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Thanks, Chase

Posted By: Chase
Date: Wednesday, 10 March 2010, at 2:34 p.m.

In Response To: Thanks, Chase (Gregg Cattanach)

I don't consider this a bug, but simply a notational style. Either dice number can be played first, so either can be considered the hitter, or both, thus the pointing on head description. The play of 11 after a split to the 20pt is often notated 8/7(2) 6/5*(2). One could argue that the last 1 doesn't hit, so it should be 8/7(2) 6/5* 6/5. (I seem to recall that Jellyfish or one of the other early bots used this convention. I think FIBS has it 8/7 8/7 6/5* 6/5.) I'm with you in preferring the more more concise versions -- 8/7(2) 6/5*(2) or b/22* 23/22 (or even 25/22* 23/22) -- but they all seem proper, and clear, to me. 8/7(2) 6/5(2) (no indication that a hit has been made) is also okay, though I prefer the hit being shown explicitly, and with an asterisk instead of a lower-case x, which is sometimes used: 8/7(2) 6/5x(2).

I have a preference, and a strong one, for the style you consider correct, but as long as usage is clear and consistent within a context, it's all good.

On a related note, I go back and forth on whether I like the move from the highest point displayed first -- 24/20 13/8 -- or the that of the higher dice number -- 13/8 24/20. With the emergence of computer play, I'm leaning slightly toward the latter since it has become something of a convention that the higher dice be displayed first and moved with a left-click, while the lower dice is moved with a right-click or second left-click. (I find XG's implementation maddening. Even after hundreds of matches I'm constantly having to correct moves because dice are rotating when I expect them to move and vice versa. I've suggested to Xavier that an option to use "standard" left-click for high dice/right-click for low dice be added, so a player can match his mouse manipulations to that of his favorite server, but I digress.)

Anyway, as I say, it seems more of a stylistic thing to me, and I'm happy as long as I don't need a decoder ring to figure out what is meant. ;)

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