Mellow Ezlo
Spoony Bard
Hey everyone!
Per the discussion in the Official Suggestions Thread, I decided to open up a discussion within this subforum so we can discuss how a system similar to the current ZD Champion/Legend system could reward members of the community who spend most of their time playing mafia games.
Here are Morbid Minish's, ExLight's, and Mapel Serup's posts on the matter.
I think what we need to discuss are what sort of rewards should we mafia players receive (and roleplayers if people active in that section desire a similar system), and how we should be rewarded. Additionally, I would like to bring back the semi-annual Mafia Awards, so we should figure out how this system would differentiate from that.
On how to reward activity, I don't think in this context it is fair to put some kind of arbitrary post requirement in place in order to receive recognition. Someone may die during Day 1 of a game and not make many posts, but still be a highly distinguished player. Similarly, someone may live until the end of a game and even win, making a certain minimum posts, without actually really contributing to the game or putting in the effort to make meaningful posts. Winning a certain number of games could work as a requirement, but one could also get unlucky and continuously wind up on a bad team, or win without putting in any effort. For this reason, I think a judging system would need to be implemented to determine who should get rewarded every month. I would be happy to do it myself, alongside Johnny if he desired.
On that note though, how would you guys feel about simply doing a "Player of the Month" kind of thing, where we all vote for the player who we think deserves recognition each month? I think most of us here are good enough to vote for players who deserve it without letting personal bias get in the way.
As for what kind of rewards we should get, I'm not sure rank banners under people's usernames are the way to go. Too many of those causes clutter. I would be less opposed to that if it was a player of the month sort of system, however. We could do userbars or badges for our signatures if anybody feels graphically inclined enough to make them, but I'm open to other ideas.
Whatever we come up with, if it involves granting official user ranks to people then Jimmu will obviously need to be involved. I wanted to discuss this within the mafia subcommunity first though just so we can brainstorm ideas. Additionally, whatever we settle on, that idea should be forwarded to the people who frequent the roleplay section so they can get a similar system going.
Please sound off your ideas below!
Per the discussion in the Official Suggestions Thread, I decided to open up a discussion within this subforum so we can discuss how a system similar to the current ZD Champion/Legend system could reward members of the community who spend most of their time playing mafia games.
Here are Morbid Minish's, ExLight's, and Mapel Serup's posts on the matter.
I think what we need to discuss are what sort of rewards should we mafia players receive (and roleplayers if people active in that section desire a similar system), and how we should be rewarded. Additionally, I would like to bring back the semi-annual Mafia Awards, so we should figure out how this system would differentiate from that.
On how to reward activity, I don't think in this context it is fair to put some kind of arbitrary post requirement in place in order to receive recognition. Someone may die during Day 1 of a game and not make many posts, but still be a highly distinguished player. Similarly, someone may live until the end of a game and even win, making a certain minimum posts, without actually really contributing to the game or putting in the effort to make meaningful posts. Winning a certain number of games could work as a requirement, but one could also get unlucky and continuously wind up on a bad team, or win without putting in any effort. For this reason, I think a judging system would need to be implemented to determine who should get rewarded every month. I would be happy to do it myself, alongside Johnny if he desired.
On that note though, how would you guys feel about simply doing a "Player of the Month" kind of thing, where we all vote for the player who we think deserves recognition each month? I think most of us here are good enough to vote for players who deserve it without letting personal bias get in the way.
As for what kind of rewards we should get, I'm not sure rank banners under people's usernames are the way to go. Too many of those causes clutter. I would be less opposed to that if it was a player of the month sort of system, however. We could do userbars or badges for our signatures if anybody feels graphically inclined enough to make them, but I'm open to other ideas.
Whatever we come up with, if it involves granting official user ranks to people then Jimmu will obviously need to be involved. I wanted to discuss this within the mafia subcommunity first though just so we can brainstorm ideas. Additionally, whatever we settle on, that idea should be forwarded to the people who frequent the roleplay section so they can get a similar system going.
Please sound off your ideas below!
