Re: [Almonaster-list] Re: Restricting idlers

[Delbert H. <dh...@cs...>]

On Sat, Jun 12, 2004 at 11:47:52AM -0700, Back Stabber wrote:
> You can filter empires by IP (known idlers) or various
> score values to eliminate likely idlers.  But there
> are no guarantees, even with email validation.
>=20
> I was in a recent TCBOO where I think 5 emps went idle
> in the 70-150 update range.  Which is worse, having an
> idle emp at the beginning or having your ally go idle
> after 100 updates?

Somewhat tangential:
My opinion on TCBOO is that it is a bad game design.
It is just too taxing on players to complete a game.
I played in one of the original ones and even with
some scripts to automate things it was a huge time
sink to manage an empire of 500+ worlds.

Del