"Once the active advantages for a game slot have been set, and the Host has run, they're locked in on that slot for the duration of the game." ; http://help.planets.nu/campaign
Glad my information made it into Documentation... and even if it didn't, Martinr's got it up there in his noggin as well!
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However... still think that the first thing that should occur when you join a new Campaign-mode Sector position, is that you are prompted to pick your Advantages then and there.
People change their Advantages after joining as well, so that anyone who looks at their account will not see what they have in that Sector.
People keep locking in wrong/none/bad Advantages in by accident... and that you can simply monitor a Sector so that you see what their Advantages on their Officer are before they can change them... only takes one second between joining the game and exiting to change them again before.
I've been trying to figure how I Host a Campaign-mode game and avoid this flaw... but my solution would be to harvest the info and make it public for my Sector, with those joining knowing full well their Advantages will become known a second after they join. Ideally everyone joins within a few seconds of each other, so no one can change their own Advantages in response to what others set.
Doesn't that sound like a lovely simple solution? /sarcasm
Or... just not care... I know how to find Homeworlds based of the Planet locations and Starmap settings (default settings anyhow, reducing closePlanets and veryClosePlanets to zero, and reducing minimum distance from 155 to 0, although there is still a bit of a buffer around HWs)... but even I don't bother... I do however intend to use reduced Scan Ranges and reduce min distance... keep closePlanets and veryClosePlanets however to maintain balance. Also need to test more if the "good native planets" only work with closePlanets and VeryClosePlanets higher than 0.
Also need to test what occurs if there are no planets within 162 ly, if nearest planet gets "good native planet" boost.
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Story time!
Now when CrystalCT made a script that simply used the API to request other players Advantages in a particular Sector... our access to that information was cut off... really quite quickly. But I had already looked up what all my opponents Advantages were. I didn't expect them to prevent us accessing this info... I never assumed they would encourage us to obscure our Advantages... it just seems another way to take Advantage of those not aware of this aspect.
Not sure if I should have spilled the beans about this exploit... if you stare at the screen hitting refresh and then racing to view the new players Advantages on their officer... you probably deserve to know them! However... writing code to monitor 24/7 is not a huge project at all.
But I'm sure lots of people aren't even changing their Advantages after joining anyhow... but maybe all of the veterans are.
With the talk of building tools to harvest the Activity Feed for a 3rd party forum... it was only a matter of time before someone not only thought of the same exploit... but actually made it work.
I'm not sure if it is CONTACT form worthy (Yes, Seinfeld).
This is more of a UserVoice docket thing... if you care enough, make a docket please. I'll figure out what I'm doing about it around New Years for my own Sector. |
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