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If you've stumbled on this page, feel free to add your own opinions and discussion. If for some reason I don't want people interjecting, I reserve the right to remove your comments and will let you know that I'd prefer not to have comments, but, for the most part, go ahead and assume that anything here is fair game for commenting on. I'm just toying around with ideas and whatnot here anyway, so having an extra brain working on the problem is always a good thing.
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WIP Suggestions
Alt Proximity Warning
| Timestamp: —Aichon— 16:35, 18 November 2009 (UTC) |
| Type: Interface |
| Scope: Players with alts |
| Description: Many Urban Dead players have multiple characters (alts) that they play. The rules regarding alts are relatively simple, but are oftentimes overlooked by new players. Even veteran players may occasionally run afoul of the rule if they don't keep track of the locations of all of their characters, and find that a few of them wander into one another's vicinity. This suggestion is aimed at helping players identify and move away from these sorts of accidental occurrences, rather than dealing with intentional zerging.
This suggestion proposes a proximity warning whenever characters controlled by the same individual (as identified by e-mail address) are getting too close to each other. Similar to the IP warning, if a character moves within 10 blocks of another character controlled by that player, they would receive a simple warning along the lines of, "This character is nearing the vicinity of CHARACTER_NAME, another character in your control (you are currently X blocks away). Please be aware of the rules regarding alt characters and note that countermeasures may be automatically applied if your characters are thought to be working in conjunction with one another." As for why e-mail addresses are used, rather than IP addresses, cookies, or some other means, the reason is simple: if those other means were used, zergers could test, map, and learn the limits of detection currently used by Urban Dead, enabling them to more easily circumvent the countermeasures in the future. By using e-mail addresses instead, the accounts that are linked are obvious and the warning becomes a tool for honest players to identify times that they might be absentminded. Again, this suggestion is not aimed at curbing intentional zerging, but, rather, just honest accidents made by regular players. Please note that this suggestion is not meant to have any impact on existing detection methods or countermeasures, which will still be kept in place as they are now. |
Discussion (Alt Proximity Warning)
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