The authentication panel
First of all, you must authenticate yourself.
Hey, what the heck... ββ
SoL is a client/server application, that is, there are two components. On one side there is the client, an application running within any modern graphical web browser such as Firefox; this application talks with a server, the other side, that effectively manages the database, and implements the so called business logic.
The two components talks to each other thru a connection, that can be either a local one, where both side actually run on a single machine, as two different programs that run in parallel, or a network connection, where there are two (or more) computers involved, either on a LAN or even thru Internet.
This allows three scenarios:
So, back to the question: yes, it may be a little annoying to enter your credentials, but it’s an honest price to pay for these capabilities.
Any registered player may be allowed to login, simply assigning him a nickname and a password.