[VANILLA-L:1340] Notes on INL Robot

[Tom Holub <doosh@best.com>]

I'm going to categorize things 4 ways here:

Holding Me Up On Stats (must be done by Monday)
Must Be Done By Monday
Would Be Nice This Season 
Long Term 


1) Holding Me Up On Stats

I put this at the top just because I am not sure when I'll have time to
work on the log parser, so the sooner they get done, the sooner I'll be
able to finish that.

* Log kill messages must include ship type.  Log beam-up messages should
include ship type.


2) Must Be Done By Monday, If It's Not Already

* HOME/AWAY should be disabled for now
* REGISTER command should work.  I'll make it easy for you, just have REGISTER
run PWstats.pl at game end and I'll have PWstats do the mailing.
* Base poof at OT start should not count as death
* Reset all player stats at game start
* Game-specific files should be moved to <filename>.<pid> after the game.
This include .players, .global, and INL_log
* Human-readable message log (watchmes | grep -v WRN) needs to be generated.
* Cannot join as guest
* Default team names, or force people to choose team name before START
* Always allow messaging while dead


3) Would Be Nice This Season

* Increase observer ports
* Rank increases at 5x, or some other method, possibly a sliding scale
where something like 20 DI gets you Admiral.
* Fix "gametime" message to be 2 lines if names are too long
* No iggy in pre-game
* Show time as minutes/seconds
* Message on port 2592 is friendlier
* .sysdef ability to disable INL/HOCKEY/TRIPLE voting

4) Long Term

* Have server save and generate statistics on its own
* RESTART command from both captains ends game, resets galaxy.
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