.... well, not that I'm complaining .... but doesn't that sorta defeat the purpose for having the pw's in the first place? .. why not just remove them, and give people the ability to start games with custom passwords.
Min
I don’t think it defeat the purpose for having the passwords. It just allows people to have access to them without the only choice but to log on to IRC to get the passwords. Since this is all the publicity the page will get, I don’t think it will attract that many new players. People can also be denied access to the page as they could/would be via IRC.
I only created this after you expressed a great deal of disrepute for the passwords. If there are many that feel this is a bad idea I can remove it, if they are so inclined to post their thoughts I’d appreciate it.
as I said lrl, why not just remove the passwords completely, and allow custom passworded games. instead of the other way around. that would make having this page unnessicary.
Min
max.........that html file prolly is prolly 2 kb's at the max
Well, I kinda agree with Min here. If the password is going to be readily available, you might as well make sheepbot and paniqbot default to no password and instead use an option to create a game with a password.
Passwords were originally implemented as a default on Minbot players ruining games setup in IRC, either intentionally or otherwise. This became such a problem that passwords were implemented to keep out those who could not play by the rules. Because we had the Bestweb server spawning strict or tournament games, the IRC community didn't really worry about new influx of people.
So now we jump to today, where we find ourselves in the same position. We currently have a server spawning unpassworded games, just like Bestweb. We currently have 2 IRC game servers instead of just Minbot. We still have new players trickling in, just as we did 1 or 1.5 years ago. A difference now is that there aren't as many open game type of games running. A small, but definately not ignorable difference.
So! Its basically the same as it was back when IRC bot passwords were implemented but the annoyance factor is lower. If the owners set servers to spawn without a password, and games kept getting interupted, we can always set up our own custom passworded game! I'm with Min, might as well default to no password if you're putting passwords up for anyone to see and see how it works out. After all, the owners can always change it back to the way it was.
wow sticks.. thanks for the essay. back to maddmaxx, wasting webspace.. if sticks didnt leave 4 and 5 paragraph essays all the time... maybe that could save some.
god..
well, the passwords are really only avaliable to ppl who check the site, so I don't see how it makes a difference, I've wanted to play in those passworded games for a while.
I think there should be a little disclaimer at the bottom saying read and follow these guidelines: http://www.winbolo.com/guides.html
If they don't, they are banned from the passwords.
information that shouldnt be disclosed was removed from post
your mod status seems to be in place now.
and what does that have to do with anything.
you posted information on exactly what to do to bypass a bann, which is wrong.
obviously ud and lrl aren't just "any" idiots (maybe uber idiots?) lol unless lrl is blocking all those sites to lol which would take a long time and you'd never get them all
just because youve abandoned winbolo doesnt mean you have to go and blow up and ruin it for everyone else. dont have a heart attack
the website for passwords was a convenience that lrl made for people. why must you try and find ways to abuse this?
