Yes this would make the game a lot less PGA infested and more competetive, i would support this. Half the game i play now are either with PGAs at the table, or paranoid people accusing PGAs

This would do away with both

No chat completely changes the dynamic of the game and as a consequence makes the game less interesting. Keep chat and this is fine.

I will state this.... No change in game play will stop the cheating. No Chat... People will use IM.. Not showing peoples names... see no chat. The simple game is not compelling enough to keep peoples interest. Sorry to be the downer but the social aspect is what holds this community together both the good and bad aspects of it.

Implementing the proposed changes without blocking in-game chat doesn't work, since chatting enables player identification.

I'm also totally fine with keeping the existing system, as many people are looking for exactly that.

Look, for example, at a typically 5K table game. These are basically 80% chat games. The game board basically just serves two functions: an initial random seed and to execute and log decisions from the chat's progression. That's also intellectually challenging and often very fast paced, but a wholly different game, and not everyone is looking for such a thing.

I'm basically here because I beat Dicewars 9/10 times and look for better opposition. But at the higher tables I basically meet people playing a totally different social game.

I see Dicewars/Kdice at the same ranks as Go and Chess, probably even harder to beat by brute force than the latter. And I love the kind of dynamic ever changing situations and how they stipulate your brain. And it would be nice to get just that. I'm even thinking about implementing it myself with a quick App Engine sketch, if it can't find much support here.

Of course, the proposed anonymous system could still be cheated with personal messaging, but it would have a significantly higher barrier to entry. The same is possible with Poker or Chess, but 90% of the time, when you meet a 2700 ELO player, you meet a great mind. In KDice that's also possible, but atm there is also a large possibility just meet a great crook and I would just like to have a mode where that'd be different.

Btw, with an actually working ranking system one could also completely randomize the process of sitting in: random maps with random, rank matching opponents. You'd need a quite large group of IM players to cheat that.

scores are worthless without the social aspect of the game imo. and by that I mean that the reason people want a score is bragging rights and getting respect, you cannot have that without the social aspects of the game

It's probably senseless to post here anyway. If there were two parties, those in favor and bothered by Kdice's social aspects, the latter would probably not bother to read the forum.

im love that idea since 3 years. would be a cool addition to the game. too bad it wont happen...

why dont we start a collection for kakk to program it? im sure he could easily be able to cover up the avatars and screennames of each player. not sure about the rollbox and chatbox tho.... someone ask him if he thinks its possible or not.

monte, but why would anyone handicap themselves?