[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Logport

[Daniel Sjölie <deepone@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2002-10-11 12:17:17, Mike Kaufman wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 06:41:49PM +0200, Christian Knoke wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> this is a fairly good idea. In my now-old client authentication patch,
> people could connect to a running server as a non-player and check
> information like the current turn/year, how much time is left, and who the
> other players/connections are.
> 
> I might also suggest adding an option to the server that prohibits turns
> from ending early. For example if game.timeout_exact = TRUE then the server
> would not end the turn even if all the players hit end turn. It would wait
> for the end of the timeout.

I believe that either turnblock, fixedlength (existing servervariables)
or a combination of these would do what you want...

/Daniel

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