The last whitelist update that we had was 11-15-2011 which is 11 months ago, I know that TW are busy doing what they do but is this whitelist idea really working?
Personally I like the idea of the whitelist and if it got updated once a month i'd be happy but I wouldn't want to nag TW about it so is there a better solution?
Option 1:
Abolish the whitelist as people just exploit and spam their way to level 6 anyway while getting in our way and once they hit level 6 stop playing KF.
doing this means that they can build crappy exploited maps that they can power level on and leave all us actual gamers alone.
Option 2:
Give a trusted member of the community the power to add / remove maps to the whitelist.
upside: This would allow regular updates and allow the community to remove any older maps which are easily exploitable.
downside: This option might give people an idea about how the whitelisting is done and possibly exploit any security weaknesses in KF
possible solution: the trusted member could submit a list of maps which he wants added / removed along with valid links to the maps. This would allow the comunity to update the whitelist and not take up TW's time. This would also keep the whitelisting backend secret.
option 3:
leave it as it is because we don't care about leveling up / stats tracking.
If you're already level 6 with all your classes like me then it really doesn't matter however plenty of people out there haven't got to level 6 yet and want to play on all the new maps which are coming out which arn't whitelisted.
Personally I like the idea of the whitelist and if it got updated once a month i'd be happy but I wouldn't want to nag TW about it so is there a better solution?
Option 1:
Abolish the whitelist as people just exploit and spam their way to level 6 anyway while getting in our way and once they hit level 6 stop playing KF.
doing this means that they can build crappy exploited maps that they can power level on and leave all us actual gamers alone.
Option 2:
Give a trusted member of the community the power to add / remove maps to the whitelist.
upside: This would allow regular updates and allow the community to remove any older maps which are easily exploitable.
downside: This option might give people an idea about how the whitelisting is done and possibly exploit any security weaknesses in KF
possible solution: the trusted member could submit a list of maps which he wants added / removed along with valid links to the maps. This would allow the comunity to update the whitelist and not take up TW's time. This would also keep the whitelisting backend secret.
option 3:
leave it as it is because we don't care about leveling up / stats tracking.
If you're already level 6 with all your classes like me then it really doesn't matter however plenty of people out there haven't got to level 6 yet and want to play on all the new maps which are coming out which arn't whitelisted.
Any comments on this is welcome, good or bad.