[Posting] Re: Maintenance-free functions
From:streu
Thread:Maintenance-free functions
Forum:Bugs
In reply to:Re: Maintenance-free functions
Date:Wed, 2020-06-17 16:03 GMT

My question is: is there a way to make the host hold from the player side, without contacting webmasters? Let's say my game will host in 4 hours and it's 1AM in my country, I have no time to make my turn (a good played turns needs 2 hours minimun around turn 30) and I need to sleep. Let's say I can not contact Streu right then, my only hope is to send a message and pray he opens it before the hosting. But perhaps the tokens may enable a button in the game page to hold the next hosting, is that possible?

I think the basic idea of token-based "maintenance-free functions" is to eventually allow that.

However, I don't consider that an action that needs support. That's the equivalent of that guy who always calls half an hour before your party that he won't come, so you now have too much pizza and too little beer.

Personally, I do most of my turns at the earliest possibility. My Operating System Theory class taught me that this scheduling method is called Earliest Deadline First and gives me the same amount of processor utilisation spare time as doing it at the latest-possible time.

Even if I don't complete the turn on the first try, there's the "this is not my final turn" checkbox, and if I fail to finalize my turn, I still have something done instead of missing the entire turn.

--Stefan