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Why do all in-game pages require you to be logged in?

Postby Seibertron » Sat Sep 08, 2018 2:54 pm

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Can anyone give me a good reason why pages like arena and mission log pages, character pages, high scores, etc require you to login and are not publicly viewable? I understand pages like the pages that are specific to your account, but it seems like the pages that are able to be viewed by all players should be publicly viewable and should not require you to be logged in to view.
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Re: Why do all in-game pages require you to be logged in?

Postby S.o.L. » Sat Sep 08, 2018 4:15 pm

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In mission logs, the titles and descriptions are faction specific, the decepticons see one title and the autobots another.
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Re: Why do all in-game pages require you to be logged in?

Postby Psychout » Sat Sep 08, 2018 5:11 pm

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IIRC, you set that up ages ago.

You got sent a DCMA (or whatever copyright claims were called back then) over a character name from some blogger or something, so you changed it all to be log-in only and the unwashed masses couldn't see and try and claim they owned team/character names.


Edit: Totally agree that as long as we can manage the above, making logs/high scores publicly viewable would be a great step in publicising the game again.
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Re: Why do all in-game pages require you to be logged in?

Postby Burn » Sat Sep 08, 2018 6:09 pm

Motto: "Freedom is the right of all sentient beings to randomly click things in the Admin Panel to see what it breaks."
Psychout wrote:IIRC, you set that up ages ago.

You got sent a DCMA (or whatever copyright claims were called back then) over a character name from some blogger or something, so you changed it all to be log-in only and the unwashed masses couldn't see and try and claim they owned team/character names.


Edit: Totally agree that as long as we can manage the above, making logs/high scores publicly viewable would be a great step in publicising the game again.

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Re: Why do all in-game pages require you to be logged in?

Postby sumowrestler » Sat Sep 08, 2018 8:17 pm

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Not to sidetrack things a bit but once you get the other websites up, will someone be able to log into one site and be logged into each site. What I am thinking is like how proboards has theirs set up.
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