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"Screens" and card-by-card GIB 2 random thoughts...

#1 User is offline   wyman 

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Posted 2011-February-18, 09:26

Two things occurred to me of late.

1) When analyzing a hand, I'm always trying to click GIB strategically mid-trick so I can get a sense of what 3rd hand (for example) should have played. It would be great to have the "next" button move the trick card by card, rather than trick-by-trick. Alternately, an additional "card" button would suffice. At the moment, my alternatives are to cut half the URL and add card by card to the URL to analyze the hand or re-input the hand to bridgify when I've already got GIB running. Blech.

2) This seems like it should be simple, but maybe not. A "screens" option would be cool to put on a table. What I'd propose is that this optionally put a "screen", so that North and West see East and South's calls at the same time and vice versa [I will be embarrassed if it's supposed to be N&E / W&S, but I'm not used to real screens!]. We needn't change alert procedures for this to be effective. I understand that BITs occur in online games for a lot of strange reasons (phone, tv, dog, pot boiling over, whatever), but this seems to be an easy remedy. Maybe not urgent, but you know, if you've got a coder sitting around with nothing to do... :P

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Posted 2011-February-18, 09:50

Better yet, why not "screen" everyone individually? You only see everyone's bids and card plays when it's your turn to make a decision.
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Posted 2011-February-18, 12:51

View PostBunnyGo, on 2011-February-18, 09:50, said:

Better yet, why not "screen" everyone individually? You only see everyone's bids and card plays when it's your turn to make a decision.

It would slow the game down considerably as you cannot think on the other players' time.
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