Reference: http://www.classictw.com/viewtopic.php?f=52&t=30799

This was brought forward in the Beta section and both my wife and I recall asking about this before. Ideally, it would be nice to have an option to specify number of connections to a game.

Currently, there is a Node editor, but is disabled/not used with the current TWGS interface. We have done a similar idea using both the BBS and DOS version of TradeWars. We've configured just 5 nodes for TradeWars and the BBS contains 10+. So if there are 10 people on the BBS and 5 go to TradeWars, if user 6-10 try to access TradeWars, they get the message that the door is full/busy/in use and to try later.

For example, option in T-EDIT might look like:

< # > Number connections allowed, where 0 is unlimited

Or something along those lines. The idea is to control how many can access the game at a time. Nothing I would call a major need- it was an option we had in the DOS version. With this as an option, I can see a few possibilities on expansions to some game edits we've created.

I would agree but there needs to be method from keeping people idling at the score menu locking others from playing. I think this would a great enhancement for old school type / building games. But how would this be accomplished? I would say Honor System but we all know that would never work.
Edit - Or would it not look actually at the node but how many players are currently in game so for others that wanted to idle at the history/score menu would not be blocking others?

Or, just have a standard time limit. You play your time and then you are done for the day.

This causes two problems:
1. You need a TL for node-limit game to work.
2. People will still camp out, so TLs must be short.

Most players do not like small timelimits. I've offered
TL games for quite a while and don't get a lot of play
there. So I suspect if we restrict node limits to only
games with small time limits, there won't be a lot of
play in those games.

Having a session-based TL would allow us to create
limited node games with a login every 30 or 60 mins.
There wouldn't need to be a game time limit, or it
could be set to something larger like 12 hours, which
would attract more players.

Another thought came at me early in the morning regarding connections to games. Currently we have the "Limit one user per IP" option in the configuration of the TWGS. If checked, only one IP can connect. Is there a possibility to consider allowing this option on a game level, and allow the Sysop to specify the number in the game? For example, perhaps I only want to allow one IP in game A, but I'm running Dupe Chess and will allow up to 5 using the same IP in game B. Another example is we would allow max 2 users with the same IP connect to the rest of the games. If a third tries to connect, they can't. The idea here is to specify in-game the number of users allowed to use the same IP in a game.

It would be nice if we could have that, with an exception list.

For example, if you have confirmed that two players are husband and wife, brother and sister, etc, connecting via the same IP address, you can have them both connect at the same time, otherwise 1 IP per game at a time.