Designer Notes for Diplomacy on Vassal version
2.7.
Michel Decré (mirec_delech on vassalengine group in yahoo!groups).
Version
0.1
Date:
Sep 6, 2006
Current
“best” version.
User’s
Guide and About added.
Setups
loaded and Palette hidden.
Version
0.10b
User’s
Guide and About added.
Setups
loaded and Palette hidden.
Realized
while making the User’s Guide that the Coastal Centers would cause problems
because the inland region center could be controlled by A, the northern coast
by B, and the southern coast by C, for instance, all reporting to the VP
window.
-
Solving
that issue by creating coastal center prototypes and pieces.
-
Re-installed
Moved marker.
Version
0.09test
Date: Aug
28, 2006
-
Added
button images
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Saved
several game setups
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Corrected
bug on Russian “send to national center” commands for mos, sev, war
-
Added
victory points window and inventory window.Abandonned idea to develop own
victory points engine. Used the inventory tool.
-
Coupled
the center control to the winter season.
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Copyright
added on map and map included in 350 dpi res.
-
Removed
round nation counters
Version
0.08test
Date:
Aug 26, 2006
-
Test
version to develop the victory points engine
-
Hasbro
TM and Parker 1977 copyright added on map, but somehow the jpg rescaling didn’t
respect the dpi setting of the previous version. Needs
to be corrected. Restored to older Diplo-map.jpg.
Version
0.08
Date:
Aug 26, 2006
-
Turn
tracker from Brent Easton’s Turntracker v1.8
Version
0.07
Date:
Aug 26, 2006
-
Added
national counters. (will prove redundant when control centers will have been
coded in later version for Victory Points management)
Version
0.06
Date:
Aug 26, 2006
-
Non-controlling
powers have no access to other powers’ pieces
-
Referee
can delete pieces
-
Removed
the Pre-defined setups at this stage, as it prevents from starting a New Game
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Added
restricted commands to hide “Back to Pool” when in Pool
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Added
commands when in Pool that allow to send pieces directly to their national centers
Version
0.05
Date:
Aug 26, 2006
-
Tries
to sort out the problem of non-controlling powers: restricted access must be
specified after the definition of the commands to be restricted
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Adds
the designer notes file.
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Lots
of problems occurred due to not clear effect of adding properties to all pieces
in palette menu... austria smeared everyting away... :(
About image
from Bradley Eng-Kohn on www.boardgamegeek.com
‘s Diplomacy page