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General Forums => CC General Discussion => Topic started by: Trerro on October 14, 2009, 02:28:06 am

Title: FYI, logins work... just not quite how you think
Post by: Trerro on October 14, 2009, 02:28:06 am

When you create an RA account, you're actually making 2 accounts with the same username and password. One of these is for the forums, and the other is your RA account, which currently does basically nothing, but has a ton of stuff coming in future releases (a new xp system, some kind of guild system, some tools, etc.).

Currently, although the signup script creates both accounts, they otherwise aren't linked, which means that when you log into the menu bar, all that really happens is the prompt disappears and you get a logout button. This is, understandably, confusing a lot of people.

This means that yes, logging into the menu does NOT currently log you into the forums as well.

The next release is going to have the beginnings of the RA account actually doing stuff so it's not pointless, and I'm going to try to fully link the logins, so a login on the menubar WILL doubly log you in - although that may be the release after, depending on how hard that turns out to be. (Long story short, the forum has some nice protection to prevent script-based logins (stops spammers), but it's well... blocking script-based logins, including the RA one coming from the same machine. :P I need to find a workaround to this, or failing that, I may just disable the check as I can't imagine spammers going out of their way to target us to that extent.)

The next release will be on November 1st if you're wondering.

Title: Re: FYI, logins work... just not quite how you think
Post by: Galeesa on October 15, 2009, 08:59:27 pm

so is that why when i bounce from site to site i need to log in over and over again?

Title: Re: FYI, logins work... just not quite how you think
Post by: Trerro on October 15, 2009, 11:43:45 pm

You should only have to log in twice - once on the menu, and once on the forums, and it should then hold both as long as you don't close your browser. If this isn't the case, I'll have to see what's going wrong.

Title: Re: FYI, logins work... just not quite how you think
Post by: Galeesa on October 20, 2009, 10:18:30 pm

looks like i don't have to log on each time anymore :p so either i did something wrong, or something i did something wrong (: 

Title: Re: FYI, logins work... just not quite how you think
Post by: Bearsus on October 24, 2009, 05:46:38 pm

Oh... so that's why I had to post a second (third? counting the original... :P ) intro.

Does that mean that my "other" intro can be seen in the "RA"?

Title: Re: FYI, logins work... just not quite how you think
Post by: Trerro on October 24, 2009, 10:29:55 pm

Can you tell me where you got your signup link? I DO see your first intro post, but it went to our development site, not the active one, which means you somehow made an account on the dev site.

I THOUGHT I fixed all links to point to the correct site, but I clearly missed one.

Title: Re: FYI, logins work... just not quite how you think
Post by: Bearsus on October 25, 2009, 06:00:20 am

I tried "investigating" how I first ended up registering, and posting an intro in the dev site, but I couldn't... sorry. :-[