Information

A console theme defines the "information" that is displayed on the console throughout your tournament. Information, for lack of a better name, includes:

Refer to the individual help pages for more detail on each type of information.

Other than announcements and rules, information is purely for entertainment purposes and can be used as a way to pass the time while people await play to start, either before the tournament or during breaks.

Dr. Neau came up with this idea when he was sitting in a movie theater waiting for the movie to start. The theater had a slideshow looping with useless information, movie stills, movie quotes, quiz questions, etc.

Sets of information are grouped into "collections". For instance, you might create an announcement collection called "Championship Announcements" and another announcement collection called "Tournament #3 announcements".

When it comes to information, a console theme defines:

The above is defined on the active theme information/overlay panel.

The process for displaying information

The application references the current betting schedule segment and the console theme to determine whether or not information should be displayed on the console during that segment.

If information should be displayed, then the application selects a random piece of information based on the theme's selected information collections and the weight given to each collection.

The application extracts the content of the information and gives it to the console, telling it how long to display the message. If clients are connected, that same message is sent to the clients (clients and servers should be displaying the same information at the same time).

The application waits until it is time for a new message and the process starts over.

Tips

If there is a collection that contains information that you want displayed frequently, give that collection a higher weight.

The number of elements in a collection does not impact the weight. Weight influences how often that collection will be chosen.

You will not be able to delete a information collection if it is referenced by a console theme.

If you remove an announcement collection from the filesystem, the application will catch the reference next time it starts and fix your console theme.

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