > Was this just a one-time fluke or did anyone else notice this happening?

That might have been me.  There's no flipping/rotating in the four player
version.  I'll check and see if disabled it for two-player too.  (doh!)

~ John Williams