[Freeciv] Re: Tournament suggestions

[Reinier Post <rp@xxxxxxxxxx>]

>       We should have a PID (personal identification) in each client.  We can 
> use
> this for tracking and for scoring reasons.  Anyone have comments on this?

I won't have any time to work on it this month.

>       For scoring.  I know that Paul stated that the scoring in Freeciv is 
> still
> kinda poor.  He said he won a game, but wasn't #1 on the point list.

I commented on this earlier this week; for tournaments I think the scoring
formula should be configurable, and the criterion when to end a game should
be configurable as well.

> If we're
> going to have a winner based on points, then this is something that is going
> to need to be a bit more accurate that the current system.

Not necessarily.  If a tournament wants to score players by the number of
tiles occupied by warrior units, why not?  Using unexpected scoring functions
targets may create a more interesting game.

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Reinier