Fix Request

[Zapmeister]

There's a lot of grief around at the moment arising from people gazumping other people's positions in network games by uploading pretenders into non-open slots.

This could be easily remedied by demanding the password of the existing pretender before allowing an update to that pretender.

Any support for this ?

[AhhhFresh]

Originally posted by Zapmeister:
There's a lot of grief around at the moment arising from people gazumping other people's positions in network games by uploading pretenders into non-open slots.

This could be easily remedied by demanding the password of the existing pretender before allowing an update to that pretender.

Any support for this ? <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">I support it... and it seems like that's the way it should work if you password protect your pretender.

I have yet to have someone steal my spot in an MP game, but it seems like an easy mistake to make on your first MP game... you might assume that the dark black ones are all nations that are open for you to chose, not simply the nations you've previously created a pretender for...

Simply having a password check to replace the pretender would solve the accidental issue... and doesn't seem like a big hassle to the player, since it's optional... though how much of a hassle it would be to the devs is another issue entirely. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

[Zapmeister]

Still on the subject of handling anti-social behaviour, how about automatically shifting a nation to AI control after some number (say, 2) of consecutive stale turns ?

[Norfleet]

Originally posted by Zapmeister:
Still on the subject of handling anti-social behaviour, how about automatically shifting a nation to AI control after some number (say, 2) of consecutive stale turns ? <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">That'd be an annoyance in test games where you regularly advance a ton of turns at once and just let them stale.

[Norfleet]

dp

[ April 13, 2004, 09:51: Message edited by: Norfleet ]

[Zapmeister]

That'd be an annoyance in test games where you regularly advance a ton of turns at once and just let them stale.<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Well, just make it a game option, like renaming commanders.

[Yossar]

Originally posted by Zapmeister:
Still on the subject of handling anti-social behaviour, how about automatically shifting a nation to AI control after some number (say, 2) of consecutive stale turns ? <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Nah, that would cause more unforseen problems than it's worth since switching to AI is permanent (unless that were changed too). It isn't that hard to keep track of players and switch them to AI if their being problematic.

[Zapmeister]

It isn't that hard to keep track of players and switch them to AI if their being problematic.<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">In fact, it's very hard (impossible, actually) if a password has been set and there's no master password. This situation is very common on the mosehansen server, and just one instance of it effectively disables quickhosting.

[Gandalf Parker]

Originally posted by Zapmeister:
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">It isn't that hard to keep track of players and switch them to AI if their being problematic.<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">In fact, it's very hard (impossible, actually) if a password has been set and there's no master password. This situation is very common on the mosehansen server, and just one instance of it effectively disables quickhosting. </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">The big headache with the "2 stales equal AI" is that there is no changing it back.

There is a way to stale a player and still not have a quickturn problem. If mosehansen wasnt to incorporate it into his web-hosting I can send him the answer.

[Zapmeister]

That would be excellent! Mose isn't very active here - your best chance of making him aware of this is to post in his thread: http://www.shrapnelgames.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=74;t=001453