Sitters (backup players)
I would like to see a features from the web based game Travian.
They have a function called Sitters which means that you can add 1 or 2 persons who are allowed to user your account (like when you leave for a vacation or extended leave for some reason).
As it works in Travian, those users can then just put in your account name and login with their regular password.
Perhaps there could even be some kind of notification that it was a sitter who made the move, perhaps an asterisk after the name so something like this:
Zydox*
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{101st} Freedom Crusader commented
have played "Travian" before and the sitter function is pretty good when you dont have time to be on internett for some time.
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{101st} Freedom Crusader commented
but it should be a setting to change how long time it must have passed since you last made your move, to keep sitters from playing games you would normally have time to play yourself.
also have a function that sends messages to a inbox in warlight when you are requiered to make moves(if the account player lose connection or neds to go away whitout time to contact the sitters)
also must make locks on map making and everything else so the sitters may only make moves in games and do nothing else.
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Gavin Garrett commented
Or maybe a button, so you dont have to wait until boot time, Perrin.
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Perrin3088 commented
I like this idea.. a similar idea is to let people take over anyone that is past say boot time, or boot time X2 *maybe take over for AI's in games where it's designed for it*
www.webdiplomacy.com allows you to do similar.. it has set turns for X time instead of until everyones moved, but it should work in a similar fashion with AI's inputted.. someone could come in and take over for said AI, at the point when they show up, and continue to play.. -
Zydox commented
Link to Travian's sitter wiki:
http://travian.wikia.com/wiki/Sitters