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Re: Maintenance-free functions
| From: | streu |
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| Thread: | Maintenance-free functions |
| Forum: | Bugs |
| In reply to: | Re: Maintenance-free functions |
| Date: | Wed, 2020-06-17 16:12 GMT |
The idea of having some sort of site-wide currency to do things is not new, e.g. here. It needs some thought and some computation to balance, and I must admit I haven't done either yet. I originally even thought that the Reliability score (or something very similar) could be the currency.
Reliability scores are site-ultimate, but I meant tokens that earned each game separately.
This would mean you cannot postpone turn 10 because you haven't earned a full token yet. Therefore I'd like these to be portable between games.
On the other hand I wouldn't want people with 2000+ turns be able to dominate the non-game aspects by being able to do what they want, whenever they want. Therefore, tokens need to have a fixed limit.
The reliability score is built by similar principles, therefore the idea to use it. But it would also be possible to compute tokens using a similar formula but a separate score.
The other idea was to have some sort of voting,
Voting is a problem here, 'cause most of players ignore votings.
That's why my voting explicitly didn't include a quorum. If you don't vote, you don't care.
On a second thought, I wouldn't expect any sensible "no" vote to a game pause. What are they gonna do, pin them to their chair and have them make their turn, while the family is heading for the train? However, sometimes we get feedback like "I'm traveling as well, and would like the pause to be 3 days longer".
I am not yet convinced of using tokens to unilaterally prolong a game. Essentially this means you obligate 10 others to play for you. So, this would have to have a high price at least. Voting would solve this, too.
Yes, if I played 80 turns to make others fun, I can ask 5 turns more to get fun for myself. I think it'd be acceptable for anybody.
That's easy to say from a top place. Some are getting their ass wiped and only keep playing because quitting wouldn't be fair play.
--Stefan