An idea we were tossing around for Gamebuilder ages ago was to limit the amount of points in total, and impose a tax. This would cause an economy to form. If people post regularly and post games, the productive members will have lots of points. If very little activity occurs, the economy crashes and the overall points among users goes way down.
Have you even been far as decided to use even go want to do look more like?
I'm not sure whether I like that. I mean what if someone submits all their games. But then they just after that, hardly ever make games because theyre just too busy, or whatever. Should they really deserve to lose their points?
Games DO take a while to make, also. So to make the tax worthwhile you'd have to only charge it after YEARS, in my opinion. And by then the site will probably have changed a lot or perhaps died anyway.
I would imagine it would be submissions in general, not just downloads, that Jacob is talking about. ie, updating projects, writing articles, reviews, etc.
Although not necessarily forum posts, too easy to spam high hell out of that unless you limit postings per day.
I like it how it is with getting a LOT of points per submission, but still getting 1 point for a post.
Its a LOT less but it still gives you recognition of your activity on the forum.
And its small enough that I cant see how spamming would be worth it. Not like any reasonable person here would want to abuse that anyway. I bump topics when I have something new to say, not because I want one stupid point.
I would hope to see something of the trophies kept though, probably just cuz I freaked out an spent all of my points on them when I saw 'Last News Post' by Rikus But if they have to be sacrificed I understand. I do fear that stuff like trophies and points limits people to the feeling of only get ahead if they've been in the community for a long time and accumulated such, which can be very intimidating sometimes
Yeah, it is a lot quiter I think it's probably because many of the older members have moved on, and that there are no massive klik projects to talk about, like there were in the day with Eternal Daughter / Chaos Gate, etc.
That's a shame... I liked the days when there were a lot of big projects going on in the open with a lot of hype. Like Jonny RPG, Mr. Stump's Dentures, and all those crazy short-term competitions.
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But if they have to be sacrificed I understand. I do fear that stuff like trophies and points limits people to the feeling of only get ahead if they've been in the community for a long time and accumulated such, which can be very intimidating sometimes
I think it's probably because many of the older members have moved on, and that there are no massive klik projects to talk about, like there were in the day with Eternal Daughter / Chaos Gate, etc.
