Player name anonymity

[fruthmitch-web]

Would love to have my players' names be anonymous and just show countries.

[johnpooch]

We have "gunboat" games. These are games where players are anonymous and cannot communicate to each other. Are you talking about having an anonymous game with chat?

[fruthmitch-web]

Yes correct. I’d like player names anonymous but you still have the full capability of chatting country to country.

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[JorenC]

There is something to say for this long run - especially if you play with friends, for example. I know I'm always attacked immediately because they believe I know more about the game and they just want to mess with me. Having a game be focused on fully learning the nation from the start is true. It *is* another toggle though... And I don't think an urgent use case now... But I see the use case.

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[johnpooch]

I think it's a pretty straight forward change. All of the functionality exists, we just need another label for it.

It's not the type of toggle that bothers me too much. The toggles that bother me are more like "user options". Eg I want SCs to be coloured like this.

The difficulty I see is just in how we surface this on the create game screen

I had been thinking that we would have a small number of fixed game "modes" e.g. standard, gunboat, etc

Do we want to add this as a new game mode? Or should we break game modes out into individual controls?

Or better yet, when a user selects gunboat, does that actually just select the "anonymous players" and "no press" advanced options. That way we keep modes for simple players but you can break out of it if you want

[JorenC]

I am a bit hesitant at 'fixed modes' and more at 'game options'. Right now in Gunboat we make players anonymous - but we don't have to - then it's still gunboat. I would suggest we keep them separate (maybe all at 'advanced' - then we have Variant > Deadlines > Advanced). In this case, I'd name it 'press' vs 'gunboat' and 'anonymous' as a checkbox. By default, the anonymous checkbox could be checked when the user selects gunboat (and preserve the previous state when going back to press - to whatever it was before the user changed to gunboat). That feel more control to me. My hesitation is making fixed modes that are combinations of options, when we have them available for free. But I'm not VERY strong on this. It just makes most sense, with the community of advanced dip players.

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