Here's what I think quackle needs in list of importance. 1: Endgame solver / pre-endgame solver 2: Windows compatibility 3: Easy way to configure board to sim/find moves 4: faster sim 5: More efficient strong player 6: Directed sims (i.e. what % does op bingo after this play, what % does up get 40+ points on the triple you opened, allow to give knowledge of op's rack. this can start off small and grow as time goes on) 7: Better strong player (knows how to deal with racks where straight sims don't give the right answer, I believe I've already emailed Jason/John about this, along with possible algorithms) 8: Choice for op (choose whether comp plays like gibson or like trey, and what difficulty level)
Here are things you might want to implement in order I'd like to see them: 1: Background simmer (sims while you're thinking, stores the results, and displays them at the end of the game when you review) 2: Snapshot review (after game Quackle tells you what the key mistakes were) 3: Randomly generated puzzles/ esp endgame puzzles (I might be able to come up with algorithms to help with this) 4: Hint mode (optional on each game, before you commit to a play and miss the star play, Quackle tells you to 'look harder' or gives more pointed hints like 'you can bingo' or 'look for hooks') 5: missed play tracker (quackle keeps a log of what words you miss most often. This log can be uploaded to an online repository As always, if I can help on any of these let me know. But being that my actual knowledge of computers gets ridiculed daily, my help would probably only be good in coming up with algorithms and such. -Aaron Oh, and fix the bug where when you enter a one tile play you don't have to specify direction... __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/quackle/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
