MP Game - Full HowtheGodsKill

Reverend Zombie · #1 June 11th, 2004, 03:18 PM

Well, only Cohen has taken his turn, so if you hurry and set yourself to anonymous, so I can stop the game, then kick you, you can reload your pretender without too much hassle.

Reverend Zombie · #2 June 11th, 2004, 03:21 PM

Actually, I am not sure that the procedure I mentioned will work on a game-in-progress, but we can try.

Will it kill you to play with this Pretender, if you are stuck with it?

Reverend Zombie · #3 June 11th, 2004, 04:04 PM

Pickles,

More folks have been taking their turns, so it is going to become an increasing hassle to restart in order for you upload a new Pretender.

I'd rather not do anything to kill the momentum of a game that is getting started...so I ask again:

can you live with your current Pretender?

[ June 11, 2004, 15:05: Message edited by: Reverend Zombie ]

Pickles · #4 June 11th, 2004, 05:32 PM

Sorry I did not reply sooner - I realised it was not really worth the hassle and decided to live with it (& sulk). I dunno if it will work - just practicing now. (It is my first game so I expect to get eliminated pretty fast anyway!)

Pickles

Reverend Zombie · #5 June 11th, 2004, 06:04 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Pickles:
(It is my first game so I expect to get eliminated pretty fast anyway!)

That's the spirit!

Zapmeister · #6 June 12th, 2004, 01:45 AM

The thing I don't understand about gazumping is passwords. If the original player can get in and see that he has the wrong pretender, that means both the player and the gazumper set the same password, presumably null.

So at the frequency that this seems to happen, it would appear that people are commonly setting null passwords, despite advice from every direction not to do that.

Is it possible that people are not in fact being gazumped, but that some bug in Dom is corrupting isolated pretender data?

Norfleet · #7 June 12th, 2004, 08:29 AM

What *I* want to know is why the gazumper never attempts to return to his game.

Let us assume for moment that somebody who gazumps a position is a player who wishes to play the game. Why then, do we never hear from the gazumping player, "Who is playing my turns?"

This is very perplexing, and as a result, I strongly suspect that the people performing the gazumping are, in fact, doing this maliciously. The newly added warning will thus do nothing. Therefore, I once again advocate my solution of, first, replacing the unreliable and insecure Dom2 upload screen with a dedicated web-based interface, that simultaneously allows for accountability of uploads, and prevents any such gazumping from occurring. I'd also recommend figuring out how to set a trap for said malicious gazumpers, so that when they attempt to do this, they can be immediately Banned on sight.