[Freeciv-Dev] Re: [PATCH] spyoncmds, /endgame, mintimeout 40, used on ci
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[Freeciv-Dev] Re: [PATCH] spyoncmds, /endgame, mintimeout 40, used on civserver.freeciv.org |
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Reinier Post <rp@xxxxxxxxxx> |
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Thu, 23 May 2002 22:36:22 +0200 |
On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 04:24:58PM -0400, Brandon Craig Rhodes wrote:
> Reinier Post <rp@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
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> > The mintimeout40.patch is essential to a public gameserver, where
> > setting the timeout to 10 or below effectively destroys the game.
> > I'm not sure if it should be applied to CVS.
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> I believe that it should not be applied. I often like experimenting
> by deliberately losing early and setting the timeout to 1 to let the
> AI players thrash it out among themselves, which would not be possible
> without recompiling if there were a hard-coded limit.
Yes, I've done that, too.
A better solution would be to allow the minimum timeout to be fixed
at pregame time; we've discussed this, but there is no code for it yet.
--
Reinier
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