Re: XML, PBM and Refugee Scheme

From: "Enno Rehling" <schick.mir.spam@gmx.de>

Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 08:59:25 +0000

> Are our goals so different?  I remember allowing players to submit hand
> written turns.  I remember the pain of trying to figure out what they were
> writing!  I remember the anger the players expressed when we guessed
wrong.
> I simply want to eliminate as many errors as possible in playing the game.
> I want to be able to process the turns in an expedient manner and know
that
> if the player's 20 man positions attacks an army of 10,000 - the player
> wanted to do it; not some GM who simply was too tired to care.

Turn checkers, and KISS formats. We have 1400 players sending in turns every
week, and there's no manual work at allinvolved. In addition to a turn
checker on the client side, we have one on the server side that'll fire off
an email to the player if her turn is broken in any way - it does happen,
what with HTML and broken MIME, but we catch it in time for them to
resubmit.

No such problems here.

There's not only beauty in simplicity. There's also something to be won. We
have players on all operating systems (since our format is open), and
clients for linux, windows, os/2 - even the amiga. We have at least one
blind player who reads the turn with the help of a screen reader - by means
of a "natural language" report. In our case, that's made on the server, but
it could (and should) just as well be generated from the data that's being
used by the graphical clients. and the same goes for the data that's being
sent back: It's human-readable, even when generated by a gui client.

Enno.

References

Re: XML, PBM and Refugee Scheme
"Enno Rehling" <schick.mir.spam@gmx.de>
Fri, 09 Mar 2001 18:34:01 +0000
Re: XML, PBM and Refugee Scheme
"Talisman Games" <jon@paladin.net>
Sat, 10 Mar 2001 22:32:51 +0000
Re: XML, PBM and Refugee Scheme
"Enno Rehling" <schick.mir.spam@gmx.de>
Sun, 11 Mar 2001 18:44:24 +0000
XML, PBM and Refugee Scheme
MindShift Design <teammsd@mindshiftdesign.com>
Tue, 31 Oct 2000 16:02:52 +0000
Re: XML, PBM and Refugee Scheme
Tim Lomas <tim@nospam.antsnest.demon.co.uk>
Tue, 31 Oct 2000 18:14:14 +0000
Re: XML, PBM and Refugee Scheme
"KC Satyr" <sbrown79@kc.rr.com>
Wed, 01 Nov 2000 01:54:22 +0000
Re: XML, PBM and Refugee Scheme
David desJardins <desj@math.berkeley.edu>
Sun, 11 Mar 2001 18:21:07 +0000
Re: XML, PBM and Refugee Scheme
"Talisman Games" <jon@paladin.net>
Mon, 12 Mar 2001 02:09:49 +0000
Re: XML, PBM and Refugee Scheme
"Enno Rehling" <schick.mir.spam@gmx.de>
Wed, 01 Nov 2000 09:12:13 +0000
Re: XML, PBM and Refugee Scheme
"Talisman Games" <jon@paladin.net>
Fri, 09 Mar 2001 14:38:47 +0000
Re: XML, PBM and Refugee Scheme
"Talisman Games" <jon@paladin.net>
Sat, 10 Mar 2001 14:15:36 +0000

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Re: XML, PBM and Refugee Scheme
"Enno Rehling" <schick.mir.spam@gmx.de>
Fri, 09 Mar 2001 18:34:01 +0000
Re: XML, PBM and Refugee Scheme
"Talisman Games" <jon@paladin.net>
Sat, 10 Mar 2001 22:32:51 +0000
Re: XML, PBM and Refugee Scheme
"Enno Rehling" <schick.mir.spam@gmx.de>
Sun, 11 Mar 2001 18:44:24 +0000
XML, PBM and Refugee Scheme
MindShift Design <teammsd@mindshiftdesign.com>
Tue, 31 Oct 2000 16:02:52 +0000
Re: XML, PBM and Refugee Scheme
Tim Lomas <tim@nospam.antsnest.demon.co.uk>
Tue, 31 Oct 2000 18:14:14 +0000
Re: XML, PBM and Refugee Scheme
"KC Satyr" <sbrown79@kc.rr.com>
Wed, 01 Nov 2000 01:54:22 +0000
Re: XML, PBM and Refugee Scheme
David desJardins <desj@math.berkeley.edu>
Sun, 11 Mar 2001 18:21:07 +0000
Re: XML, PBM and Refugee Scheme
"Talisman Games" <jon@paladin.net>
Mon, 12 Mar 2001 02:09:49 +0000
Re: XML, PBM and Refugee Scheme
"Enno Rehling" <schick.mir.spam@gmx.de>
Wed, 01 Nov 2000 09:12:13 +0000
Re: XML, PBM and Refugee Scheme
"Talisman Games" <jon@paladin.net>
Fri, 09 Mar 2001 14:38:47 +0000
Re: XML, PBM and Refugee Scheme
"Talisman Games" <jon@paladin.net>
Sat, 10 Mar 2001 14:15:36 +0000