Flood Control

[totalpsycho89]

Yes, it's me again. Once again, I apologize if this has already been suggested and shot down, but I didn't find anything via search and I don't believe it has been implemented.
Flood control. Or closest local equivalent. Perhaps one message per 2-5 seconds, so spamming isn't quite so annoying.

[female]

RE: Flood Control

If you mean in Multiplayer, yes I've suggested this before.
I don't quite remember what the outcome was or if there was any reply, who knows.
At least now it seems that it doesn't shut down the whole MP when someone spams too much. Less lag now ... Dunno if that was the solution or not though. :/

[Eyoshi]

There used to be an implement that would remove players from MP if they entered messages too fast. However, it was removed.

[female]

Because it was stupid. I remember being kicked from my own games multiple times and I never spammed.
It was a bit ridiculously timed ... I dunno. Apparently things are hardcoded now so I don't know what that means, or how do-able just having the message not send in a certain time period instead of kicking you would work ... But it seems like a good idea to me. This idea is far preferable to being kicked IMO.

Also you know how you can't type if there aren't two people in a room, there's that little message blocker? If something like that would appear while there is a game in progress, that would be awesome.

My ideas always seem so awesome to me, they probably suck though.

[GaeMFreeK]

I'd suggest this.

No more than 3 messages per 2 seconds.

Easy to get around, so no more than 10 messages a minute if they're starting to post a little fast.

Because, there was an uber-spammer a few minutes ago...

His name was Snetwork. People joined in. My Athlon 64 crashed.

A FREAKIN' ATHLON 64 CRASHED. WE NEED TO DO SOMETHING, PEOPLE.

[Eyoshi]

There IS one solution in the works. Mods. Sometime in the future, they will be implemented into MP, so those uber spammers will get their just desserts if they do that again.

Also, a small tip is to immediatedly exit the lobby when you see that somebody is starting to spam. It will save you much grief.