ErikH2000
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Currently, a player who did not author a hold must conquer it before he's allowed to edit it. Eytan brought up that this causes some problems:
1. If you lose your player data, then you can't edit the hold.
2. Collaboration with other authors is difficult because they can't edit one of your holds.

He suggested that anyone with a password should be allowed to edit the hold. I'd rather avoid using passwords to gain access to things. You still have the problem of somebody that gets locked out of their own hold because they forgot their password. Plus, I guess it just seems a little clunky.

How about this instead? Have a "Who can edit?" setting for Holds with three options: "Only You", "You and Conquerors", or "Anyone". The default will be set to "Anyone". The author may wish to set to "Only You" or "You and Conquerors" after he is ready to release the hold.

Mike, Eytan, anyone else, how does this sound?

-Erik


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mrimer
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I like it. Nice idea. (But we'll have to change the data format!!!)

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ErikH2000
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mrimer wrote:
I like it. Nice idea. (But we'll have to change the data format!!!)

Yeah, that's a pain, but we should be able to change the data format while we're in beta.

Maybe for the build that changes the data format we can ask our testers to export their holds using the previous build and reimport them using the new build. The import code in the new build can supply a default value for the missing privilege information.

-Erik

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mrimer
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I agree on all this. Sounds like the best solution so far.

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eytanz
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I personally prefer password protection, but I think this is an excellent comprimise.

(by the way, I'm away from my regular computer until Sunday, so I can't do any testing over the next two days.)

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mrimer
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Ok, it's in build 24!

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