alban987

[quote who="vindKtiv" reply="6" id="2224534"] As the DotA community found out, in order to fully enjoy this style of game, you must keep certain people from your games. In style of DotA, Demigod also needs a Banlist. One intergrated into the game. So as I sit and wait minutes upon minutes for a game to start, we're down to waiting for the last player to join. A player, disliked by the host, joins the game and the host kicks him... player rejoins... host kicks

Would something similar to fallout3 / fable 2's DLC system work for you guys? Maybe a first round of free updates to include DG's and maps and then perhaps later on down the road a DLC pack with say 4 new DG's and 4 new maps or something along those lines?

Is this multiple network connection problem, as far as you know, only occuring on machines with more than 1 physical network card or can it also be created from scenarios where the machine has hamachi connected or perhaps VMware virtual networks set up?

[quote who="si1foo" reply="21" id="2206956"]i dont play dota and i doubt i will but from what i have heard the elitest seems to ruin it[/quote] It's not being an elitist. it's not wanting to play with kids who whine and cry and quit whenever they die or get punched in the face.

[quote who="Xinoxlx" reply="11" id="2206184"]Alban you have to understand although this game was inspired by DoTA, THIS IS NOT DOTA. The community is different, banlist may never be needed. The problem still exists that does with it's use in DoTA, it's too easily exploited by petty people. As to other people it doesn't speak very well of you if you can ONLY use insults.[/quote] It's not 'different'. It's still a collection of nerds on the internet.

[quote who="Protocept00" reply="7" id="2205507"]I love the OP's name. How is it pronounced...? "All-ban"? Hmm... coincidence? And this is a terrible, terrible idea. You sir, are an idiot. Keep your retarded list to yourself, don't go around trying to make some global banlist, it is nothing but absolute fail. And it appears, that there is no transparancy involved with the lists either. You are already removing yourself from the list, what is up with that? So are you above the banlis

Really, so now any grouping of like minded people is being 'elitest' ? So groups like the NRA or ACLU or Boy Scouts are 'elitest' because a group of people who believe in a certain set of principles hang out together? Fascinating.

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I'm still not getting how this is 'elitist'. If there are a set of rules for behavior that a group of people agree are the rules they wish to play by, and don't want to deal with people who don't agree with them, why is that elitist? If someone breaks a rule in a community, that the community has agreed upon, they suffer the concequences of that. Why? Because you need rules in a civilized society. Let'

[quote who="Ouchy Dathurts" reply="19" id="2204548"]Before I continue discussing this issue please take the time to fill in this simple yes or no questionaire. I understand that no one will every use this site to kick anyone from a game? I understand that what people have a problem with is a banlist, a program identical to the one used in DotA? I understand that the banlist program has no way to kick a player once the game launches? <br

[quote who="stolivodka" reply="17" id="2204521"]How cute the way he deletes everything except his "test" ban and the ban on "Xira" he posted under someone else's name. Alban is a tiny little godking on a tiny little hill, indeed! Again, I am publicly declaring that my global ban on alban is legit and has been filed, yet it was deleted from the site. If alban is already this corrupt when he doesn't have anyone actually using the site, imagine how he'd be if hundreds of hosts used hi

[quote who="christophermcne" reply="3" id="2204011"] Quoting InfiniteVengeance, reply 9Centralized banlists have not and will never work. There is an extreme lack of authority and accountability. Anyone can ban anyone effortlessly. Additionally, there's not even any evidence - there's no replays to show what happened. Stats are bugged out so you can't even prove who was where. This is a failure. MASSIVE agree. I t

[quote who="christophermcne" reply="5" id="2204037"] Quoting alban987, reply 24 First of all, the site looks like crap. There was no message the first time I logged in What do you mean? When you log in the login prompt goes away and the menu items slightly change accordingly. As far as some of the stuff looking unfinished... well that's because it is.... Was there a welcome message in

[quote who="InfiniteVengeance" reply="1" id="2203972"] Sure I suppose you could make a new email account and proxy up a new IP if you really wanted to go through the toruble but it seems like a waste of time to me. You really are naive to the methods of griefers.[/quote] Probably but it boils down to effort vs reward.

[quote who="rigphoria" reply="23" id="2203919"]this really is a terrible idea. it's a ban site being run by a guy who thinks he's doing the community a favor and refuses to listen to the opposite side of the argument. what if a legit player gets banned and you're simply in a bad mood the day they try to appeal? they're unfairly banned and on top of that they have no way to fix it even though they went through the proper channels and did nothing wrong. what if someone gets unfairly

[quote who="kstampy" reply="22" id="2203843"]Dude, so many people, including Stardock staff have told you that this site is wrong. Why must you commence? I'll tell you right now, I ever see you in my games and I'm going to kick you. Just for making this website. Look at post #92, cmon dude, get rid of this crap.[/quote] Sure, and stardock also released the

[quote who="Rhah" reply="16" id="2203702"]I don't like it. Just my two cents, but we should be helping people accumilate into the community not segregate them.[/quote] I understand that concern. I'm working on making "personal" banlists. You know it's interesting that there is a legitimate ban on there already. I played with Xira 2 days ago I believe when he rage quit.

[quote who="Spooky" reply="12" id="2203578"]Indeed. alban987, on what "majority" do you base your assumption, that the community wants something like this?[/quote] nearly every game I've played where someone drops or rage quits or is running the game on a pentium 2, they say, "boy I wish I knew they were going to do that before the game started" Maybe I don't understand why some of the people here are getting so worked up and upset over this.

[quote who="InfiniteVengeance" reply="8" id="2203503"] Based on what I was reading and experiencing first hand I thought this might be a useful tool for the community. Well as a majority of the community has now told you - you thought wrong.[/quote] A vocal minority does not make a majority.

It's fairly complicated. You have to watch the data coming in from the game and interpret what it means... it's not something very simple to do.

Holy christ... some of you guys need to chill out. Based on what I was reading and experiencing first hand I thought this might be a useful tool for the community. Some of you sound like rush limbaugh going on about how this is going to bring about the end of the world as we know it. It won't. It's not that big of a deal. Anyways... the constructive criticism I appreciate. The other nons

The game does actually save a replay of your last game. I just don't know how to view it just yet.

[quote who="Dracil" reply="16" id="2202414"] Quoting alban987, reply 15 Quoting Dracil, reply 12Unmasked password fields are very much html fail. Given this sort of mistake, it's also probable that your passwords are stored in plaintext in the database. i.e. better not use a password you use anywhere else, unless you want alban to look at them. Where is there an unmasked password field? and no, I store them with md5. Don't be a dope. Ther

[quote who="Dracil" reply="12" id="2202294"]Unmasked password fields are very much html fail. Given this sort of mistake, it's also probable that your passwords are stored in plaintext in the database. i.e. better not use a password you use anywhere else, unless you want alban to look at them.[/quote] Where is there an unmasked password field? and no, I store them with md5. Don't be a dope.

[quote who="kryo" reply="2" id="2202242"] I can just imagine if you can ban people for being noobish, yikes. "That Noob cost me the game, and would'nt listen to me, he's going on the ban list!" And how would a new player even know about the ban list? Or that he had to go there to "undo" the ban? He would only know he could not get into hardly any games. These sorts of lists are bad for exactly this (and other) reasons. *Any* situation where people can accuse others without proof