Password for hotseat (local) multiplayer
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Password for hotseat (local) multiplayer
I tried to play hotseat (local) multiplayer with my friends the other day. The problem is: there is no password and after a player presses "end turn" he will imediately see minimap of other player. Please do a simple password for each player that would hide minimap and position of units. It does not have to be sophisticated. Although it would be great a player can leave the saved game on friends computer.
Last edited by comecra on June 1st, 2012, 4:34 pm, edited 1 time in total.
Re: Password for hotseat multiplayer
It's nice to see what you trust to your friends.
I think this subject falls under FPI#14.
I think this subject falls under FPI#14.
Re: Password for hotseat (local) multiplayer
Create 1 more side per player, that has 1 unreachable nonleader unit and put it between each player side.
Re: Password for hotseat (local) multiplayer
2 xudojnik
I trust my friends. And these passwords are not to secure them from cheating but to dark my minimap and units locations for them to make possible local hotseat multiplayer with fog of war on.
2 Ravana
That's a good idea, thank you. But a simple password or proper darkscreen with button "press here to play second player" will make the game more enjoyable.
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It should be an option, not the default one. I personally more enjoy playing with my real life friends in hot seat mode. Unfortunatelly we have to disable fog of war because there is a bug that allows to see units of previous player at the beggining of your turn.
There are a lot of options. The most natural IMHO is just to make optional fullscreen non transparent form with big CLOSE button in the center. Or the thing might be done more neatly -- see heroes of might and magic design.
I trust my friends. And these passwords are not to secure them from cheating but to dark my minimap and units locations for them to make possible local hotseat multiplayer with fog of war on.
2 Ravana
That's a good idea, thank you. But a simple password or proper darkscreen with button "press here to play second player" will make the game more enjoyable.
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It should be an option, not the default one. I personally more enjoy playing with my real life friends in hot seat mode. Unfortunatelly we have to disable fog of war because there is a bug that allows to see units of previous player at the beggining of your turn.
There are a lot of options. The most natural IMHO is just to make optional fullscreen non transparent form with big CLOSE button in the center. Or the thing might be done more neatly -- see heroes of might and magic design.
Last edited by Iris on June 1st, 2012, 8:46 pm, edited 1 time in total.
Reason: Merged two consecutive posts.
Reason: Merged two consecutive posts.
Re: Password for hotseat (local) multiplayer
This is not related to FPI #14 at all. That concerns loading single player games, usually to get different results from the RNG. This idea relates to multiplayer hotseat, with no saving or loading involved.
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Re: Password for hotseat (local) multiplayer
While I do think that an intermediary screen (ala HoMM) that is neutral and just says "X's turn" and you click that to actually get to the other player's turn would be a nice touch, I'm not sure how high a priority it would be to include.
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Re: Password for hotseat (local) multiplayer
Unless some other developer replies, you can safely assume “patches welcome”.Thrawn wrote:I'm not sure how high a priority it would be to include.
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Re: Password for hotseat (local) multiplayer
You can get some idea of the priority from the fact that FR #3856 [Gna.org] has been open since 2004 (BfW version 0.8.8).Thrawn wrote:I'm not sure how high a priority it would be to include.
On the other hand, that feature request is only for an intermediary screen. Nowhere in that, nor in the two bugs marked as duplicates of it, nor in the two previous topics in this forum that I found regarding hotseat information sharing, is there any mention of using passwords. The original request here was almost exclusively for passwords; the desire to hide the map was basically squeezed in as an off-hand remark. A remark that I almost missed seeing the first time I read the opening post here. (My initial reaction was that entering a password each turn could be a major annoyance. Hiding the map does make sense, though.)