Better spam/grief protection in Casual Quest

ID:957948
 
Sep 1 2012, 11:46 am
Casual Quest by IainPeregrine
A fast paced, casual, multi player action game with a little RPG touch
473 fans · Created Sep 19 2010
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Split pauses into two types: immediate and vote.

Players can use an immediate pause every 10 minutes. It takes effect immediately (duh), but can also be unpaused by other players with the standard 3 second delay. Spectators can unpause the game with a 30 second delay.

The vote pause allows a player to request that the game be paused, and shows a little icon over their head. Other players can then "approve" or "deny" the request. If more players approve than deny within a certain time frame (the requester doesn't count, non-voters are neutral), the game is paused. You can vote to pause during an immediate pause, and if it is successful, the person who used their immediate pause gets it back. To unpause the approved pause, a similar vote must pass (however, anyone who approved the pause will default to voting against unpausing, in case they're AFK).


Auto-mute players that spam


Prevent people from tying up the server by AFKing a wave in the corner. Maybe if it isn't beaten within 2 minutes (and no enemies are being killed), eyeballs (ones that track players) or reapers should start to spawn, with increasing frequency.


Thoughts? Issues? Abusable?
#1 Sep 1 2012, 12:17 pm
Spectators can unpause the game? Highly abusable
#2 Sep 1 2012, 12:18 pm
Spectator unpause sounds like a useless feature.
#3 Sep 1 2012, 1:08 pm
Well, think about it. One person joins a server, starts the game, and pauses. If a spectator can't unpause, how do you stop someone from essentially blocking a server?
#4 Sep 1 2012, 3:05 pm
In response to DarkCampainger (#3)
You could have admins 0_o or place a limit and a cooldown on pausing.
#5 Sep 2 2012, 12:33 am
Admins would be one solution, but if they're not on to boot someone you're back to where you started. Iain has never seemed interested in promoting people to admins anyway.

It would be nice to see an auto mute for players who spam the crap out of the chat window.

Spectators shouldn't be able to unpause at all. They generally only do it to be disruptive.
You could have pause last for a maximum of 5 minutes or so. It would be enough to prevent people from pausing indefinitely to be a troll and stop others from playing. And something to stop them from pausing every single wave. Can get really annoying. :P

As for the AFK players... A hoard of Reapers would be a fun way to deal with it.