Re: Cat23's Very Own Site

> In case you don't have a judge built in already,
> Manus Hand has an excellent one written in Python -
> and he provides the code to anyone who wants it. (He
> used to, anyway).

Different judge. Manus keeps the spaghetti that passes
for the DP judge code pretty close to the chest these
days. The nJudge has seen continued development and is
available. The current release is 1.7.6. I run USAK,
USVG and a couple others.

The WM judge had some custom patches, probably just
changed the defaults so that games would wait for the
GM to force adjudication rather than performing it
automatically unless overridden at game creation. I
asked Ray about it once, but another judgekeeper had
set it up so he didn't know. I'm just guessing based
on what I know from using USAK as an adjudicator for a
couple DipWorld games. 

Worldmasters 2008 is going to use something different.
Players go to the map from a link in individual emails
and enter their orders in a text box. The site stores
the raw orders. At the deadline, the GM checks the
orders into the adjudicator so that players don't have
to deal with the computer interface. Once he clicks on
the "adjudicate" button, the players get copies of the
raw orders, the results and a new link to the map. 

If anyone besides Ray used the WMJudge, I could have
something similar in no time. Running judges is about
60% of my time in the hobby. The WM08 set up is going
to involve some traffic between my own server and the
Windows host run by the guy who wrote the adjudicator
code. Eventually It will be available to run
completely on a Linux host, but as long as part of it
is off-site I can't presume upon its availability for
other users besides WM08. 

Chris 




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