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jeffkaufman
Cross-game continuity
As discussed in #218, which has since been closed. Responding to @jeffkaufman.
resetting the game is almost always going to have to happen manually, because we need to fix whatever bug led to the person winning last time and clean up any messes they may have made.
That manual process is part of what I was referring to when I talked about getting the game ready to resume. But I think we could formalize the process to make a clear demarcation between an active game and an inactive/maintenance mode game, and distribute the burden of getting the game ready across players, rather than requiring that you do all the work.
I don't see any need for a winners file to be in the game itself, any more than there needs to be a list in my Power Grid set of who won each game.
Your Power Grid set doesn't have any carryover from game to game. This repo does, and in that respect games like Pandemic Legacy, which do track past results, would be a better analogy. If we had an agreed upon base state that we always wiped all the way back to, then I would agree with you here.
I think we could formalize the process to make a clear demarcation between an active game and an inactive/maintenance mode game
Is this something that's been unclear?
distribute the burden of getting the game ready across players, rather than requiring that you do all the work.
It's not much work; I'm happy to do it.
If you want to make a PR that lists all the people who have won a round that's fine with me!
I think we could formalize the process to make a clear demarcation between an active game and an inactive/maintenance mode game
Is this something that's been unclear?
Only in the sense of timing so far - you're the only one who has any control over the timing of when the game goes from maintenance mode into active mode. What I'm suggesting is that the players should collectively decide that the game is ready to resume.
That's fair. Lets figure this out after the current game ends if we have enough people who want to play again (since we're down to three now)