FAQ

Differences to other platform

Short:The system is designed to take care of itself, keep costs at a minimum and give the community tools to avoid disturbances from abusive behaviour (federations, invite only).

• Unmoderated: The platform is unmoderated. In case you observe abuse, drop me a message.
• Event driven: Event in the context means a browser, crawler or spider trying to access the webpage. I.e., you load one of your current games, that is an event. A Game proceeds only if such an event takes place. Assuming some people start a game, and nobody is visiting it anymore (and also no search engine crawler tries to read it) nothing happens. In other words, the system has no inner clock watching for deadlines to proceed games.
  Only if someone or something checks for the game, the system checks if the deadline has passed and if so, it proceeds the game.
  This implicates that a new game phase starts not as soon as the deadline has passed. Instead, a new game phase starts as soon as someone requests the game page after the deadline has passed.
• Messages are deleted after a game has finished.
• Limited privileges for game masters: GMs cannot read other players orders before they have been executed. They cannot read private conversations. Aside of initiating the game, their privilege is to proceed or pause the game in case the control mode is set to manual or both.
• Players cannot leave the game as soon as the game is ongoing.
• Games cannot be deleted as soon as they are ongoing.
• No draws: Currently players cannot draw games by mutual decsision. This might be implemented in future.