Ingame registration: the discussion

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Players can only log in x times before they have to validate their email address.
Hmmm, not too sure about this one. What if a player constantly times out due to a network issue or whatnot? Could demotivate some people from sticking around.

I don't like this approach either, but mainly because of my bad experience with software only usuable for x tries. But if you would to implement it, you can easily identify if a player is timing out, or actually quiting with help of http://wiki.sa-mp.com/wiki/OnPlayerDisconnect (see Reasons).