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#11859: "Must change game type to Deathmatch before I can lower the player count to 2"
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The interface blocked me to do some game action authorized by the rules
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• Which was the game action you wanted to do?
Set the number of players• What do you try to do to trigger this game action?
Clicked "-" on the maximum player count• What happened when you try to do this (error message, game status bar message, ...)?
I got an error message that says, "High Form is only available for 2 players, please use Deathmatch for 3 or 4."• What is your browser?
Firefox 64 Mac
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31. Jan 2019 1:20 • tabicat • Bug has not been reproduced by delopers yet:
When I create a new game, it defaults to HIgh Form and 2-4 players. If I click on the "-" to change the 2 to a 3, I get the error message, and it changes back to 4. I have to manually set the game type to Deathmatch, then change the player count down to 2, and then change the game type back to High Form.
6. May 2019 8:42 • Quinarbre • Bug has been confirmed by developers:
It's a shortcoming of the table creation page.
The previous version allowed you to change the player count even in High Form, but then people didn't understand why their game wouldn't start with 4p in High Form.
I agree it would probably be better to have by default min=max=2 players so that people don't get confused and only go up to 4 players after having set Deathmatch, but that's not something I can tweak in the gameoptions file.
The previous version allowed you to change the player count even in High Form, but then people didn't understand why their game wouldn't start with 4p in High Form.
I agree it would probably be better to have by default min=max=2 players so that people don't get confused and only go up to 4 players after having set Deathmatch, but that's not something I can tweak in the gameoptions file.
19. May 2019 5:39 • tabicat • Bug has been confirmed by developers:
Wouldn't it just be simpler to default to Deathmatch instead of High Form? Then you can change the number of players easily.
19. May 2019 17:09 • Quinarbre • Bug has been confirmed by developers:
Then again :
- I'm not sure there's a way to specify which are the default values (I guess they would be the first one for each option but I'm not even certain)
- Once you've started at least one game, the default values for you will be the last you used, so generic default values would have very limited use
- I think, and there is a general consensus, that the game is mainly intended for and far better in 2p High Form, so I'd like that to remain the default way of discovering the game
- I'm not sure there's a way to specify which are the default values (I guess they would be the first one for each option but I'm not even certain)
- Once you've started at least one game, the default values for you will be the last you used, so generic default values would have very limited use
- I think, and there is a general consensus, that the game is mainly intended for and far better in 2p High Form, so I'd like that to remain the default way of discovering the game
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