[Freeciv] Re: Hotseat play

[Tony Stuckey <stuckey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 08:44:48PM +0200, Karl-Ingo Friese wrote:
> I never heard "hotseat" as well but I guess that it means that the
> seat (in front of the computer) is hot. In other words: constant
> fighting for the keyboard control ;)

        Yes, that's it.
        It doesn't fit the Civ model very well, for many of the reasons
that Play By Email doesn't -- Diplomacy is very hard to do right, since
any back-and-forth discussions must be either incredibly strung out or
computer controlled with possible stored hints from the inactive human
players.  Attacks by other players also have to be stored for a turn so
that they can be displayed when the appropriate player takes the hot seat.
        There are just a LOT of little interactivity issues that crop up
when you try to do stuff like this.  Multiple clients on multiple machines
is much easier.
-- 
Anthony J. Stuckey                              stuckey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
"And they said work hard, and die suddenly, because it's fun."
        -Robyn Hitchcock.