SpielByWeb

[torstenson]

Hi,

Your online Wallenstein implementation is terrific, but I did think of one small improvement you might consider making (if you run out of better ideas and are bored):

Allow players to select their colour.

When I play face-to-face, I always choose the same colour, if possible because it helps me to remember which units are mine. In a game like Wallenstein which has historical connections and themed player roles, I also learn to identify with a particular warlord, and associate other roles with particular players. Maybe I'm just wierd!

Anyway, I'm not sure how difficult it would be to implement this feature, but this is how I would try doing it:

In each player's user profile, allow them to rank the available colours (this same ranking could also be used for Bus -- assuming it has colours; I've never played it).

When the game starts, the system can automatically assign colours to the players by placing them in a random order, and then have them in turn "draft" their marker colour based on their specified preferences. The highest-ranked colour that has not yet been chosen by another player is assigned to the player. If more than one player wants a particular colour, then they may not get what they want, but this is no different than in face-to-face games.

With this approach, players only need to set their preferred colours once, not for each game. Also -- if players don't care what colour they get, they can just not bother to assign a ranking (or rank colours equally) in their profile. They'll then be assigned a colour randomly from those remaining after those with preferences take their picks.

[HighwayStar]

Great idea! We should all be able to pick our own color. I could be red on my screen, but green on someone else's so he/she could be red also. They'd be some other color on my screen. That way, we could always be the color we want on our screens, which is all that really matters.

Even better, would be to allow each player to assign all the colors for his/her screen. That way you could order the colors based on the score. It'd make multiple games easier...

Steve

[Adversarian]

I was going to add this as a request as well. Make is so you can choose your own player color. The site could handle people choosing the same color by displaying it correctly for the current player.

Thanks,

Adversarian

[Bkruppa]

If we're picking colors I would like periwinkle!

[Omnipotentus]

[mrbass]

The way you describe it Omnipotentus is exactly how Sea3D implements it for Settlers of Catan online.

[DangerMouse]

[freduk]

personally, I'd rather the developers spent their time bringing us new games...

[HappyProle]

Me too.

[RyanMC]

[Omnipotentus]

Yeah bringing new games is way cooler

but being able to be my favorite color is also not too bad either
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