What is lock-down?
Lock-down mode is a simplification of Vale of Crucis to support sites which cannot or will not deal with a multi-handle environment. Sites such as Plenty of Fish and MySpace typically require the user to exist as one avatar due to the nature of the content they are peddling. As a result of the recent code changes and future plans of on the code supporting social networks, it becomes critical to feature a locked-down experience for sites who choose to be more like a MySpace; in turn becoming a lot less like the traditional Vale of Crucis site is. The best aspect of lock-down however is that the changes are entirely at code level with no database changes that could potentially slow either mode of operation. In order to enable lock-down the user simply needs to uncomment the definition of the $self->{‘DEFAULT’} variable within the Database.pm module.
Lock-down mode is a simplification of Ethereal Realms to support sites which cannot or will not deal with a multi-handle environment. Sites such as Plenty of Fish and MySpace typically require the user to exist as one avatar due to the nature of the content they are peddling. As a result of the recent code changes and future plans of on the code supporting social networks, it becomes critical to feature a locked-down experience for sites who choose to be more like a MySpace; in turn becoming a lot less like the traditional Ethereal Realms site is. The best aspect of lock-down however is that the changes are entirely at code level with no database changes that could potentially slow either mode of operation. In order to enable lock-down the user simply needs to uncomment the definition of the $self->{‘DEFAULT’} variable within the Database.pm module. This in turn will trigger all basic intelligence for the site to force the user to make use of their default handles wherever they go, all
