TIPS replacement?

[wyntermoonwolf]

TIPS, while very handy, seems to be quite buggy. Is there another system in place already that does the job?

I tried contacting the author but the emails are bouncing.

If not, I've already started creating a replacement that will provide the same functionality and hopefully with the bugs taken care of. Also, I'll provide additional functionality like support for SMS messaging to your cell phone - I can already support over 50 wireless providers with more coming.

A couple things I have in mind:
It's clear the cogs have their fingers in TIPS. I've had alerts I've placed canceled within minutes - the cogs want to keep their invasions silent! So only the person who placed the alert can cancel the alert. To account for people who forget to cancel an alert, it'll auto-cancel after two hours.

The cogs have also been placing false alerts for the Cry Wolf effect to discourage people from using TIPS. The number of alerts you can place in an hour will be pretty small to help prevent against false alarms. It won't prevent against them entirely considering how insanely easy it is to get a free email account to simply create multiple accounts. Blocking via IP isn't feasible either since so many users are behind proxies (such as AOL users) and dial-up users typically get a new IP ever time they reconnect.

So, any other ideas that I can add?

-John, aka Flappy Fuzzyfoot

[parkwest]

Woo hoo YOU ROCK! Looking forward to your program being operational

[Nick]

If you need somewhere to host the system ttc can help in that regard.

[wyntermoonwolf]

I was able to contact the creator of TIPS and he stated that he is currently working on a re-write. I've informed him of the bugs I've seen and the enhancements I mentioned above.

[Mr Red Bull]

Well one thing I think the/a new program shud not have, is the stat for most invasions reported.

Only think it encourages false invasion reports as some peeps think they can make the top of the list, the idea of reporting an invasion is let all others know where the action is safe in the knowledge that others will return the favour as well.

The other ideas you mentioned above all sound sensible, especially as the last major invasion seemed to overload TIPS, probs because of peeps starting stoping invasions, program constantly on the go, lol

'Keep it Kool '

[Prince Fire Toon]

the reason plp end the invasions is cause they want the invasoin 4 themselfs and dont want any1 to know also this may be the cause of false invasions.

[FUNY DRAGON]

off topic but how do people know about invasions just curious.

[Gigglesnort]

Originally Posted by wyntermoonwolf

So, any other ideas that I can add?

I'd suggest making the automatic timeout closer to an hour--you can always re-report the invasion if it continues after the timeout.

It might be nice to mark the name of the reporter next to an open invasion. That way, I might get a sense of which folks I can trust (I suspect that not all the cog-minded will change their accounts frequently).

There's another thread in this forum that contains feature requests for those (rare) times when many many invasions happen at once.

Feature requests for invasion frenzy

[Colonel Waldo]

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[Colonel Waldo]

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[Colonel Waldo]

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