Big Boss Man

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Mon Oct 8 2:58:20 EDT 2012

I know I floated this idea a little bit with a couple people but I thought I might put it on here to see if it seems like a possibility.

I'm proposing that it be possible for people with Preferred Player membership to be able to use their "free points" in map making. I think this would help in a couple ways. One I believe it would make people more apt to create maps that are open to the public since they wouldn't be hinged completely on monitary donations to be created essentially. Allowing for a wider variety of maps available to the public. Also it might encourage someone who has a boat load of free points saved up to get a Preferred Player account so they can spend those points on something useful.

Anyway, its just an idea that I thought might help out on a couple levels.




Cyberkilla

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Mon Oct 8 8:44:14 EDT 2012

I've been having a look at the WB code, and it might be possible to enable Free Points in the very near future.(smiley)

If anyone has any objections, it'd be nice to hear those too. I have always been concerned about some of the really old players, from round 3, who may have 10k+ free points. I'd hate to see them ruining the economy / making it unfair for everyone else.

In reality, I suppose their impact would be isolated and minor.


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Kamikaze

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Mon Oct 8 8:48:09 EDT 2012

It's like capitalism: use free points to make free points. so does that make it pointism? 

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Cyberkilla

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Mon Oct 8 8:55:41 EDT 2012

(smiley)

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Dythark

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Mon Oct 8 12:13:20 EDT 2012

Quote from Cyberkilla

I have always been concerned about some of the really old players, from round 3, who may have 10k+ free points. I'd hate to see them ruining the economy / making it unfair for everyone else.


Could you perhaps use some sort of throttle to help lessen the impact of this. For example making it so that a player could only use x amount of free points per day/week. This way it would take months for someone to use all those points. Could make it more manageable. 



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Mon Oct 8 13:57:51 EDT 2012

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I; "> have always been concerned about some of the really old players, from round 3, who may have 10k+ free points. I'd hate to see them ruining the economy / making it unfair for everyone else.


Could you perhaps use some sort of throttle to help lessen the impact of this. For example making it so that a player could only use x amount of free points per day/week. This way it would take months for someone to use all those points. Could make it more manageable. 

Free Point Usage Quota. I like that. (smiley)


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