During the last week there was a lot of "behind the scenes" stuff happening. So no new screenshots today.

Randomn number generator: I've exchanged the MersenneTwister algorithm used for creating die rolls on the server with some devilish little contraption Christer has come up with. He can explain it much better than I do, so go to the help section to read about how clients playing are helping to generate true randomness for the dicerolling (cool stuff!).

Admin protocol: One of the great things of having a client-/server-architecture for Fantasy Football is that it makes life for the admins much much easier. I am just putting the finishing touches on the admin protocol right now which allows to send admin commands to the server to close games, concede games, delete games, re-upload failed uploads, list active and paused (persisted) games, send messages to all clients (e.g. "server going down in 5 minutes") and finally shutting down the server. All of that without involving the clients. The game server listens for these commands on a port that will be behind a firewall, so it can be accessed only within the playffb.net network itself.

and finally:

Testing will most likely start again at the end of march or beginning of april. Result uploading is ready to be tested but we'll start without it at first to catch the worst bugs before committing them to the database. Once the really bad stuff is eliminated, result uploading is activated and teams will be able to progress.