[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Logport

[Christian Knoke <chrisk@xxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 04:45:55PM +0300, Veli Mankinen wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> 
> PROBLEM:
> 
> I just started to play freeciv with my friends and we decided to use
> 12h turns. This means that all the players will disconnect from the game
> after each turn and then wait for his/hers next turn. 
> 
> The problem with this is that it could be that the turn changes after 10
> minutes or 10 hours after the player disconnected and freeciv does not
> seem to have a way to inform the outside world about this. The only way
> to know if the turn has changed and to get information about who has not
> yet done his turn seems to be that one connects to server with a client
> and gets the turn-blocking mode lines.
> 
> I think the game could go on more fluently if one could see this
> information from somewhere outside the game.

AFAIK the current year is sent to the metaserver. So you could set
up your own metaserver and make it send a mail to the players, when
the year changes, with a little script.

Christian


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