Player "0" - Does it make sense?

[JDW]

Hello fellow Warzoners,

Hope you all are having a good Tuesday. Well, at least it's not Monday.

My concern is with the concept of having a position called player "0" in multiplayer and skirmish games. Sure we can all count from 0 to 7 , but from a simple gamer's point of perspective, does it make any sense having a player "0" ? Why not simply have Players 1 - 8 ?

If you're thinking that player 0 is assigned to the Host, well then, think again. As Host, all you need to do is change your location on the map and you're no longer player 0 .

So what's your take on this?

Regards,

JDW.

[NoQ]

Agreed, adding 1 to some numbers makes sense.

you're no longer player 0

You are still refered to as player 0 within scripts >.<

[aubergine]

Now that maps can support up to 10 players, I think starting at 0 has started to make sense from an end-user perspective - it means that you can still reference any player, even the 10th player, with a single digit.

[lav_coyote25]

after 10 plus years and this debate is still going.

[stiv]

If this makes your head hurt, think of it as a name - Player Zero, Player One... - rather than a number. We just use a number in the UI to save space.

[milo christiansen]

It makes perfect sense to a programmer

When programming everything is indexed from zero so you can do things like: (go code)

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for i := 0; i < count; i++ {
 [do Something]
}

And as for adding 1 to the displayed value, its easier not to.

[JDW]

If this makes your head hurt, think of it as a name - Player Zero, Player One... - rather than a number.

Thank you, I'll keep that in mind, kind sir

[bendib]

I really don't care about it. It's fine the way it is, lol.

[Iluvalar]

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for i := 0; i < count; i++ {
 [do Something]
}

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for i := 0; i++ < count; {
 [do Something]
}

[stiv]

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for i := 0; i++ < count; {
 [do Something]
}

A fine example of Stuff You Should Never Do.

[cybersphinx]

A fine example of Stuff You Should Never Do.

Mixing Pascal and C?

[vexed]

Now that maps can support up to 10 players, I think starting at 0 has started to make sense from an end-user perspective - it means that you can still reference any player, even the 10th player, with a single digit.

base 10 ?

Let's see... a 16 player map would be 0 - F

Time to use the alphabet instead of digits, then we can have 26 player maps.

[lav_coyote25]

Now that maps can support up to 10 players, I think starting at 0 has started to make sense from an end-user perspective - it means that you can still reference any player, even the 10th player, with a single digit.

base 10 ?

Let's see... a 16 player map would be 0 - F

Time to use the alphabet instead of digits, then we can have 26 player maps.

and while your at it expand the max map size to 1024 by 1024.... i will have a candidate for that in short order.

[NoQ]

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[Berg]

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