Re: [Almonaster-list] Restricting joining access to longterms

[Back S. <bac...@ya...>]

While an option to get notified by email when the game
finally starts would be nice, I would recommend
against making it mandatory.  Consider:
1) Some people are reluctant to provide email
addresses and will either play elsewhere or provide
false addresses (Like BackStabber does when
registering for free content)
2) An authorization-code email validation system will
make it MUCH harder for people to join games
3) Starting a new secret empire would require also
creating a new email for it
4) A few jokers might register numerous empires to
your email address and join games so that you will get
the notifies and go looking for games you thought you
joined but didnt really. 

Seriously, do we really want to discourage people from
playing games at Falcon and other Almo servers?  Some
people are already put off by the complexity of the
large number of game options.  And the ability to
create custom games as an attraction is somewhat
offset by the PHP servers offering a limitted version
of that feature.  I cant see email validation
attracting anyone, and I can see it driving people to
other servers.  Sure it is easy enough to code, but do
people really want to have to hit join, go to their
email and wait maybe an hour depending on sever-mail
delivery parameters,  then go back to the game and
enter a code?  Especially when they can just join and
enter 1st turn moves everyplace else in the SC world? 
There are other ways to limit idlers.

I think the optional Email notification feature would
be nice to have, for those who would like it (myself
included for optional notify).  That might encourage
more people to join those games that are slow to fill.

BackStabber


--- Jerome Zago <alm...@ag...>
wrote:
> On Thursday 10 June 2004 05:23, Max Attar Feingold
> wrote:
> > Now, the bit that I don't think is realistic is
> the part that requires an
> > email confirmation to authorize game entry.  It
> would require hooking up
> > an email system to the game's core logic, and that
> would be a lot of work
> > for the gain.
> 
> Yeah, I think there is an easier way. Send an email
> with a random number when 
> an empire wants to join (maybe calculated by hashing
> the empire name). The 
> empire has to provide this number (in the web
> interface) to actually join the 
> game.
> 
> 
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