Re: Web-enabled Game Creation

On Thu, 17 Sep 2009 23:31:06 -0700 (PDT)
Daniel Svanström <[email protected]> wrote:

> Can I suggest an alternate approach with something like open games
> with no activity for ... days will be deleted? It could even send the
> create details to the game master for easy recreation if it was
> deleted in error.

To be clear, Sam did not turn off game creation. He only turned off
game creation by web. A gradual clean up of open games is a reasonable
next step, but my understanding is that the majority of game masters who
were creating and filling games before web creation was enabled can
continue to do so as can anyone who wants to use the "create" email
command.

Moderators of forming games should make a decision to either clean up or
fill up their games. Clean up is just sending a broadcast to the
players, if any, then terminating the game. To fill games, I recommend
posting the openings on the games list* and on the rec.games.diplomacy
newsgroup.

Hard limits on game formation are probably not a good idea as there
would be a tendency for slow-forming games to build up in the queue.
That would create denial of service conditions and some unreasonable 
maintenance requirements for Sam and Manus.

Chris

* http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dpjgames


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