Re: [pbmserv-dev] Scramble -tournament

[John Williams <williams@tni.com>]

Richard has a different method of setting up tournament games.

I don't think it makes sense to make -tournament a game option to start
several games between different players, although I could understand
reserving -match for a series of games between the same players.
Most likely a tournament starting command would be standalone somehow.

Besides, there is prior art.  See plotto.

~ sharkey


On Fri, 29 Apr 2005, Douglas Zander wrote:

> 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? :-)