> On my old, circa 2005 systems, writing out a ~1.5 GB core file probabaly 
> takes about 30-120 seconds to complete (I never actually timed it, but it 
> certainly takes long enough to notice), by which time upon rejoining the 
> game most people have already left.  By doing:
> 
>       % rm game.core
>       % touch game.core
>       % chflags uchg game.core

You don't need the chflags feature to cope with that specific malady:

ksh% (ulimit -c 0 && game)

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