Feature request: reset password
 

Here's a feature request that would help out the MP community a lot and I think be pretty easy to implement: a command line way to use the master password to reset the password for a given nation. One of the banes of the several month long MP games is that one guy can go MIA and hose (or at least seriously disrupt) everyones game. As is, the choice is to either give the sub the master pass or set the nation AI. I'm assuming a command line interface would be pretty easy for the llamaserver to hook into so that poor llamabeast doesn't need to personally manage every time somebody needs to be set AI...I know I always feel guilty having to bug him given the number of games running there.

Re: Feature request: reset password
 

As an extension of this, it would also be nice if you could reset the password for yourself. So that you could change the password before giving it to a temporary sub, then change it back afterward.

Especially useful when someone subs more than once in the same game.

Same implementation, just allow it using either the master or the current password for the nation.

Re: Feature request: reset password
 

Oh man, seconded!

Who hasnt been bitten by this one? Anything that can help manage derelict players is a godsend.

Re: Feature request: reset password
 

for pbem you do not have this issue. Which is one reason that llamaserver is so popular I think.

Re: Feature request: reset password
 

Well, you don't have that issue *if* people don't password protect their pretender. I tend to sub a decent amount and can say anecdotally that even though I usually don't have trouble getting the password (thankfully) there usually is a password even on the PBEM games. I know I usually have a password on just out of habit, I'm sure I'm not alone.

Re: Feature request: reset password
 

That is regrettable, as it forces Llamabeast to manually bypass it, and there is absolutely no point to having it.
There will be penalties associated with nations that are pw protected in Kingmaker, as they were cautioned not to do it.

Not sure how much of a population penalty they will get, but it will be something.

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Wow, command line password-changing would be amazing. Even more amazing would be command-line setting-to-AI. That, at a stroke, would make a colossal difference and mean there'd be virtually nothing I'd have to intervene with.

Please JK, please! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/smile.gif

Re: Feature request: reset password
 

I'm not holding my breath for this one. But I can recover pretender passwords, so it isn't much of a problem to me.

Re: Feature request: reset password
 

How do you recover pretender passwords?

Re: Feature request: reset password
 

I use a magic word and the dialog tells the password to me. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

I'll recover passwords for others, if they send me turn files, too. Generally this is only of interest for game admins who need to find subs for players that didn't tell their passes.