ghostlyy wrote:I'm not even into getting the resources yet, but I did want to chime in on the private forum matter... I am a part of another forum that has a "Verified" section, but the moderators did have to manually verify everyone. One way we could do this here would be to have a board set apart that you only grant access to certain people, or give out a password for that forum, and have the moderators each make a facebook and connect their FB or GC accounts and then add players to see that they're on whatever level with whatever town worth, etc? Just a thought. Sorry if that's too much threadjacking!
This forum is supposed to be easy accessible. I could implement a restricted new user area, but adding manual verification simply adds more work than deleting and banning spammers. (That aside from the original reason to have a protected subforum).
Password protected subfora is a bad idea for this forum, now people can read the whole forum without the need to register. I can't think of anything that needs to be shielded from the public eye, not even from FM/EA. Consider the amount of time it takes to browse through the forum to search for potential exploits. I do know that FM keeps an eye on Facebook and even there they can't possibly see everything that's being discussed about the game. They do get the exploit information from FB and Youtube, but mostly from those who publicly post exploits on the game page or make and promote videos about it. I do know they scan my public FB posts, Nina even replied to one in the past.
FB/GC in-game verification is completely over the top and impossible to actually do. The visible list of neighbours is limited to 100 (I have 1200 people on GC and FB combined). This comes close to those FB groups with a minimal level requirement and that's not the purpose of this forum.
If spam does become a big problem, I will look into other counter-measures.
Exploits are few and far in between and once the word is out, it'll be all over FB (and the rest of the internet), so it doesn't really matter how shielded we make a subforum.
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