Re: Simple questions

["tuan (t.) doan" <>]

In message "Re: Simple questions", '' writes:

> And to follow up with what Petri said:
>
> While there may be reasons to pause the game, there is no fair way to
>implement it.  If you are playing with 4 people, and one person pauses the
>game, you could do the following:
>
>1) Everyone is paused, and only the person that paused it could unpause it
>2) Everyone is paused, and everyone could unpause it
>3) Only the person that paused it is paused.
>
> In case 1, a person could make a sever unusable by pausing the game.
> In case 2, it doesn't do much good, unless everyone agrees they want the
>game paused.  IF they don't, and they unpause it, you will probably be in
>big trouble.
> In case 3, it is unrealistic, and would let anyone come to your rescue (ie,
>your are about to get killed.  You pause it, and wait for your friend with
>a healing spell get to where you are..)
>
> As for saves:  If you die, you should permantly be dead.  The fact that you
>were able to restore from your last save point was a bug.
>
> --Mark

4) Everyone is asked if global pausing is ok; if so, everyone is paused.
   A paused timer is used (default to 1 min; and can be changed by admin)
   When the timer poped, the game unpaused automatically or asked everyone
   if they want to paused for another paused period; if _everyone_ agreed,
   then the game paused for another paused period.

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