Re: Mechanisms to combat multiple-entry by a player

From: bcd@pvv.ntnu.no (Bent C Dalager)

Date: Sun, 08 Jun 2003 14:37:03 +0000

In article <bbv1hm$51l$1@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>,
 <wavey@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> wrote:
>A player can join a turn-based game multiple times, and co-ordinate his
>entries to gain an unfair advantage. Have any mechanisms (other than cost)
>been developed to help inhibit a player from doing this?

For a true solution (rather than just a best-effort at raising the
threshold), I find that there are only two options:

1) Allow it and encourage it. Everyone can do it, so it's not unfair
on anyone. This is often pretty straight forward to implement both
rules-wise and implementation-wise.

2) Make it pointless. Unfortunately, this boils down to having to give
startups nothing of any value whatsoever within the game, and this
proves difficult to do. If you _do_ give startups something
(_anything_), then this asset must also be made available to all
existing players, in any quantity, and at no cost, whenever they see
fit to acquire it (this is basically a means of reducing the value of
what a startup is given to nothing, so as to fulfill the previous
requirement). I could go on in length about this, but if it interests
you, I think I already did so in a thread in
comp.games.development.design a while back so you can google it there.

Cheers
	Bent D
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Mechanisms to combat multiple-entry by a player
wavey@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk
Sun, 08 Jun 2003 10:01:26 +0000

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Mechanisms to combat multiple-entry by a player
wavey@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk
Sun, 08 Jun 2003 10:01:26 +0000