Cassonetto Sovrano
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Posted - 2013.05.30 19:48:00 -
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Laurent Cazaderon wrote: WP based requirement to voteStill this solution has a downside as well. As soon as the WP requirement for the first election will be known, active players will raise their alt characters to that level over time, expecting to use those to vote multiple times during the first (if doable) or at least the second election. Thus, the WP requirement would need to be raised year after year to avoid people slowly building up many many alt accounts. It would work as a counter measure but hurt new players willing to invest themselves in the entire community mechanics and CPM election as in a few years the WP requirement would be way too high for them to catch up (especially if it grows every year).
I would propose a slight variation; instead of raising the required total WP each year, how about we go by WP earned in the last year? It requires the player to be active, weeds out anybody who just started playing, but doesn't create the long term issues of just raising the cap. |
Cassonetto Sovrano
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Posted - 2013.05.31 21:04:00 -
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Laurent Cazaderon wrote:
Good suggestion dude.
I guess it could be done by CCP as a back-end information. Or perhaps add a statistic "this year WP" in the char screen. Would indeed kill one of the issues.
Yet, one problem remains : How do you get new motivated players to reach that WP requirement ? And still make it discouraging enough to avoid people farming a lot of voting accounts ?
I guess we would need to see average WP earned per month to discuss a number as it's quite difficult without hard data.
No need to reinvent the wheel. CCP dumps the players names and their total WP into a spreadsheet at the time of the election. The next year, they collect the data again, but subtract the WP that existed for each player from the year before. All that's left will be the WP earned since the data was last collected.
As far as what the benchmark should actually be, I would suggest CCP determine the average total WP of all players, then cut that number in half. For future elections that value should be based on WP earned in the last year, not overall total. I think that should be a high enough hurdle to keep out spammers and rookies. However, I don't think that should be the only requirement.
One vote per PSN ID is a no brainer, and if CCP can make it 1 vote per PS3, I would be in favor of that as well; I know it could be an issue for a few people, but the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few, and most of us won't be sharing a PS3 with another Dust player. Also, for reasons others have mentioned, I am completely opposed to using credit card info as identification. I don't like basing it off of Aurrum either, but it doesn't make my skin crawl as much as giving up my card info. |