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Inactive + email

Thu, 26 June 2014 07:10

XAPBob

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Is there a reason why you can't be inactive (i.e. not hold up gens) but still get turns emailed?

(Clearly there is currently some logic in the code, but I was wondering if that logic was deeper seated than a simple decision.

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Re: Inactive + email

Thu, 26 June 2014 12:26

Altruist

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2nd post to make thread visible

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Re: Inactive + email

Sun, 29 June 2014 22:28

Ron

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That was the way I setup it up in 1997 when I got Stars! AutoHost going. I guess my thought was that if an inactive player wanted to check on the game, they could bring up the game's webpage.

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Re: Inactive + email

Mon, 30 June 2014 04:41

XAPBob

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I suspect it would be nice to decouple the settings.

As a host I tend to put an email address of mine in for all players - then I have scripts which automatically sort them by game ID and year.

Parsers can then run over to extract things like all instances of "one of your ships was destroyed when you ran into that minefield" (potentially indicative of damage "allocation/tanking". Or they can generate the various universe wide reports (so resource/planet/base count per player per year, all in one nice spreadsheet)

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Re: Inactive + email

Mon, 30 June 2014 13:42

skoormit

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Ron wrote on Sun, 29 June 2014 21:28

That was the way I setup it up in 1997 when I got Stars! AutoHost going. I guess my thought was that if an inactive player wanted to check on the game, they could bring up the game's webpage.

"If there are two different ways to implement a feature, the one you choose is the right way."

--skoormit's 1st law of software design

"Regardless, someone will eventually ask you to change it."

--1st addendum to skoormit's 1st law

What we need's a few good taters.

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Re: Inactive + email

Mon, 30 June 2014 14:52

XAPBob

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Absolutely - I see the logic in the decision, I just wondered if the decision merited a revisit after nearly 20 years.

Think about bandwidth and storage back them (crikey), but now it is virtually unlimited. Even my non smart phone has enough storage to happily deal with a virtually limitless number of Stars! files...

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Re: Inactive + email

Thu, 03 July 2014 15:11

Ron

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skoormit wrote on Mon, 30 June 2014 13:42

Ron wrote on Sun, 29 June 2014 21:28
That was the way I setup it up in 1997 when I got Stars! AutoHost going. I guess my thought was that if an inactive player wanted to check on the game, they could bring up the game's webpage.

"If there are two different ways to implement a feature, the one you choose is the right way."

--skoormit's 1st law of software design

"Regardless, someone will eventually ask you to change it."

--1st addendum to skoormit's 1st law

Ron Miller
Stars! AutoHost

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