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Flood protection

Posted: 12 Sep 2007, 15:26
by Quiche_on_a_leash
Hi,

I've just been discussing this in game with a few people and it's seems like a good idea.

Many players seem to enjoy going around spamming rubbish which for all the other players around is quite annoying especially when you're trying to have a conversation with other people.
The more juvenile players enjoy the attention this brings them when asked to refrain from spamming and spam even more.

To prevent this a system could be implement that stops players saying the same thing more than once in a given amount of time and also stops players from saying more than a given amount of messages in a defined period of time.

Posted: 12 Sep 2007, 15:40
by ElvenProgrammer
That's a feature we will surely add to tmwserv.

Re: Flood protection

Posted: 12 Sep 2007, 15:57
by Crush
Some kind of anti-spam system would be quite useful. Especially because massive spamming in crowded areas can create a huge server load. Sending 10 lines per second with a length of 100 byte each to 20 people = 20 kb/s upstream.
Quiche_on_a_leash wrote:To prevent this a system could be implement that stops players saying the same thing more than once in a given amount of time and also stops players from saying more than a given amount of messages in a defined period of time.
Could you please be a bit more specific about how the rules should be?