"Screens" and card-by-card GIB

[wyman]

Two things occurred to me of late.

 

1) When analyzing a hand, I'm always trying to click GIB strategically mid-trick so I can get a sense of what 3rd hand (for example) should have played. It would be great to have the "next" button move the trick card by card, rather than trick-by-trick. Alternately, an additional "card" button would suffice. At the moment, my alternatives are to cut half the URL and add card by card to the URL to analyze the hand or re-input the hand to bridgify when I've already got GIB running. Blech.

 

2) This seems like it should be simple, but maybe not. A "screens" option would be cool to put on a table. What I'd propose is that this optionally put a "screen", so that North and West see East and South's calls at the same time and vice versa [i will be embarrassed if it's supposed to be N&E / W&S, but I'm not used to real screens!]. We needn't change alert procedures for this to be effective. I understand that BITs occur in online games for a lot of strange reasons (phone, tv, dog, pot boiling over, whatever), but this seems to be an easy remedy. Maybe not urgent, but you know, if you've got a coder sitting around with nothing to do... :P

 

Thanks.

[BunnyGo]

Better yet, why not "screen" everyone individually? You only see everyone's bids and card plays when it's your turn to make a decision.

[paulg]

Better yet, why not "screen" everyone individually? You only see everyone's bids and card plays when it's your turn to make a decision.

It would slow the game down considerably as you cannot think on the other players' time.