I just discovered Cyberboard because of my interest in the 18xx trains
games.  There are a few things I'm failing to do with my game and
maybe it's because I don't know how and maybe it's because the
features don't exist.  Here goes:

1) Each player has a board defined in the gbx file and named Player 1
through Player 6.  Is there a way to rename those boards or attach a
player name to them as part of a specific game?  If not, this would be
a nice feature for a 6-player game, so you know who owns what.  This
gets into a broader issue of ownership, since at it appears now, the
program doesn't know what player is doing anything.  It would be nice
functionality to be able to designate what player you are for the
duration of a game, then ideally label each of your messages in the
message history with your name and/or player number.

2) Our game has a tray for the bank.  The bank has a large number of
bills in an array of types.  When I return a $100 bill and a $5 bill,
I'd rather not have to find the right section of the giant list of
pieces to put each bill into, and I'd rather not have a bank that's
all out of order.  Is it possible to sort a tray so that pieces are
grouped together?  Ideally each piece could have a name associated
with it, designated when creating the gbx file, so the sort function
could just alphabetize the tray contents.

3) For the 18xx games, the game is over when the bank goes bankrupt. 
So it's important to know that the bank has the right amount of money
to begin with and right now there's no way to be sure.  It might be
nice if trays could give you a count of how many of each type of piece
they contain.  Obviously totalling the value of all money is
needlessly specific functionality, but I can think of other cases
where you might want to verify the contents of a tray by looking at a
quick list of all its tokens broken down by type and quantity.

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