Re: Fixing score system

[Mario Wenzel <maweki gmail com>]

I think, Aisle Riot is not actually part of gnome games. At least it
isn't mentioned here: https://wiki.gnome.org/GnomeGames/ , even though
this mailing list is listed in its doap-file.

As far as I know, we also do not collaborate or release in concert with
Aisle Riot. This may be for historical reasons, I don't know. Maybe we
should look into rectifying this.

Mario

Am Montag, den 18.11.2013, 11:43 -0800 schrieb Brewster Gillett:
> On Sat, 2013-11-16 at 14:21 -0600, Michael Catanzaro wrote:
> > About gnome-robots
>
> > * Fix score system (requires setguid)
>
> While we're on that subject, I should like to raise the question of
> scores behaviour in Aisle Riot software. It seems to behave differently
> for different games. Some of them are consistent, and others are not.
> The worst offender is Diamond Mine; I have sat here and witnessed it
> creating entirely bogus "best time" stats literally out of thin air -
> "best times" that not only nobody here has ever attained, but are so low
> that the probability is quite good that they are unattainable. Diamond
> Mine just seems to create these stats at whim. It will go along over
> several games maintaining the best and worst times exactly correct, then
> jump in the next time and overwrite the previous best with some
> ludicrously short time from, apparently, its own imagination (does
> software possess imagination<g>?) 
>
> Oddly, it never alters the "worst time" stat. I find that fascinating.
>
> About the only other Aisle Riot solitaire game I play with any frequency
> is Free Cell - and Free Cell has *never* exhibited this behaviour. So it
> would seem clear that something is amiss in the code for Diamond Mine.
>
> I am not competent to dive in and try to fix it myself, but perhaps
> Mr. Catanzaro has some ideas....
>
> Thanks for any help,
>
>
> Brewster Gillett