Say, Esben - if you look over at the Diplomacy thread, you'll see there's some people who would enjoy anonymous games - ie, Gandalf could play without regard for his reputation for honor, Norfleet might be MaryWithALittleLamb instead of the Great Evil, etc.
Any chance you could facilitate this? (I'm neutral about the idea, and certainly don't want to ask you to do new programming and work, but....) There's a problem with anonymous players dropping out of games all too often. But if the players claimed their games, just as they now do, only it wasn't
displayed for anon games, then everyone would start off anonymous / fresh, while players could still be set AI / kicked by the master password or you, the Facilitator of All Things Divine.
Alternatively, I suppose people could simply declare a game anonymous, and ask people _not_ to claim their nations. If they used the master password, they could still set players AI if they skipped too many turns, right?
People would have to make sure to upload the exact Pretender they
wanted to play, since there'd be no way to replace them - in an anonymous game, you can't very well kick all anonymous players.
But with the setup you now have, people would get their nation, a nation that was open when they uploaded a pretender.
Guess the only ... screwy thing would be that some people might upload and attempt to play more than one anonymous nation at a time. Imagine - Norfleet playing SG Ermor, Tombs C'tis, Raptors Caelum, undead Ulm, _and_ Carrion Woods all at the same time.
Or Cohen, playing 15 immobile pretenders all at once.
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