Legacy Permissions

[legionaire]

Ok took me a while to figure out the permissions thing in the ACP but I think I have it nailed down now

View - is probably something you would use for guests as all they can do is view the games

Play - Allows the user to play games but not post a score

Record - not quite sure what this does yet

Score - user can play and post scores

Could you add a breakdown for each level of play so that when administrators are setting permissions they can easily see which permissions to set for their user groups ?

 

[Trekkan]

There's exactly what you're asked for already.

When you edit a usergroup, check the description text under the "default".

I agree though that Record and Score are a little obscure from each other.

But Record, means, keep track of the gameplay stats for the game, NOT the user. So how long it's been played, number of plays, whatever is tracked.

Score, is the users scores are saved as well as includes what "record" does. At least as far as I can tell, I'm sure DW will be around to correct anything though. =)

 

[Darkwaltz4]

Trekkan's got it right.
There are 5 possible levels of access, which I hoped made sense in my description...
Each one builds on the previous one, starting with...

None: no access at all. if they try to access the game, they get a no permission error.
View: users can go check out the game page where the tabs for scores, discussion, and stats are on the side, but unable to start the game up.
Play: users can run and play the game, but the forum basically ignores them doing this entirely
Record: when the user is done playing, the forum counts their time in the forum stats - score is ignored
Score: the forum records their score and they are eligible for trophies and such [some mochi games dont report the score]

This allows you to set up fun things like...
allowing guests to play in your arcade, but ignoring the stats and scoring (so they get Play) - although it will let you keep score under Guest!
only letting users View until they get a certain amount of posts, upon which they can Score, but if they play too much, its just down to Record

The permissions system lets you also do things like set a usergroup standard, a game standard, usergroup+game, or general (which is the one you cant delete).
Thanks to trekkan's suggestions, if you get None when theres requirements to meet for View or better, you get an error explaining what you are missing. If you get None on the general permission, there is an arcade closed phrase that gets used. The other two arcades each did two different halves of this kind of thing in many places at once, so this combines them all into one place where you would most likely use it (unless you want to go back to editing an individual game every time )

Now, the permission system actually does not filter out anything on the arcade portal due to it being too much of a strain to check the big stack of permissions for every game it tries to show (because tales of users with thousands of games is common), but the category system can help you with that and thats coming up next.