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Exploring location-based fun
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Colliding usernames #24

Open timhutton opened 7 years ago

timhutton commented 7 years ago

If two users have the same username their location will alternate between them, giving a bad game experience.

rawles commented 7 years ago

If the bounding box in /get/location is too large and not feasible, it might mean that this is happening.

timhutton commented 7 years ago

Issue of colliding usernames is only a problem for those games that require a username - see #26

timhutton commented 7 years ago

Perhaps as a part solution to this we simply dissuade them from specifying a username. With either the random string or the name server, there is only a small chance of a collision.