Dubman25
commented
10 years ago As per a previous email, Smiles is working on the Skirmish screen.
Keith
On Oct 23, 2014, at 3:39 PM, Patrick Graham notifications@github.com wrote:
There should be a skirmish creation screen where a user can start a battle between two bots of their choosing.
One selection may be limited to their own bots or both their bots and system bots.
For the other selection a user should be able to see a list of the public bots.
The list should be reasonably sized, so after the potential list grows to long it should be a partial list. If the list grows too long we should limit it somehow, perhaps randomly until we reach the point where we need to consider better solutions such as grouping them into categories.
The lists should maintain a user's privacy
We should never expose the URL of a bot unless the user who created it asks us to. We may even not want to expose consecutive primary keys for bots because that could open up potential ways a user can infer the id of a bot that is not public, rather we can create temporary references to the bots using something like a shortcode generator. The shortcodes can reference the public bot, but be changed when the privacy settings for a bot are changed.
The Skirmish settings should be configurable
Things like start time, and time between moves can make it easier for the battle to be viewed. Privacy settings can prevent the battle from being viewed by everyone, or allow it to be published as a public event from elsewhere in the site.
Once two bots are chose the user can launch a battle
The battle room should have a Signal R setup where people can watch the battle live from various machines. The URL for the battle should be a randomly generated id.
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Pharylon
There should be a skirmish creation screen where a user can start a battle between two bots of their choosing.
One selection may be limited to their own bots or both their bots and system bots.
For the other selection a user should be able to see a list of the public bots.
The list should be reasonably sized, so after the potential list grows to long it should be a partial list. If the list grows too long we should limit it somehow, perhaps randomly until we reach the point where we need to consider better solutions such as grouping them into categories.
The lists should maintain a user's privacy
We should never expose the URL of a bot unless the user who created it asks us to. We may even not want to expose consecutive primary keys for bots because that could open up potential ways a user can infer the id of a bot that is not public, rather we can create temporary references to the bots using something like a shortcode generator. The shortcodes can reference the public bot, but be changed when the privacy settings for a bot are changed.
The Skirmish settings should be configurable
Things like start time, and time between moves can make it easier for the battle to be viewed. Privacy settings can prevent the battle from being viewed by everyone, or allow it to be published as a public event from elsewhere in the site.
Once two bots are chose the user can launch a battle
The battle room should have a Signal R setup where people can watch the battle live from various machines. The URL for the battle should be a randomly generated id.