NationStates Jolt Archive

Well, I think this is a new idea. I just tried to get into a region, and when I did, I found out it was password protected. I looked at the regional happenings, expecting to see a warning to the nations inside the region. I was surprised that nations inside a blocked region could not see when some one tried to get in.

Here is what I propose, when a nation attempts to get into a region, the regional happenings are updated to show that a nation (unsecsesfully) tried to get in.

This would solve greifer problems, defender regions would be able to see who was attacking them.

This might cause a band-width issue, but I was just wondering.

i thought there was.

This is already in place. Once you try to unsuccessfuly join a region that is password protected, it will say this-

Regional Happenings-

(Whatever nation) tried to join (Whatever region) but did not know the password.

The warning is only posted if the password is guessed incorrectly.

a number of times

a number of timesNo, once will do it.

I think I tried to do this once (unintentionally) but no happenings warning showed up in the region ...

I know that there is a happenings warning, but is it maybe for every attempt after the first?

-----
The Most Serene People's Republic of Naleth
"Life is a suicide mission"
Shameless Plug for Adelaide (http://www.nationstates.net/cgi-bin/index.cgi/page=display_region/region=Adelaide)
Getting Help Page (http://www.nationstates.net/cgi-bin/index.cgi/page=help)
The Tech FAQ (http://www.nationstates.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=81296)

A test:

1. I set the password 'rightpassword' on Fnord Cabal
2. I try to enter the region, using the password 'wrongpassword'
3. A message:
"Moving from North Somerset to Fnord Cabal: You have not entered the correct password for Fnord Cabal."
4.The regional happenings board:
2 minutes ago: The Sanctum Arcana of Phoebos password-protected the region.
5 days ago: The UnSTOPable Nation of The NationStates Bunny departed this region for FO ALL MY FOOS
5 days ago: The UnSTOPable Nation of The NationStates Bunny arrived from Flyngistan.
27 days ago: The Sanctum Arcana of Phoebos departed this region for North Somerset
5. I try again to enter the region, using the password 'incorrectpassword'
6. A message:
"Moving from North Somerset to Fnord Cabal: You have not entered the correct password for Fnord Cabal."
7. The regional happenings board:
5 minutes ago: The Sanctum Arcana of Phoebos password-protected the region.
5 days ago: The UnSTOPable Nation of The NationStates Bunny departed this region for FO ALL MY FOOS

8. You get the idea for the third attempt.
9. I try a fourth and fifth time. This time, I get a new message:
"Since you have repeatedly entered the wrong password in a short period of time, you have been temporarily blocked from moving into password-protected regions. "
10. The regional happenings board:
10 minutes ago: The Sanctum Arcana of Phoebos password-protected the region.
5 days ago: The UnSTOPable Nation of The NationStates Bunny departed this region for FO ALL MY FOOS
5 days ago: The UnSTOPable Nation of The NationStates Bunny arrived from Flyngistan.

Now, as I can't try any more times due to being blocked, and as the message hasn't come up... where is it? Or does my being founder of the region have anything to do with this?

A further test: I repeated the experiment with a puppet completely unafilliated with Fnord Cabal, and once again got to the blocked stage without any mention on the regional happenings board.

Bug?

I'll look into it.

The message is not posted all the time, to prevent it from being used as a spam weapon. From memory, the warning only comes up if the nation tried 3 or more times to enter, and then it's only posted once (not every unsuccessful attempt from then on).

How come it didn't appear during my test? I tried to enter the region 5 times, with two successive nations

Did you try entering passwords?

[EDIT]
I tried that until I got "Since you have repeatedly entered the wrong password in a short period of time, you have been temporarily blocked from moving into password-protected regions." and still no message was displayed.