Originally posted by RussI see why it's annoying for you, but I don't really see why it's annoying for everyone else. The green dot also appears if someone pops in to make one move and then goes offline again. Now it can appear when you haven't been online at all, but is it really that much of a difference?
I was referring to the headache required to 'fix' it. But yes, annoying for everyone else too.
-Russ
I guess I am dumb and / or a bad interaction designer, but I cannot seem to get this functionality to work properly. This alone will get it a bad grade from me. The first one of this site.
It said it saved my conditional move, but then when my opponent actually makes the move I predicted (hooray!), I have to make a conventional move again. Boo.
Originally posted by NordlysWell, it can be annoying to some, there are thousands of active players here. It just makes sense that when we are psychically offline the green dot should not appear. Some people may prefer that.
I see why it's annoying for you, but I don't really see why it's annoying for everyone else. The green dot also appears if someone pops in to make one move and then goes offline again. Now it can appear when you haven't been online at all, but is it really that much of a difference?
If it is a big deal for Russ, we sure can learn to like it as it is.
Originally posted by AikoDid you give it 10 minutes to make the automatic move? Seems too long to me, but that's waht Russ said.
I guess I am dumb and / or a bad interaction designer, but I cannot seem to get this functionality to work properly. This alone will get it a bad grade from me. The first one of this site.
It said it saved my conditional move, but then when my opponent actually makes the move I predicted (hooray!), I have to make a conventional move again. Boo.
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Futher thoughts -
There are some situations where instead of 'when this happens, respond this way' you want to say 'when this does not happen respond this way'.
For example - my next move, I can take a piece and win the game. My opponent has exactly ONE valid move to prevent this, but 15 or 20 other perfectly valid moves.
So instead of recording the state of the board to which I respond, I'd like to record the state of the board to which I will not respond - with a given move - and maybe make this optional - there might be cases where I want to move a certain way regardless of the opponents move.
Recording the position is obviously OK - but switching the logic around to allow this would be a headache.
First - it would have to be a 'next move' feature, rather than - 'when the board looks like this' feature as conditional moves are currently - otherwise it might match all the time.
Second there would have to be a whole load of validation that the 'move' you wanted to happen was valid still (the intended move could have been blocked for example, even though the position to be avoided was not reached).
What does anyone think to that?
Originally posted by orangutanWell since you asked..
What does anyone think to that?
I don't like it. One, it's hard to implement for the reasons you mentioned. Secondly, it encourages people to play bad chess. Whenever your opponent makes an unexpected move, you should stop and ask why did your opponent make that move before continuing.