[Almonaster-list] Restricting joining access to longterms
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From: Jerome Z. <alm...@ag...> - 2004-06-09 21:29:23
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It's rather easy to join a longterm, then check every once in a while whether it has started. Unfortunately you might miss its start by a few updates then, especially if it has taken months to fill up. Therefore I suggest the following to reduce the amount of idling in longterms. When you join a longterm, and it doesn't start at once (because more players are needed), the server checks whether you have given a private (else public) email address in the profile. If that isn't the case, it says "You need a valid email address (in your profile) to join this longterm, so that I can warn you when this game starts". If an email address was given, then a confirmation request is sent to you (this is what happens when you subscribe to this mailing-list). If you reply to this confirmation request, then you're in. This step is necessary to ensure that the email address you gave isn't obsolete. Now, when a longterm starts, everyone but the last joiner gets an email like "Game Artemis 12 on Prometheus has started. Please go to http://almonaster.sourceforge.net/ and log in as Wandering Loan to update it". |