make Player class abstract. Create 2 sub-classes AIPlayer and HumanPlayer. They are just bare-bones at this point.

Now, we should be able to move things one by one to the Human/AI subclasses from GameAction.java.

.gitattributes

@@ -5290,6 +5290,7 @@ src/arcane/util/Util.java svneol=native#text/plain
 src/com/cloudgarden/layout/AnchorConstraint.java -text svneol=native#text/plain
 src/com/cloudgarden/layout/AnchorLayout.java -text svneol=native#text/plain
 src/com/esotericsoftware/minlog/Log.java svneol=native#text/plain
+src/forge/AIPlayer.java -text svneol=native#text/plain
 src/forge/Ability.java svneol=native#text/plain
 src/forge/AbilityFactory.java -text svneol=native#text/plain
 src/forge/AbilityFactory_AlterLife.java -text svneol=native#text/plain
@@ -5418,6 +5419,7 @@ src/forge/Gui_Treasury.java -text svneol=native#text/plain
 src/forge/Gui_Welcome.java svneol=native#text/plain
 src/forge/Gui_WinLose.java svneol=native#text/plain
 src/forge/HandSizeOp.java -text svneol=native#text/plain
+src/forge/HumanPlayer.java -text svneol=native#text/plain
 src/forge/IO.java svneol=native#text/plain
 src/forge/ImageCache.java svneol=native#text/plain
 src/forge/ImagePreviewPanel.java -text svneol=native#text/plain

src/forge/AIPlayer.java

@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+
+package forge;
+
+
+public class AIPlayer extends Player{
+	
+	public AIPlayer(String myName) {
+		this(myName, 20, 0);
+	}
+	
+	public AIPlayer(String myName, int myLife, int myPoisonCounters) {
+		super(myName, myLife, myPoisonCounters);
+	}
+	
+	public Player getOpponent() {
+		return AllZone.HumanPlayer;
+	}
+	
+	////////////////
+	///
+	/// Methods to ease transition to Abstract Player class
+	///
+	///////////////
+	
+	public boolean isHuman() { return false; }
+	public boolean isComputer() { return true; }
+	public boolean isPlayer(Player p1) {
+		return p1.getName().equals(this.name);
+	}
+	
+	///////////////
+	///
+	/// End transition methods
+	///
+	///////////////
+	
+}//end AIPlayer class

src/forge/AllZone.java

@@ -13,8 +13,8 @@ public class AllZone implements NewConstants {
     //only for testing, should read decks from local directory
 //  public static final IO IO = new IO("all-decks");
 	
-	public static final Player					HumanPlayer				= new Player("Human");
+	public static final Player					HumanPlayer				= new HumanPlayer("Human");
-    public static final Player					ComputerPlayer			= new Player("Computer");
+    public static final Player					ComputerPlayer			= new AIPlayer("Computer");
     
     public static QuestData                      QuestData          = null;
     public static Quest_Assignment 			     QuestAssignment    = null;

src/forge/HumanPlayer.java

@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+
+package forge;
+
+
+public class HumanPlayer extends Player{
+	
+	public HumanPlayer(String myName) {
+		this(myName, 20, 0);
+	}
+	
+	public HumanPlayer(String myName, int myLife, int myPoisonCounters) {
+		super(myName, myLife, myPoisonCounters);
+	}
+	
+	////////////////
+	///
+	/// Methods to ease transition to Abstract Player class
+	///
+	///////////////
+	
+	public boolean isHuman() { return true; }
+	public boolean isComputer() { return false; }
+	public boolean isPlayer(Player p1) {
+		return p1.getName().equals(this.name);
+	}
+	
+	///////////////
+	///
+	/// End transition methods
+	///
+	///////////////
+	
+	public Player getOpponent() {
+		return AllZone.ComputerPlayer;
+	}
+	
+}//end HumanPlayer class

src/forge/Player.java

@@ -2,11 +2,11 @@
 package forge;
 
 
-public class Player extends MyObservable{
+public abstract class Player extends MyObservable{
-	private String name;
+	protected String name;
-	private int poisonCounters;
+	protected int poisonCounters;
-	private int life;
+	protected int life;
-	private int assignedDamage;
+	protected int assignedDamage;
 	
 	public Player(String myName) {
 		this(myName, 20, 0);
@@ -23,24 +23,11 @@ public class Player extends MyObservable{
 		return name;
 	}
 	
-	public boolean isHuman() {
+	public abstract boolean isHuman();
-		return name.equals("Human");
+	public abstract boolean isComputer();
-	}
+	public abstract boolean isPlayer(Player p1);
 	
-	public boolean isComputer() {
+	public abstract Player getOpponent();
-		return name.equals("Computer");
-	}
-	
-	public boolean isPlayer(Player p1) {
-		return p1.getName().equals(this.name);
-	}
-	
-	public Player getOpponent() {
-		if(isPlayer(AllZone.HumanPlayer)) {
-			return AllZone.ComputerPlayer;
-		}
-		else return AllZone.HumanPlayer;
-	}
 	
 	//////////////////////////
 	//
@@ -204,6 +191,8 @@ public class Player extends MyObservable{
 		return new CardList();
 	}
 	
+	//public abstract void discard(int n, SpellAbility sa);
+	
 	public String toString() {
 		return name;
 	}