Re: How multiplayer is working out for you guys...
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magnate said:
How does the server notify you when the turn has been hosted (using quickhost)? With a PBEM it's there in your email. Assuming you don't want to stay permanently connected to the game server, how do you know? If you wait a couple of days (when you expected the turn to run), you lose all the benefit of quickhost.
Am I missing something?
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There are switches for --preexec and --postexec which will gladly run a routine before or after running the host. In a strictly PbEM game Im guessing it would be used to email the turn files to each player. In a server game it shouldnt be hard to have it email a "HEY! the turn is DONE" message to the list of players (or IM or even a text message to my cell phone). Of course I would also probably use --preexec to make sequential backups of the .2h files before doing a host, and run the game with the --scoredump so that the --postexec can coy the score.html to a webdir for people to check on. Maybe some other neat tricks.
I LOVE that the server will run text-mode on a linux server. It makes doing things like that SOOOooooo easy. Im not sure how you would accomplish any of it on other systems but its there to play with.
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