Online play and results

Stemak · Post by **Stemak** » Sun Jul 17, 2011 10:51 pm

Love the ease of the online ........ a masterpiece in simplicity for an online beginner like me. The last time I played online in the PG series you had to mess about with files and so on - so in my ignorance I expected this again. It's so quick and simple that you can basically play hot-seat if you arrange to stay online ..... or have a Blackberry that bleeps when your turn e-mail arrives ....... brilliant!

One thing I'm missing is the results or records for online play - is there a table or record of this? Apologies if I have missed this in the PDF as I'm awaiting the physical shipment to read the manual properly.

Rudankort · Post by **Rudankort** » Mon Jul 18, 2011 6:50 am

We wanted to have this, but it will require a few changes in Slitherine PBEM++ server, so it did not make into 1.0.

jomni · Post by **jomni** » Mon Jul 18, 2011 7:05 am

Stats tracking would be good addition but it is a double edged sword.
There may be stats whores who will be cheating, whining, quitting midway, etc.

El_Condoro · Post by **El_Condoro** » Mon Jul 18, 2011 7:11 am

The good thing about PBEM++ is the way that those kinds of abuses are tracked. I'm not sure what the consequences would be, but it would affect a player's reputation at least.

Does the server track IP addresses or just user names? Not sure if it's relevant but it might be an added disincentive for cheating etc

BIERMASCHINE · Post by **BIERMASCHINE** » Mon Jul 18, 2011 8:50 am

Sry for my english, I´ll try my best.

I´m not that happy with the only(?) way to play PCorps online. My hope was, there will be some kind of semi-simultan-modus in it too. Maybe like in Frozen Synapse (completely different genre): Both players sitting in front of the game, making their moves, hitting the hourglass and the game calculates the results, displayed immediately. Still turn-based but without the laborious way of playing, sending, loading, playing, sending, loading and so on. Is there an option I did not noticed?

Nauwiesbande · Post by **Nauwiesbande** » Mon Jul 18, 2011 9:13 am

I wouldn't want to sit and watch while the opponent makes his turns. Takes forever. And no, I wouldn't want a time limit either.
I like it the way it is.

Only things I miss are huge statistics: when played, against, possibility to review each match over and over...

Obsolete · Post by **Obsolete** » Mon Jul 18, 2011 1:24 pm

There may be stats whores who will be cheating, whining, quitting midway, etc.

Well, if a person abandons a game, eventually the other player is allowed to CLAIM a win on it. I just can't remember the waiting period, 2 weeks or something around there.

I suppose a person could log on, make a second account and just feed wins off that account. But Slitherine could probably check the reg keys to make sure this isn't happening, (if they don't already). I never tried it.

Razz1 · Post by **Razz1** » Tue Jul 19, 2011 2:57 am

It's 30 days to claim a game.