New Player with Same IP

cgalik · Post by **cgalik** » Thu Jan 19, 2017 8:14 pm

Hey LT,

So I'm a LT veteran and my son has watched me play some games. We started playing https://play.freeciv.org/ against each other. Now he wants to play LT.

I'm wondering if it's ok to allow him and myself to play this game with me. I will most definitely be helping and teaching him and looking at his screen and him also mine. We may even play at the same time on different computers. He lives with me and it will be of course be from the same IP address when we are both home. He hasn't made an account yet, but will if it's ok if he plays.

I can take myself and him off an winners list now if someone objects, no problem. I always try to win, but would be more fun to play with him than win. Post here or if you'd rather object privately, send a private message to me or admin.

This has happened before in LT30: http://forum.longturn.org/viewtopic.php?id=52.

Thanks for considering,
cgalik

Post by **wieder** » Thu Jan 19, 2017 8:57 pm

Hey cgalik,

I don't see a problem there as long as people know you are playing together. This is of course my personal opinion and not the collective opinion or any kind of administration decision.

If people knowing each other and/or living together want to play it makes sense for them to play. We might want to make more some kind of team games if this would become really common but with few "home team" players playing together hardly seems any trouble.

Unfortunately LT37 has just started so he needs to wait for LT38. The forum for LT38 will be opened shortly and this time there shouldn't be too much delay between the games. The current ruleset should need much less changes for the next game. Hopefully only minor changes quick and easy to make.

cgalik · Post by **cgalik** » Thu Jan 19, 2017 9:15 pm

Sounds good, and yeah too late for LT37. We'll see what others think. (I should have posted in general forum, not LT37 forum.)

edrim · Post by **edrim** » Fri Jan 20, 2017 8:48 am

There was some players playing from same ip. But first of all they wrote it in forum about it.
So it is ok to play with same ip.
How will you play and ig you will check how it is going it is your decission not ours.

Post by **Corbeau** » Fri Jan 20, 2017 12:02 pm

cgalik wrote:I always try to win, but would be more fun to play with him than win.

You're finally getting it

As far as I'm concerned, if there is ANY way of getting the kid into LT37, I'd go for it. Why wait for a year? He'll lose interest by then

cgalik · Post by **cgalik** » Fri Jan 20, 2017 12:07 pm

Haha thanks Corbeau. Maybe there will be an idler got him to take over.

chill · Post by **chill** » Fri Jan 20, 2017 4:39 pm

Sounds good to me. I hope he will have the chance to take over for an idler.

Post by **Corbeau** » Fri Jan 20, 2017 6:41 pm

I'm guessing there's no way to ADD another nation afte the game has started?

cgalik · Post by **cgalik** » Fri Jan 20, 2017 7:29 pm

I don't know the admin stuff, but I am sure we will have at least one idler.