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I keep changing my opinion on this, builders will get the most rep. Builders will be back at the base doing building/repairing while knights are out in the middle of everything, who would upvote a knight in combat? and after you die you'll be like "hmmmmmmm... i know his name was either XxninjaxX or Xx00_ninja_00xX

 

All I can say is:Good luck

 

ooh ooh! i just thought; my previous mention of +1/-1 single vote per player that stays: what if your reputation was only calculated for the players that are currently online? maybe that's too much of a load for servers to track everyone who's voted everyone live... basically have your account track who you've upvoted and downvoted and have those votes apply as you log on and unapply when you log off. you'd basically have to be in control of the majority of the online population in order to exploit this. it'd still be a good idea to show your up:down ratio as well so that people who only downvote incessantly can be denied as well as very negatively voted players. you could still make it take half a point to up or down someone and if you're worried about -0.5 looking too painful for anyone to make an initial vote, you could offset it by making the initial value 5 or something.

you wouldn't be able to "run away" from your rep. but you also wouldn't be able to pad it with alts unless you run multiple copies simultaneously. and even then, you wouldn't be able to pad it very much. padded downvote cliques would only effect you while they're online and unless everyone hats you, it should be easy to recover. your rep from inactive players wouldn't linger.

 

Well couldn't other things be done from the hours this have taken and appoint a new level of Commanders or something, like updating the UI? And couldn't player administration/server admins/guards Eva better set of three than just the two? And I know you are busy so remember to tell me when you are free and as always the work you guys have done is truly amazing and the toolset you have provided is better than most massive games and the modding capabilities are up their with the Skyrim Creation Kit; it is nice to be able to change one or two things and get immediate feedback.

 

I love the idea of being able to have all/or a combination of the admin list of respected servers added to you server easily.

While I realize that the guard system will be incompatible for the large influx of players, why remove them? Can we not keep the current group or those who want to remain to idle in IRC. When pinged with !guard or w/e they could record and master server ban.
We could even organise a group of recorders within the community willing to spend time in IRC. They could do the same thing as above. When I have time I know I would be happy to partake in this.

As of right now the player rating systems seems like it will just be too hard for non-admins to actively "ban" (down-vote them till the server ban rating is reached). The vote-kick ( or map-vote for that matter but that's saved for another rant) system as it is in classic now isn't used to full effect. Adding to this in beta, where people will have to "spend" their hard earn reputation and I find it highly unlikely that anyone with give a rubber-chicken except for the specific person whose tower was greifed.

+1 for the ability to tab for names in KAG chat

 

I must say - I DONT want to spam rep to join "elite" servers. Thats not fun at all. Just not. I dont think so that being nice will give me 100 rep fast, when I play ~1h a day, and even not everyday. Some people will downvote nice people for no reason etc.

 

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What happens when a player reaches a rep so low that he can't join any servers except the ones that will be filled with low-rep people? No one will rep eachother since it will cost them and all the high rep people wont join those servers because they want to be playing all the "1337" servers. Adding rep brings in more problems then it actually fixes, especially when someone buys 11 accounts, but then again 11 accounts will cost a but-load (for everyone on the metric system thats about 1.35 ass-tons) of money, since the price of an account will probably go up to 15 or 20 dollars depending on when Geti and MM decide that christmas was 4 months ago and a christmas sale doesn't make sense anymore.

//EDIT by Furai: Cleaning.

 

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So anyways, still waiting on these sexy men photos of our beloved devs.

//EDIT by Furai: Cleaning.

 

Hmm... interesting...

(totally seperate idea)
What if people with a certain rep could only downvote people with a similar rep? like if MM joins and has 100 rep people can't be like "omfg where is 2.0 beta DOWNVOTE HIM!" and they bring him down to 60 rep. So maybe people with below 10 rep cannot downvote, people with 10-30 rep can downvote people with less then 30 rep, same with 30-50, and people above 50 rep can downvote anybody. And maybe people with less then -10 rep can only be downvoted by people above a certain rep...

 

Just leave this, no rep at all, no global thing, just admins at servers. It works EVERYWHERE.

 

Not every server has to use the reputation system.

EDIT: If reputation is a problem for new players, then it is crucial how they perceive the system. Clear In-game information about all the different server options would be very important.

 

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