My father once told me: even if you have the best anti-thief system money can buy, if someone really want your stuff, they'll find a way to get it. Does that mean I should leave my door unlocked? I think not.

Will a delayed highscore from main menu deter mastermind from getting their info? likely not. Will it prevent at least some "petty thief" (no offense intended to any TW play style, this is figure of speech) from running their simple player sniffer script? possibly.

Finally, John, form a programmer point of view, adding an optional feature is always good. Giving more tool to help the sysop run the game the way he intend it is the right way to go. Even if the tool is not perfect, its better than having none.

4 man corps, 2 hour window - seems that leaves lots of time left for other teams. Low turns, 2 hours will be plents of time... Or corps sharing a time bank.. that would be a fun twist. Someone could take a day off and the team would not loose turns.

There are players who enjoy slower, time and turn limit games. Let them enjoy!

Back when the rules for Corps were created, only one corp member was allowed in the game at a time. So much has changed since then. Personally, I think it's an issue that a one-man corp or even solo player is at a disadvantage vs multi-man corp in a time-limited game, simply as a function of time spent in the game. If there is to be any parity between corps of various sizes, there needs to be an equal number of turns/time for every corp, regardless of size. Just something to consider...

So what prevents a player from leaving a corp to get around these limitations, and then re-joining the corp?

Yeah that would promote mega corping then.

Not saying we have to do the same, but EvE online gameplay is heavily centered on corporation and in this game, if you leave a corp, you cannot join or create one for a few days.

I agree with Rem0te, it would take some additional rules on how you interact with Corps. What are the "legitimate" reasons for leaving and rejoining a Corp? Would there be a problem with a Corp being a more rigid entity in some games? Once you're in a Corp, you're in the Corp until you leave or are booted, and then you can't rejoin for a specified time if at all?

There are many shenanigans related to Corps these days.

Change CEOs to allow for the use of the corp flag by a better player.

The "legitimate" reason is up to your players' ethics, and that means no ethics in some instances, ie., rotating multiple players through the corp to exceed the maximum turns/time that a corp would normally have.

               / Promethius / Enigma / Wolfen /

"A man who has no skills can be taught, a man who has no honor has nothing."

You used the word "ethics" on a Trade Wars forum.... lol

I don't know weather to laugh or cry... That is soooo funny, but very sad...

I don't see a problem with a Promote option so you don't have to shuffle players around by quitting and rejoining. There have been ways to circumvent Corp rules forever, like having both Reds and Blues on the same Corp when the game clearly means for Corps to be a single alignment.

I know.. I've had to learn and develop a lot of new strategies to keep up here. In the past it was more more difficult to work out he logistics of running two corps as one team. There's a lot about today's game that's much easier to play now than before.. and I mean before we knew about mega rob.

OK, how's this idea for turn pooling? Sort of a twist on the turn bank now. Each player gets max turns daily, those turns not used go into a turn bank for any corp member to draw upon the next day. Max turns in turn bank would have a limit like today's turn bank. This would mean possibly showing two turns remaining. your turns and the corp banked turns.

Ah... the more I think about this the more it sounds like a v4.xx project.

Removing the # who's on and CLV is rediculous. The scripter groups that take adantage of these are nothing more than cheaters, useing game features for unintented purposes. Their attitudes disgust me and I am sure many others. l The fact remains it wont matter what you do JP they will find a way around it as soon as you release it. It unfortunatly will end up in the sysop's lap to prove they are cheating or useing unintended actions.

Saddens me to see this persistant group of cheaters continue to drive players away from the game.

If the game allows it, how is it cheating? Gathering information from the changes in the CLV screen is cheating? Am I missing your sarcasm?

I'm saddened that the game I enjoy is being 'dumbed-down' to the level of the simplest player...

How many others have you heard from? How are you so sure?

The fact that things like CLV and port reports can be used to gather information about player activity when they were never intended to be used this way is a flaw in the design, and it's a choice between fixing the flaws or letting the game remain broken. I don't want to change much, and what I do will be optional, but if it's possible to make a minor change like delaying CLV updates to remove a tactic that is detrimental to gameplay, then I'll do it. Then there won't be a question about whether or not it's cheating because the game simply won't allow it.