[Kde-games-devel] Updates on KShisenso

[Mauricio Piacentini]

Well, I think the tile author may try to make things easier for kids and 
beginners, and we know some do not understand the rules of season and 
flower matching. Maybe the tiles could be made a bit different, but I am 
not sure about changing colors. Will have to talk to Raquel to see what 
she wants to do in this case.
Jeremy, I agree with your general assessment of the problem. Chinese 
rules should really be the default imo. But there is another 
possibility: you could also not use seasons/flowers tiles in the 
generated game unless this option is checked. This is not meant to solve 
only this problem with this particular tileset, but could be considered 
a way to keep compatibility with the old behavior and still respect the 
correct mahjongg deck matching rules. So instead of "use chinese rules" 
it could also be called maybe "use extended sets" or something like 
this. KMahjongg could do the same, using the same preference name. Food 
for thought.

Regards,
Mauricio Piacentini

Jeremy Wick wrote:
> Well, actually i made an option for this, before seasons and lowers
> had to match the exact same tiles. But the option i added makes
> matching any season with any season possible (and same for flowers).
> The reason for this is that in a real set , you only have 4 flowers
> and 4 seasons, so not two are exactly the same.
> 
> So be sure to activate the option for this. I do believe it should be
> the default, but i did not want to change the (default) gameplay not
> to confuse old users.
> 
> Nevertheless, the alternate tilesets should not assume anything on the
> games matching rules and provide different tiles for ... tiles that
> are different.