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Re: Duelling with Dropbox

Mon, 21 February 2011 15:48

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m.a@stars[/email] wrote on Mon, 21 February 2011 15:10]Hmmm, I gather it could be better (particularly if there's more than 2 players involved) to just use a local computer to generate turns from local files (so one player would actually be a Playing Host) and use the DropBox folder just as a convenient way to get x files and distribute m files, perhaps assisted by handy batch files to automate things. Teleport

Is it possible to use DropBox that way? Sherlock

Yup.

Though that would mean that one person would still have to move the *.x files from the dropbox folder, generate the turn, then add the *.m files back to the dropbox folder.

It would be simpler to just put a password on the host file, if you do want to keep generation ability with only 1 player.

Even batch files would still negate some of the ease that dropbox gives, in the fact that the last person submitting the turn can generate* and the game keeps moving on.
Having a shared dropbox folder from which all players play is convenient.

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		Duelling with Dropbox By: gible on Sun, 20 February 2011 17:37
		Re: Duelling with Dropbox By: Void on Sun, 20 February 2011 18:59
		Re: Duelling with Dropbox By: Altruist on Sun, 20 February 2011 19:41
		Re: Duelling with Dropbox By: nmid on Sun, 20 February 2011 22:42
		Re: Duelling with Dropbox By: m.a@stars on Mon, 21 February 2011 15:10
		Re: Duelling with Dropbox By: nmid on Mon, 21 February 2011 15:48
		Re: Duelling with Dropbox By: donjon on Mon, 21 February 2011 15:55
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