LRB5 Clients

This page is a repository and index of current efforts to implement a LRB5 rulest compatible client.

• SkiJunkie's JavaBBowl:

The current FUMBBL client is SkiJunkie's excellent JavaBBowl. SkiJunkie has been otherwise occupied in recent times.

Christer wrote this on the thread LRB 5.0 coming soon?:

"This thread is far too long for me to read right now.

However, since so few people are likely to know this, I'll let you know that I talked to SkiJunkie about inducements a LOOOOONG time ago. In fact, we talked about it back when the vault ruleset was introduced way back.

What was said then was that SkiJunkie didn't want to include any roster logic into the client, so the client wouldn't be able to know what positions was available to the team in question.

So, the site needs to deal with it. However, I have a personal grudge against "locking" teams into a game before the client starts, so the website doesn't actually know who you are playing against until the game is actually started.

I will not make the site include a pre-game sequence. It's cumbersome for the end-users (ie, you). Playing the game should be as easy and painless as possible.

Also, SkiJunkie doesn't want to make the client dependant on FUMBBL.

The solution that both SkiJunkie and I agreed on was that the client would check the roster for a link to an inducement datafile, much in the same way the client currently forces certain options. That way, the client would actually send a request to the website specified in the roster used asking for a list of possible inducements for a particular team. That way, the client wouldn't need to keep a database of things, but still deal with the selection of inducements at startup.

Now, this is technically possible, and in all honesty not extremely complex to implement. However, both SkiJunkie and I have limited time to spend on implementing it, so it takes time.

The inducement system is technically the most complex part of the vault ruleset as far as I can see. Team Value calculation is already implemented on FUMBBL (as you can see on your team edit page), so providing a list of inducements would be the major feature for the FUMBBL end to implement.

And, of course, supporting the updated rosters which is mainly a matter of typing in the data more than anything else."

• Kalimar's FFB Client