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Franceseb

Single Player
drsebfree.fr

Thu Apr 28, 2005 3:35 pm   Post subject: IP Not logged in.

Hi,
I understand you certainly need to save IP addresses for security purposes, prevent abuses and general game management. This was also used a long time ago before there were country/region flags.
But is it really necessary to have these data exposed to everyone? Some people might find this is personal information: for privacy:, for security reasons (a sysadmin would hate to see his machine's IP exposed I guess). Maybe also it can discourage some people to play (think about all those bored Microsoft developers who are afraid to play bd4 during work because their machine name would betray them :).

Maybe it could just be replaced by the player's flag and/or country. And it'd be a shorter column. While I'm at it, do you have any EU flag image you could use for me instead of the french one? You can leave country to france, but I'm not really a french flag fan

seb
Australia (WA)Wil

Single Player
wilamristar.com.au

Fri Apr 29, 2005 2:54 am   Post subject: Not logged in.

Okay, send me the flag and assuming it's the right size I'll add it. Unfortunately my country name is unique, so we'll have to go with France/EU or something else you can suggest, maybe "France."

On IP... yeah, I see your point. It sort of sucks... based on the changing nature of the net. I'll think about this one. If you have an issue I can omit them for anyone with playerID 1864 - hey, that would be you. It's spretty heavily tied in with the server, remote looking up, threads, etc, etc. I also like to post a game or two when I'm overseas 'cause it looks classy. That said some of these score may not be beated since I like the host the game was played from.... just checking... level 64 - doh! I played it from here... seems I've lost my culturely diverse scores. I did have various european cafe scores in 1998. Damn ticks may have screwed me there.: