On Rewarding Socialization In MMORPGs

Thanks to Skotos.net for their article discussing how social interaction affects gameplay in MMO titles. The piece suggests: "That the majority of MMORPGs, MUDs, and other multiplayer games ultimately support achiever players over socializers, or even killers, I think begins to outline how poorly we understand - and support - true social interactions in today's multiplayer games." It goes on to discuss freeform socialization ("We slap a chatline into a game. Then we spend as much time making it look nice"), competitive socialization ("the richest form of interaction possible in multiplayer games, yet ironically it's more often been seen as a problem than as a potential virtue"), and co-operative socialization ("One of the few games that has really tried to push this envelope is Asheron's Call with its ideas for feudal structures.")

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tsarkon reports 9 step greased yoda doll

[Anonymous Coward]

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Re:tsarkon reports 9 step greased yoda doll

[orthogonal]

[Yoda troll]

Now why can't Slashdot incorporate a Bayesian filter for common trolls? It works pretty well for email.

Surely there are not many legitimate comments that contain the tokens "Yoda", "anus", "anal", "nigger", "vagabonds", "and "regurgitates".

This ain't rocket science.

Re:tsarkon reports 9 step greased yoda doll

[Anonymous Coward]

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Re:tsarkon reports 9 step greased yoda doll

[orthogonal]

I take it you realise that your post would have been banned if such a filter were active? ;)

A funny observation, but in reality perhaps, and perhaps not. The Bayesian filter works on an accumulation of tokens; a brief quote, or even several as in my comment, will not necessarily rise to the spam threshold (which threshold of course, can be arbitrarily set).

When I first installed a Bayesian filter for my email, I tested it by sending it spam-like email (containing words like "mortgage", "lolitas", "penis", etc.) but from my own address. The email was tagged at 5% spam, well under the (SpamBayes default) 15% threshold for "suspicious", and 18 times lower than the "definitely spam" threshold of 90%. This was because the filter had been trained that anything from my own address wasn't spam.

If they want to reward socialization

[Anonymous Coward]

they should introduce the player action of anal rape, and assign points for different beasts. x2 multiplier for doubling up on a beast with a friend.

A winner is you!