I can see where the capcha will put a stop to duping, and allow you to pin-point who the baby seal killers are, but what additional latency will it add to the connection? Who's going to maintain the "gateway" server? Will this eventually be a pay to use service? Added value should involve fees to use.

Ok, so now let's pass the fee's onto the 3 or 4 sysops that will use it. John get a bill ready for the cost to implement this so called feature,capcha monthly fees & make it an add-on to TWGS. Plus can you add the stats of the games running this feature to the main page like the other stats. Probably best to just hard code it since it will never change.

Servers running Capcha Add-on: 1 / Players in Game: 0

Early on I told JP to charge fees like so many other games today. For those with more money than time, allow players to exchange turns for in-game credits for a R/L fee. Happens all the time, people spend R/L $'s on "virtual" stuff.

Start charging fees and you will see Trade Wars disappear instantly. If the intent is to run off all the current database of players then implement a monthly fee.

Again this is fine for all future versions, but you know why I don't play WOW, or any other of those types games anymore.... $65 for the software and $15 a month, and then you have to pay $ for upgrades.... NO THANKS. I would rather pay $200 for the game and no fees or nothing for software and pay a monthly fee but I find paying both ridiculous.

heavy script players in this game would rather run world trading scripts in unlimited turn games.

Huge difference between Time = Money and Turns = Money.

Capcha will not stop duping. Sorry but with the availability to gain multiple IP's you won't stop duping. Most people to avoid duping will just call someone they know to join a game and turn on the bot and walk away.... in that case bot = dupiing? IMO yep. But in theory you have done nothing wrong, different person, different ip. But this also would be the same thing as what if you start a game and a person gets called away for a couple weeks, duping? This could go forever.

BTW, TW was one of the very first pay-to-play games. In the '90's we all paid $5 per month, per server!

Uhhhh "WE" all didn't.

You didn't play the "cool" servers then, or don't remember. LOL

We ran RiverCity in the late 80s and early 90s - we didn't charge for our BBS or games (including a registered TW) and had a great player base. The only systems in our area that charged were the ones that maintained a large download area so they could afford the LD bill to get the files.

Was your's a local dial-up only, or were you on the telnet network?

My local, since I was already paying for access did not charge a fee for local gamers, but when I telnetted out to other servers there were $5 monthly fees. We were happy to help pay for our entertainment. Back then the HVS MBBS license was about $350, hardward needed maintained, etc.

My wife said, "You won't ever need to buy another computer, will you?!?!"