All credit goes to Kestas and Oliver, I'm just the bearer of good news!

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Semi anon is truly semi anon! Huzzah!

Nice. How will they be ordered now? Randomly or alphabetically?

In anon-games it's by countryID, in non-anon-games it's by player point totals.

Sweet... any chance the "last visted/currently logged in" info can be removed from player's profiles? This, in addition to the above change, would go a long ways to ensuring that anon games are truly anon.

Why? If they post on the forum you can figure out they are online and use it. Honestly, that is only useful if someone is going out of their way to try and figure out who is who. I would argue it is easier for the mods to declare "attempting to figure out who is what country using means outside of the game" as a rule violation would serve a much better purpose. I know I figured one out not to long ago in a takeover because the person who advertised for the takeover was responding to my quesries and no one else was so it had to be the forum poster.

I should clarify, that was not my intent and was purely a serendipitous moment.

I second Barn3tt's request.

The problem with what you suggest, Draugnar, is how will the Mods know if someone is tracking players log in times with a particular game. Unless they openly admit it, there's no proof. Simply taking away the tool that people use to go around the rule would be much easier.

But in a truly anon game, you would have to guess the correft 6 other players and what you take away even in a semi anon game can still be determined from forum postings. The better solution would be to eliminate any time indicators on anon games so that postinga wouldn't indicate anything except the phase and there would be no logged in dot or last seen times. But only in game. The other is quite useful for determining in non-anon if someone just hasn't been on the site or is just ignoring the game.

Perhaps displaying the info could be a settings option. Being able to create threads or reply to them anonymously would help too.

Or how about people quit trying to cheat the system? That would work. And whoever has the time to go around and check when someone posts in the forum against when they made moves in the game are truly people with no fucking life.

You can wish in one hand and crap in the other, but I'd rather fix the loophole than trust a bunch of Diplomacy players. That's just me though. :)

No shit (pun intended)

Why? If they post on the forum you can figure out they are online and use it. Honestly, that is only useful if someone is going out of their way to try and figure out who is who.

Well, most of us do not post on the forum as frequently as you do- I don't see the forum post tracking as a viable tool for figuring out who is who. Comparing log off info with when players moves are entered is a used tool. One player in Lando's tourney said that they knew who each of the players in their games was. This is how (or a combination of this and the now fixed bug).

I would appreciate if someone could clarify the issue a bit for me. It seems to me that if you wish to play an anonymous game, then you shouldn't be performing OSINT analysis on your opponents.

If, by contrast, you are worried that third parties are using OSINT on you due to forum posts, then perhaps you should post less on the forums, or else post in a different tone. Or if you are concerned that people are using your logon times to fingerprint you, then perhaps you should get your hands on a script that keeps you logged on permanently.

Do these suggestions fail to address the perceived problem?