Please consider the feature to allow entering real dice numbers.
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Alan Berlyn 🇬🇧 (66alan66)
Part of the fun of playing our game is shaking and rolling your own dice.
I believe it would be great to have this option when starting a match.
Input could simply be a text box for ‘52’, ‘33’, ‘41’ etc, which would be fast.
Players could use video call to show their dice if there are trust issues.
This would be a unique feature on online platforms.
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Backgammon Hub Admin
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John Georgiou (jedimaster01)
this has great potential as mentioned
i can totally envisage its application in a live tournament setting
this is the future of tournament backgammon in my opinion
real dice played online
less space requirements for participants, laptops are less space consuming than boards
transcription is automatic
no cheating or miscounting of checkers during movements
Also, playing like this will save so much more time which will allow for better quality and easier management of tournaments
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Ferri Dehmobedi 🇬🇧 (ferri123)
A fair suggestion if "implementable". If both opponents opt for this they could play a game with real dice. Again, not sure how much development would be needed - but if possible and feasible..
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Denis-George Constantin (playhunter)
Such feature can be used in offline tournaments (assuming attending people will accept to play on laptops but with real dice). They both should sit on the same part of the table (like students sit in a classroom) so they can see each other's screens. Then bye bye illegal moves. Also, as a bonus, the players will get match transcription without any effort.
But for online play, yes, webcam showing the roll is a must. It can be done with an additional usb webcam and a dice tower with a dice tray - this setup would be needed by both players, if each player will roll for himself.
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Alan Berlyn 🇬🇧 (66alan66)
Denis-George Constantin (playhunter) Additional webcam is only necessary where the players don't trust each other. Once you see your opponent getting terrible rolls as well as good ones, you'll learn to trust they are inputting the genuine rolls.
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Alfie Kirkpatrick [Developer]
Is this really something people want?? This seems like sticking forks in your eyes to me and a recipe for arguments... let's see how many votes it gets!
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Alan Berlyn 🇬🇧 (66alan66)
Alfie Kirkpatrick [Developer]In what respect sticking the forks Alfie? Tedious to input them? I think it would soon become second nature. Well worth it to know they're real dice rolls. However sophisticated computer rolls are, some (not me) will always doubt their validity.
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Anandan Tanabalan 🇯🇲 (cybrdr4g0n)
Alfie Kirkpatrick [Developer] 😂🍴 where's the down vote button?!