Talk:Substitute System - Revision history

Mirvin Monkey: /* Problems */

2005-12-30T01:49:39Z

Problems

Defrag: /* Problems */

2005-10-06T17:38:55Z

Problems

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2005-10-06T17:38:32Z

Problems

Defrag at 17:37, 6 October 2005

2005-10-06T17:37:50Z

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===Problems===
We need to come up with an elegant way of handling the swapping in & out of substitutes. It has been suggested that one designated person on a team should have control of whether a person should be swapped out, and a substitute brought in, but this causes a problem in itself.

* How would one designate this person? (queue? priority assigned? What happens if a soldier lags out and a medic is the #1 priority sub? Problem!)
* What happens if this person lags out and requires replaced?!
* How do we keep track of what the team sizes (excluding subs) ought to be?
* How do we know that the substitute being brought in is actually at the computer? (Ask all subs to indicate their presence by pressing a key?)

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	* How do we keep track of what the team sizes (excluding subs) ought to be? Is this necessary for it to work?		* How do we keep track of what the team sizes (excluding subs) ought to be? Is this necessary for it to work?
	* How do we know that the substitute being brought in is actually at the computer? (When a sub is requested, ask all subs to indicate their presence by pressing a key?)		* How do we know that the substitute being brought in is actually at the computer? (When a sub is requested, ask all subs to indicate their presence by pressing a key?)
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		+	====1 possible solution====
		+	I think this should be kept lot simpler. I see it more as a case of the player joining a team, then maybe in the class select they can select to be a substitute. It's shown clearly on the scoreboard what they are, and if they choose to become a class (and therefore join the game proper) then its immediately obvious to everybody (announced to the server in the same way that a spectator joining a team would be).
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		+	I don't think it needs a huge amount of policing in any way, so long as the other team can tell when the sub becomes a player and vice versa then I think we can leave it up to them to the clans to sort out.

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 * How do we keep track of what the team sizes (excluding subs) ought to be? Is this necessary for it to work?
-* How do we know that the substitute being brought in is actually at the computer? (Ask all subs to indicate their presence by pressing a key?)
+* How do we know that the substitute being brought in is actually at the computer? (When a sub is requested, ask all subs to indicate their presence by pressing a key?)

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 * How would one designate this person? (queue? priority assigned?  What happens if a soldier lags out and a medic is the #1 priority sub?  Problem!)
 * What happens if this person lags out and requires replaced?!
 * How do we keep track of what the team sizes (excluding subs) ought to be?
 * How do we know that the substitute being brought in is actually at the computer? (Ask all subs to indicate their presence by pressing a key?)