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Re: Some bug fixes and some advice needed



On Fri, Jun 18, 1999 at 01:12:51AM -0700, Carlos Y. Villalpando wrote:
> 
> Hey all.
> 
> Tom, sorry if you get this twice, but I'm not sure if you are on
> vanilla-l and I wanted to make sure you got this.

I am.

> INL robot problems reported by d4sand,
> 
>         - if game that is not ROM/FED ends, and players return to start
>           another game, they can't be captain because "you must pick
>           a team first."
> 
> This is because inl_reset switches it back to home-FED/away-ROM at the
> end of the game, but not the tournmasks.   There's two ways to fix this:
> 
>   1) A brain-dead-simple fix.  Just don't reset the teams flags.
>      Home/Away ports will join as the previous game's teams for the
>      pre-game. No impact there.
> 
> And
> 
>   2) A simple fix.  At game end, change the tournmask and obliterate
>      everybody to make them re-join FED/ROM. 
>
> I've tried both, and both work, but since I don't run or really
> participate the INL, I defer this decision to those who have a bigger
> interest in it. 

I think 2) is better.
 -Tom