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Autpost · Posted: Mon Aug 08, 2005 2:24 pm GMT Post subject:

10 years ago I've played chess and studied those literature. In chess books you've got pictures of the board showing the position of the figures. An online game would look better if there are photos of the current situation. This is the reason why I have not read those game posts. - You have to read carefully from the beginning and keep in mind how the game is developing. Confused

It's like blind chess (= playing without figures; just by saying 1.) e2-e4 e7-e5 2.) ...)
I don't know how you are playing those games, do you also place dice played by your opponent in front of you (if you own them) to have an overview of the situation? If you have a digital camera you can take a photo. Sure it's an extra work, but it will help us bystanders.

Funny comments (as well as serious (post mortem) comments) are for me an improvement - If they are written in a different way (italic or another font). You need not read them if you just want to follow the game. (But I don't want to look them up somewhere else.)

You can also number the turns.

Deeghter · rare Joined: 03 Mar 2005 Posts: 2553 Location: Lost

Yes, during the game we place all dice on our table at home and follow every move (the opponents moves, too) by moving the dice.
If you don't own them, use pieces of paper, write the unit and rarity on it and off you go! Very Happy

(still better than not seeing what's going on)
Since you don't have to roll your opponent's dice, papers are OK. You always know how many and what kind of units are placed where.
If you don't have a certain die, then don't use it in your army.

Fotos are a nice idea but that would eat up web space since you would have to leave them in the web for future readers, too!! (not to mention forum space!)
We've had 59 posts in my first game and I guess at least 50 of them used for our game! You have to put the pics somewhere in the web to show them here and they must be of a certain size to recognize the dice (thumbnails aren't big enough!)!! Rolling Eyes

Imagine maybe 20 pics per game and per player! Now calculate that for a four player game!!

You'd end up with hundreds of pictures on your webspace after just a few games!

BTW, I use the "Dragon Roost" on my battle ground as reserves and Dragons, Kins, minors etc. are placed off the board!

Nice idea but hardly to realize, I'm afraid! But it would be an option for an e-mail game, since you can delete the pics after the game.
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Autpost · Posted: Mon Aug 08, 2005 6:21 pm GMT Post subject:

Deeghter · rare Joined: 03 Mar 2005 Posts: 2553 Location: Lost

I guess I have to refuse your suggestion just for your BUA example!!! Laughing

In fact, your table doesn't look bad!
Could you please tell me how you've found this page?? I didn't even know that this table exists!

And I don't know if we will be allowed to use the pics!?
Chuck??
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Deeghter · rare Joined: 03 Mar 2005 Posts: 2553 Location: Lost

Just tried to make a table like that based on our present game set up. It's giving me the creeps! It takes hours and is very confusing to place the pics!
If I now imagine a four player game..... Confused

Sorry, but I'm not hot for this "table job" Laughing

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chuckpint · Posted: Mon Aug 08, 2005 7:38 pm GMT Post subject:

Well, not quite zero, but certainly no large amounts of space more than most other posts. Die(ter), all he did was use the BBCodes for making a table. If you don't know how to do that, just click on the BBCode link that is under "Options" in the lower left corner any time you are entering a message. It takes you to a nice help page for all the BBCodes. The images are simply the little images that show up in your signature. The directory on the website is http://www.sfr-inc.com/bb/images/logos/ The names of each image is pretty easy to figure out. Only weird ones are the Scalder and Frostwings. The ones with no suffix are the originals, with "_r" are the reprints, and with "_p" are the promo versions. Also note that there are no spaces in the names, only underscores.

Hmm... Cliff was talking about doing something to learn PHP. Maybe a little tool that made making up the "playing board" a bit easier would be a cool little project.
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Deeghter · rare Joined: 03 Mar 2005 Posts: 2553 Location: Lost

Yeah, I figured it out by looking into his post using the quote button.
And I found the picture links, too.
Maybe I'm just too tired by now (3:40 am), so I'll try it again tomorrow.

It's just a little confusing at first to figure out where to place the pics in the table code but now I know that it is simplier than it looks Embarassed

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Autpost · Posted: Tue Aug 09, 2005 4:36 am GMT Post subject:

Deeghter · rare Joined: 03 Mar 2005 Posts: 2553 Location: Lost

When I "fought" with that table last night (assisted by a couple of beers Wink

) I had the idea to enter the terrain dice, too! Thanx for taking care of that, autpost!

Maybe Chuck can add the pics of them into the image list so that they have the right size??

Magestorm!'s missing, too, as far as I noticed.
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Autpost · Posted: Tue Aug 09, 2005 5:26 am GMT Post subject:

chuckpint · Posted: Tue Aug 09, 2005 5:41 am GMT Post subject:

I'll have get this done after GenCon. And still I'm taking a week long family vacation right after GenCon, it won't be until September. But someone remind me around September 1.

Hey that means I beat Steve to be the first rare poster! Next threshold is 5000 for Monster. Got a long way to go on that!
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My collection is 21,500 Dragon Dice, 20,000 Daemon Dice, and others (too many to count).

Deeghter · rare Joined: 03 Mar 2005 Posts: 2553 Location: Lost

Deeghter · rare Joined: 03 Mar 2005 Posts: 2553 Location: Lost

OK, I took the time to create a dice-set up-table in our forum game (right after Steve had gotten his "disaster" with his dice.
It's not that difficult but takes a while to finish!
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cliffwiggs · Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2005 6:55 am GMT Post subject:

Autpost · Posted: Fri Aug 12, 2005 2:53 pm GMT Post subject:

Here is the table code for a 3-player game:

cliffwiggs · Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2007 12:11 pm GMT Post subject:

chuckpint · Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2007 5:15 pm GMT Post subject:

Server-side Java? No. Perl and PHP are the only languages the server has installed.
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My collection is 21,500 Dragon Dice, 20,000 Daemon Dice, and others (too many to count).

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