Player ratings

[Rogue]

I have an idea for something that might be interesting

What if we could rate other players?

examples of how this could be implemented are;

when a party ends everyone votes on the best party member

medals given for certain conditions met (eg, batraal defeat)

people can leave comments that others can see

maybe this will intice people into being a better and more helpfull player, since others are more likely to play with someone that has a good rating.

i dont know its anygood or not, jus thought id throw it out there.

[Arcell]

It seems like a good idea on paper but then you'd just get people downrating or writing bad comments because they just don't like them or their LS, stupid drama like that.

[Xmbei]

yep drama would be this features downfall... or friends being "funny"

[Rogue]

how about a simple thumbs up like here on the forum

[Volsung]

Nope. Not unless its only able to be positive.

People aren't as kind as you'd like to think.

We already have achievements, they just aren't visible in game. If they were I'd think that'd be something similar.

[Xmbei]

I have to say I do like your idea to a point but sadly people would abuse it so badly. It's the people we live with in this world. Heck a lot of people might like you and enjoy playing with you but just because they can and the type of person they are they would do negative comment's just because they thought it was funny, and other people wouldn't know that.

[grandm]

if some1 got bad rating they would delete there player and start again. which would mean the bad player will be in party's with newbies, if they are a bad player and ruin the game for the newbies, the newbies might think "this game is silly ppl don't work well as a team" and the newbie might stop playing. but if a bad player party's with an experienced team, the team will know this is a bad player and know how to play without the bad player ruining the game for them

hope that makes sense

[Rogue]

it doesnt have to be too in depth

i mean even if you wanted something as simple as a "thumbs up" from your party members it would help the community ethic

it would b kinda fun to collect as many thumbs up as you can... even if the number of thumbs you have doesnt really mean anything

-edit maybe you can only get a thumbs up *once* from any one player (who can also remove it) - i really think a thumbs up would mean alot in that case.

and the worst people can do is *not* give you a thumbs up.

Im sure it can be implemented in such a way that circumvents the qualms you have stated above while also adding something that is fun and ultimately helps create a better community in-game.

[Arcell]

Even if it was only positive it would turn things into a bit of a popularity contest. With how the game is now people would just get all their friends/LS to rate them positive. I'm sure some would even go so far as making tons of characters, giving themselves a thumbs up and then deleting them.

I'm not saying it's a bad idea, it's just very easily exploitable and abusable.

[yukikaze_yanagi]

yeah, no. It's so much easy to abuse, it's a pointless feature