Slynky's Demise

Gandalf Parker · #1 September 3rd, 2004, 11:14 AM

The Dominions crowd have had similar discussions. I worked it into the threads of creating a web-based PbEM games handler site. One way to go would be to create user logins and tie all of their games to them. I would be "Gandalf Parker" and my reputation would follow me from game to game, and would be important to me to maintain.

Another way to go would be to offer anonymous games. Such as actually creating a mail account for each player in each game. Not as big a deal as it sounds if you own the server. That way I could play a game as KissMyAsteroids. If efforts were made to provide enough communication channels then there would be no temptation to break the anonymity

The mechanics, and pros/cons, of different arrangments are usually tied into whether or not you build the site as a webmaster from the top down, or as a system admin from the bottom up.

Anyway, I digress. There are definate advantages to both the known logins, and the unknown ones. It would be nice to have both supported.

geoschmo · #2 September 3rd, 2004, 11:34 AM

Anonymous games is one of the fetures on the PBW to do list. As I understood it, it would have been a simple options to be checkemarked by the game owner which would simply not display the player names on the game info page. Probably wouldn't be that complicated even. Admiral intended to, but never got around to coding it in.

tesco samoa · #3 September 3rd, 2004, 12:33 PM

why not get a new hotmail account and create a new id on pbw... there you go... no one knows...

Ragnarok · #4 September 3rd, 2004, 01:00 PM

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tesco samoa said:
why not get a new hotmail account and create a new id on pbw... there you go... no one knows...

Because he would need a yahoo account...much better then hotmail...

Alneyan · #5 September 3rd, 2004, 01:10 PM

Hear the wisdom of Ragnarok! Incidentally, is the US Yahoo mail now on par with the European Yahoo mails? A few months ago, it was much better to have a Yahoo.co.uk mail rather than a Yahoo.com, which doesn't really make much sense.

I currently have 100 mo of storage space, a limit of a few mo for attachments, and the ability to download my mail from Thundermail. I am supposed to get some ads because of this feature, but not a single ad has been sent since I signed up, so. Is the current Yahoo.com offer equivalent to this?

Phoenix-D · #6 September 3rd, 2004, 01:50 PM

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Alneyan said:
Hear the wisdom of Ragnarok! Incidentally, is the US Yahoo mail now on par with the European Yahoo mails? A few months ago, it was much better to have a Yahoo.co.uk mail rather than a Yahoo.com, which doesn't really make much sense.

I currently have 100 mo of storage space, a limit of a few mo for attachments, and the ability to download my mail from Thundermail. I am supposed to get some ads because of this feature, but not a single ad has been sent since I signed up, so. Is the current Yahoo.com offer equivalent to this?

Except for the Last part, yes. And I have a program that takes care of that for me (YahooPOPs)

AMF · #7 September 3rd, 2004, 01:13 PM

well, no, because part of the risk on anonymity is someone screwing with the system. You don't want to have a system wherein people can play multiple positions, or otherwise get wacky. So you'd want a system that opaquely mapped actual email accounts to a player position, so other players only saw the player position but the site admin could have code that ensured that only one email account per player existed.

Of course, anybody could just go to yahoo and set up two accounts, but at least you're increasing the cost/annoyance to them to do so.

Although, thinking more, anybody caught doing this would likely be seriously blackballed, so I doubt anyone would. And, hey, we all love to play fairly - why decrease the challenge by cheating...

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tesco samoa said:
why not get a new hotmail account and create a new id on pbw... there you go... no one knows...