Who sets color&name?

[lucasb-eyer]

Currently I think it looks like this:

• connection
• serverside player (incl. color/name) generated, sends only newplayer message.
• client gets newplayer, generates his own color/name
• server still busy creating/sending cards
• client sends a wantChangeName and wantChangeColor
• server still busy sending cards
• server sends its server-side generated color/name in a playerinfo
• server finally gets client request to change color/name
• server broadcasts client's color/name in a playerinfo

I think the color is the server's task (pre-generate as many distinct happy colors as max players) and the name should be server-random too, but the player can change it after the fact.

We could then store a player-selected name clientside in an offline-storage and the next time he connects he will request a namechange automatically.

How does that sound?

[lucasb-eyer]

Now that the server (potentially) knows of a maximum number of players, he could just generate the distinct colors. I want hue might come in handy.

[vsupalov]

I love that idea. The allknowing server of greater color mastery, as well as the usage of offline storage. In addition to this, I would like to introduce a unique client id, which can be used to identify with to the server, so people can reconnect to games without hassle (or security :).

[lucasb-eyer]

Good point. Open a second ticket for the userid so we can discuss that.

[lucasb-eyer]

just for the record: working on this.

[lucasb-eyer]

21 Days later: fixed the colors in 02b9af2d0f

[vsupalov]

Sometimes it takes 21 days and a new library to get things done.