Who wrote Real-Time Client?

[tbontob]

Who wrote Real-Time Client?

The reason for my question has to do with the game crashing when PBW goes down.

I am wondering if RTC could be modified not to crash by giving it's user a choice.

Here's a prospective scenario....
-The user starts RTC and the player is merrily imputing his data.
-PBW goes down
-As it stands now, everything is lost.
-The question is whether RTC can be modified to allow the turn completion(the following is only one possibility).

A window opens informing the user that PBW is down and gives the player the choice of either
a) completing his turn which will be saved to the "savegame" file or
b) accepting the disconnection with the consequence of having to start all over again when PBW starts up again (as we do now).

If a) is chosen, the player "happily" continues with the imputing of his turn. When the turn is completed, another window opens to inform the player that the turn is saved to the "savegame" file and he will have to manually upload it or e-mail it as an attachment.

I do not think this will require any drastic revision of the RTC code.

The question is "Is it doable?" and if so, will the creator of RTC be willing to make the changes?

[geoschmo]

It's on the to do list. Admiral wrote it and he is no longer involved in PBW having moved on to bigger and better things in life. We have a guy that does code maintenance and adds features and whatnot. This is one that is on the list to do, eventually.

Geoschmo

[tbontob]

Thanx Geo

The prospect of PBW going down while using RTC is not too much of an issue in the early game (which is where I am with my games).

But I can see it becoming a factor when one is into the 200th or 500th move where hundreds of decisions have to be made and possibly wiped out with PBW going down...

To be fair, you did mention the potential for disruption by PBW going down when I made my decision to use RTC.

[tbontob]

Actually, the modification could be even simpler...

When PBW goes down, a window opens saying something like:

PBW is down. If you wish to continue, your completed turn will be saved to the savegame file as "xxxxx". You will need to either manually upload it or send it via e-mail as an attachment.

And then for those of us who suffer from short term memory loss , at the time the game is saved...

Your completed turn has been saved to the savegame file as "xxxxx". You will need to either manually upload it or send it via e-mail as an attachment.

[Gimboid]

Hmm, i was thinking that such a pop up would say "Connection to PBW server lost. Your game turn has been saved as file XXXX in your \Savegame directory" or the like, not far off what you already said

Then once connection to PBW can be reestablished (even if RTC is exited then restarted at another time when a PBW connection can be made) and you select the specific game that had already saved that you had already played that game turn for, it would ask if you would like to send the game turn that you already made or delete it and replay the turn

[tbontob]

Gimboid, good points.

What I was trying to do was suggest a minimum upgrade consistent with saving the data already inputed into the game.

My thinking was that there is a greater likelihood of getting a simple upgrade within the near future than if we asked for a more complex upgrade.