Results in BLIND games

Manus Hand <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.games.diplomacy.judge.dp.discussion
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DPjudgesters --

I am mastering, for some reason, quite a few BLIND games right now, and I
noticed the following idiosyncracy in the way results are given.  Here's an
example:

Germany: Army Burgundy SUPPORT Army Paris.
France: Army Paris -> Brest.

Neither Germany, France, nor I, as the Master, was told that the German
support was (*void*).

Naturally, I figured this was a bug, and I dove into the code to fix it.  To
my surprise, I find that this seems to be a documented feature, not a bug.
(In other words, I can't remember what I did a decade or more ago.)  Here's
the relevant comment from the code:

# In a BLIND game, no one is told when orders are "void".

It sure seems to me like I must have had a reason when I wrote that.  I'm
writing to ask you guys if you know why that might have been....  For now,
I'm leaving this "feature" in place, thinking there must be a logical reason
for it, but well, I'd feel better if someone could explain to me what I was
thinking way back then....

Manus
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