[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Looking at the score (PR#1469)

[Reinier Post <rp@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 12:40:55PM -0700, rms@xxxxxxx wrote:
>       The conndlg patch (which
>     won't make it into this upcoming release, but should be in the next one (I
>     hope!)) adds a button to get this score.
> 
> Good, that solves it.
> 
>                                             Note that it will pop up the
>     score on every human player's screen -- so they will all know someone's
>     checking.
> 
> I don't see the motivation for that--why not just assume that everyone
> knows the score whenever he is interested?  In fact, why not display
> it all the time?
> 
>       The conndlg patch (which
>     won't make it into this upcoming release, but should be in the next one (I
>     hope!)) adds a button to get this score.
> 
> Good, that solves it.
> 
>                                             Note that it will pop up the
>     score on every human player's screen -- so they will all know someone's
>     checking.
>
> I don't see the motivation for that--why not just assume that everyone
> knows the score whenever he is interested?  In fact, why not display
> it all the time?

Having an opponent pop up a window in front of you is very annoying.
I too think that this would be a much better solution.

> By the way, it would be nice to output something about how the score
> relates to the raw data, the various subtotals that contribute to it,
> etc.

This is a good idea, but the score reveals information that players may
want to hide for strategic reasons, and the server should allow them to.
I suppose the overall score can be made just another variable in the
"demographics" server variable, which already governs how much info
is displayed in the Demographics report (F11).

-- 
Reinier