Login Screen

[dispater]

i was wondering if a login screen could be implemented in the game.
some things that could help if we have a account on tremulous and are able to customize our keys to a autoexec file. then whenever we login  the client would automatically download our configurations from our account in tremulous and the player could still have every configuration he wants. this would also helps stop name stealing since there would be a certain online name attached to every account and help promote it to people who play in cafes.

comments are welcome and ithink this would make a great addtion to the game. it allows people to play it and still be able to have binds and keys they would want.

[Ksempac]

Give a lot of money to the Team and they will set up a server to implement an ID system which will also be useful to deal with griefers.

When your donation is made, Timbo will be more than happy to do it because its one of the thing that would really helps the game (since griefers are the main problem ingame). Until then, forget about it.

[Stof]

they will set up a server to implement an ID system which will also be useful to deal with griefers.

No it won't.

[ZEL]

The best way to deal with griefers is with watchful and responsible admins.  They usually dont have much of a problem with griefers on well administrated servers because the griefers quickly get kicked and banned.  The understanding is that if you decon etc. you're not playing on the server again, and it seems to work well on the servers i admin.

[Rawr]

they will set up a server to implement an ID system which will also be useful to deal with griefers.

No it won't.

yes it would

~ban by username would be handy, but thats kinda more on the lines of twj

[Ksempac]

Let me explain a bit : One day on IRC we were speaking about Global ID, and Timbo explained that it would cost quite a bit of money to set this kind of thing. Since players dont like to spend money, you will never see a Global ID system.

And yes it could be useful to prevent griefers, since there wouldn t be any ID theft, so you could screen and send it to an admin of the server, who would be able to ban him when he comes back. Right now, you have no idea who is playing with which nick.

[vcxzet]

maybe local ids? (server based)
anyways, using ids would also reduce the number of players/noobs/pros/TKers/deconers
and entering username password is too annoying

[Kobrakai]

If I won the lottery (and I mean the millions), I would totally donate a few ten thousand dollars to the tremulous developement team.

This is hypothetical however. As it is, I can barely afford to donate 20 bucks. Sorry guys.

[Rawr]

just having it so you cant change your name in game would help somewhat.
would it work making it so that in the origional download for basic tremulous, instead of the regular tremulous.exe (.dmg, .x86) making it so its tjw's binary ?

[Shafe]

maybe local ids? (server based)
anyways, using ids would also reduce the number of players/noobs/pros/TKers/deconers
and entering username password is too annoying

That seems like it would be a good idea..

As in the server could download via http a text file every few days from a central source containing known greifers guid's and real names.. while at the same time sending an update,  going via http, having it server side only and limiting the updates would siginificantly cut down on costs of implementing something like this.