New & raw web based Dominion II game server

[Esben Mose Hansen]

Had the devil of a time reproducing the login bug. The problem is that the you must use the https protocol insted of http. But because all the links are relative, you won't discover this unless you use an external link.

I'll code something up to fix this once and for all. In the meantime, use
secure dominions II server

That should work.

[edit] Fixed. Any attempt to use the http://..../dom2.pl script will now result in a redirection to https://..../dom2.pl.

Thanks to all for pointing out this flaw!

[ April 18, 2004, 20:21: Message edited by: Esben Mose Hansen ]

[Esben Mose Hansen]

A serious bug has been nailed: It was possible to log in using ANY log in name, as long as it hadn't been used before(!) This meant that some of you logged in sometimes as wazooking and other times as Wazooking. Of course, wazooking did not have access to Wazooking's games, and they had two separate welcome screens.

I've just finished cleaning up, removing all players where a duplicate existed modulo case. The correct one was determined based on which one had additional info filled in (real name, email address, experience). What a bummer

[Graeme Dice]

Is there a problem with the Login currently? I'm unable to login at the moment.

[Norfleet]

You should add an command to decide "Oh, wait, that's not me", in case you decide to give your slot to somebody else, or just accidentally pick the wrong one.

[Esben Mose Hansen]

Originally posted by Graeme Dice:
Is there a problem with the Login currently? I'm unable to login at the moment.

Username and error message, please?

[Esben Mose Hansen]

Originally posted by Norfleet:
You should add an command to decide "Oh, wait, that's not me", in case you decide to give your slot to somebody else, or just accidentally pick the wrong one.

I'll add it to my todo. Perhaps I should setup a soruceforge account, to get a bug tracking tool? I'm loosing track of all these (good!) ideas :-/

[JaydedOne]

Another suggestion - any way we can have the site show who stale-turned after each host? I've got a feeling we've got two or three stale players on TentoTango right now and I fear what that'll mean for the long-term viability of the game.

Also, a possible bug - I'm controlling two armies in Twelve by High Magic on my PC - one for me (Marignon) and one for my girlfriend (Pangaea). For simplicity's sake, I assigned them both my ID on the site. I took my turn as Marignon and the site recognized that Marignon had gone but it also stated that Pangaea had when I know for a fact that my girlfriend hadn't (at the time) taken her turn or even opened it. Which side does the problem lie on, I wonder?

[Graeme Dice]

Originally posted by Esben Mose Hansen:
Username and error message, please?

The username is Gdice.
The error message is:
"Login failed. Please retry or contact site administrator to get password reset."

[Esben Mose Hansen]

1. I've uploaded a new Version. It's mostly adminstrative changes, but I did include the option to "deconfess" to playing a nation. Note that the administrative bit was introduction of player group accesses, so it's quite possible it will go horrible wrong.

2. I can't find any user name gdice on the system Could you please just re-register that login?

3. Stale-player detection is definitely on my todo list. It just needs a bit of infrastructure, of which the Confess bit represent the first bit.

4. How would you all feel if players could see one anothers details, like jabber id, email address, experience and so on? Only logged in players could do this, of course.

5. It would definitely be a bug if moving for one nation remove all nations in a game from the welcome points-of-interest table. If anyone sees this again, could you double-check by "view/manage" the game and checking the dreaded yes/no table for game nations? Check for inconsistencies with the point-of-interest table. Thanks.

P.S: About TentoTangedeux, this is the stats.txt file from Last turn:

Abysia played this turn
Pythium didn't play this turn
Man played this turn
Ulm played this turn
C'tis didn't play this turn
Arcoscephale played this turn
Ermor didn't play this turn
Pangaea played this turn
R'lyeh played this turn
T'ien Ch'i played this turn

So you have at worst three stale players. You could send them an ingame message and ask them to identify themselves or be killed.

[ April 20, 2004, 20:45: Message edited by: Esben Mose Hansen ]

[sergex]

Ooo, I just thought of a useful feature! Can you add a field so we can put links of the threads in this forum for the games we start? I'm not sure if you can put in HTML comments in the comments field.

Great job, man!

[ April 21, 2004, 02:35: Message edited by: sergex ]