Eliminate a player : zombie or not zombie

[Alkazar]

Hi,
I'm currently working on Dxxxxi and it's going quite well (I would say that 70% of the game is more or less ok even if I know the last 30% are going to be the most difficult ), I'm having some questions, the first one being what to do with a player who is definitively eliminated from the game.

At first I thought that I would put them into zombie State and that the game would expel them automatically but:
- the zombie state is apparently not checked until the player has made one action(and went into a yet unsupported game state )
- the expelled player gets a penalty and is considered as having left the game intentionally.

I could put an extra variable to do exactly the same as Zombie mode, but the player would have to stay until the end of the game without being able to do a single action.

[sourisdudesert]

Hi,

I've just updated the documentation with a paragraph specific to Zombies:

http://en.doc.boardgamearena.com/Main_g ... ombie_mode

As soon as the player leaves the game, he become a zombie. But your "zombieTurn" method will be called only at the time this is the turn of this zombie to play.

I don't know if I answered your question?

[Alkazar]

Well : yes and no .

Now I know zombie mode is not the solution, since the game doesn't count for statistics (and the expelled player is penalized).

The problem is now to devise a solution for eliminated players.

The problem is that they will have to stay in the game even though they have lost.

[sourisdudesert]

Okay, I get the point.

No, we have no solution for this now, but we should have.

Here's what I propose: for now, do nothing. I'll try to introduce some "mark player as eliminated" function before you released your game.

[sparr]

Is this the appropriate "new" functionality? http://en.doc.boardgamearena.com/Main_g ... limination