Turn Off/On options during a Solitaire game

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ORIGINAL: Dabrion

United States of Amendment? What kind of police state are you living in that you need an NDA for yourself

Police state of Matrix I guess [:(] What I have is a beta testing game from Matrix that is what I use and have been using since I joined the beta team. I use no Matrix new game disk to do testing and I imagaine that when an AI add on comes along I will have to pay for it just like anyone else.

Bo

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ORIGINAL: Mike Parker

ORIGINAL: Shannon V. OKeets

ORIGINAL: Zartacla

I wouldn't object to being able to turn on/off certain optional rules in the middle of a solitaire game. I was a few hours into a game once before realizing I hadn't turned on extended aircraft rebasing. That was a bit of a bummer. In a solitaire game, I don't see any harm in letting players change options on the fly - but it's not something I would fight for one way or the other.

Optional rules drive a lot of the code. I set up toggling some of them ON/OFF for the beta testers but even then only for maybe half of the optional rules. It is just too easy to have changes mess up the game's internal variables completely.

Some optionals like the one mentioned extended rebasing should be easy to impliment, probabl limited overseas also things like that. Anything that changes the counters would be well nigh impossible I would think. The danger would be making the game unstable. I would love to have toggleable optionals just for no other reason as to be able to take a situation and say use the 1d10 blitz then the 2d10 and get the feel for the difference.

BUT with that said I would not suggest using one iota of time working on this. Got plenty else on your plate!

I think an option to change a optional rule in a solitaire game is a very good idea, I dont know how many times in beta testing that I left out a rule I wanted in and forgot. And of course it always happens after new game Global war where it takes a while to set up all the nations[:(]

Bo

[Mike Parker]

Yep Bo I agree it woul.d be nice... just think it might be kinda hard to forsee the bugs it might introduce so I wouldn't want it tking up much of the development time right now.

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ORIGINAL: Mike Parker

Yep Bo I agree it woul.d be nice... just think it might be kinda hard to forsee the bugs it might introduce so I wouldn't want it tking up much of the development time right now.

Ugh! did you have to mention bugs, their crawling all over me right now [:D]

Bo

[Centuur]

ORIGINAL: Dabrion

We get it, people only want to hear the nice stuff.. Also does it mean you didn't pay for the game or someone else paid for you?

Let me put it this way. No, I don't want people to here the nice stuff only. However, anyone who've signed that NDA has limits on what he can write.

And yes, long term beta testers didn't pay for the game. That's not a secret.

[AxelNL]

Short term testers got a small discount voucher. I paid the whole nine yards at Essen as that was before I got the voucher. Including the maps.
The difference with customers like Dabrion and Zartacla is that I had already experience with the status of the game. I still paid the 150 Euro's. Glad to be able to support this Once-in-a-Generation project.

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ORIGINAL: AxelNL

Short term testers got a small discount voucher. I paid the whole nine yards at Essen as that was before I got the voucher. Including the maps.
The difference with customers like Dabrion and Zartacla is that I had already experience with the status of the game. I still paid the 150 Euro's. Glad to be able to support this Once-in-a-Generation project.

Wow AxelNL deep pockets I like it.[:D] listen my grandaugter is 19, beautiful girl 5 feet 11 inches tall, looking for Mr deep pockets if your married she doesnt care [;)] do you know any other rich friends in the Netherlands, shes willing to move on a minutes notice. hmmm hates cold weather though.[:(] I warned her if she went that there are a lot of dikes in Holland holding back the North sea it could be very dangerous, she said no problem we have plenty of them in college. My son pays 45,000 dollars a year and this is what he gets for his money[:D]



Bo