Guest users should be removed,

General MWC related discussion stuff.

get rid of these guest plague accounts?

 
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drunken_deer
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Guest users should be removed,

Post by drunken_deer »

Registration is free, not only this but more people will be able to use these forums to post and players dummying wont be an issue.

Fuck these guest accounts off please!

zagon
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Re: Guest users should be removed,

Post by zagon »

Guests are good to introduce people to the game, or if they are waiting for an account to be activated.

However....

When told by drunken and I that accounts are Free, two people told us they didnt have an email to spare to register. They later went on to say that they have "real" accounts they are using for the tourney, and it was too much work to enter their passwords in the box. (though you can check save password) and not worry about typing anything. Why would they not login on their own accounts is beyond me. Maybe they care about stupid stats that much? Maybe they just like to hateplay people? Maybe they dont want to use their names so you dont get a feel for how they play?

punkUser
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Re: Guest users should be removed,

Post by punkUser »

So if you don't want to play with guests, just move to a tourney room. There's an update coming soon to the metaserver that will improve this slightly... it will allow guests to *see* the other rooms (and how many players there are, etc) but not join them. At that point, if the community wants to only play with registered folks, just change rooms. This should solve concerns about stuff like Guests logging on during a MWC day and thinking there's no one on the server, while in reality everyone is just in the other rooms.

Accumulated stats (i.e. ingame and in "View Users" on the site) will not count anything played in unranked rooms soon, so no worries there. There definitely shouldn't be any reason for people to prefer a guest account over a regular one other than changing their name. Conversely though, how are guests really a problem? It's not really possible to eliminate dummying as people can always get more real accounts if they care enough.

Thus I don't think it's useful to disable guests entirely... guests are an easy way for folks new to the server to log in, and even for people have issues with accounts to log on and get help. They also provide an opportunity to customize names and so forth which some people enjoy (and that's fine). There's already a way to not play with guests if you want and it'll get slightly better soon.

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