Notifications of Dropped Players

[Lord Diamond]

I got two notifications this turn for the UN and WI saying they had surrendered and were out of the game.

Does that mean that they dropped or were eliminated?

I think Uncle mike might be wrong on the broadcast message about dropped players.

The first UN player in our game 103 dropped and I had no idea about it, but OTHER PLAYERS did somehow.

I didn't get clued in until reading some random forum post. Point is that friends talk so there will almost always be SOME player int he game who knows that someone dropped and therefore the space is open for exploitation. If the whole world doesn't get that message then just the privileged players will benefit.

Exactly. The Game Master should send out a broadcast or at least have another player send a broadcast to the rest of the players.

Didn't you just vote in the poll on this subject NOT to have the code drop a player? We're not looking to ADD manual steps for a GM, we're looking to eliminate them. The GM doesn't provide game-specific notes that aren't in a database. That was the poll question: should the program eliminate players with no PC or no emissaries or not, and the voting was inconclusive. I tried to make that clear at least three times, including in the poll itself saying no notification is presently given. Maybe my language skills are diminishing, likely so. Was a surprise to me about the poll results, but it was Cipher's guess.
on'Anyway, we are now on to other things.

No, I didn't. You have completely misunderstood what I am talking about. I never cared about how the system determines how, or if, to drop a player from the game. I always assumed you already had a system in place for that.

When a player is no longer in the game, for whatever reason, I believe that the rest of the players in the game should be notified by the system or the GM. It's actually a simple concept. I can't imagine why it's been made to look complicated. I will start another poll that actually addresses this question.