Matchbots spamming

[H.M.S. Stargazer]

Make the matchbots only accept the input from one person !challenge squad:# twice in 3-5 minutes.
There is no reason to let people do it more than that. It would cut back on the amount of spam. Everyone wins!

[Maverick]

1:MMaverick> don't see the problem, stargazer
1:MMaverick> are there players doing !challenge over and over?
1:H.M.S. Stargazer> always
1:H.M.S. Stargazer> we get cheaters from it
1:H.M.S. Stargazer> its an ez preventive measure
1:H.M.S. Stargazer> that makes the game better for all
1:MMaverick> not really easy, the bot has to be modified to not handle one certain command (!challenge) from a specific player for a specific amount of time
1:H.M.S. Stargazer> :P
1:H.M.S. Stargazer> well then discuss with the othe smods :P
1:H.M.S. Stargazer> we the mods were discussing it last night :P
1:MMaverick> it's a good improvement, it's not just so easy to do :p
1:MMaverick> !challenge is available on each Matchbot, right?
1:H.M.S. Stargazer> yes
1:MMaverick> ah ok

If anyone can do this in a clean way, be my guest :)

[dugwyler]

If this didn't have the "twice in 3-5 minutes" caveat it would be much, much easier to implement. How about allowing it once a minute, or once every 90 seconds? Then all that's needed is a mapping from the player name to the last time they challenged. Would use either a loose map to removes unused entries, or have a task that runs once every 30 min or so to check for outdated entries so as not to eat up memory.

[subby]

if you let players to do just one !challenge in a minute, it would affect the ones that only challenges multiple squads. the block should affect challenging same squad in a row in defined time... somekind of a timed tablehandler should be made containing the player challenging and squads challenged.

[milosh]

Going for consistency.

[fantus]

See ticket #261