Clearly even that is too much information. Limit the feedback to the results of the statistic. If I make my strength test, I'll know I'm strong enought to do that (at least once).
The aspect which I most crave is obscured player stats. If you hide the numbers, most people would stop obsessing over them.
Get rid of explicit classes. Classes should be implied by action. If you don't act your class, you become something else.
The story needs to be flexible. Certain possibilities in the game should disappear after a set period, and no one should feel bad about it. There shouldn't be a static world. Instead, you should have a room full of people working on a constantly evolving world that takes into account the actions of players.
Perhaps what we really need is a half-point system. Now just finish reading before you dismiss it. If a user has a history of good commentary, he or she receives a +1/2. Conversely, a -1/2 can be applied to trolls.
A threshold of one would then yield what it does now. A threshold of 1.5 would then yield comments from historical contributors and freshly moderated comments. A threshold of 2 would eliminate the historics.
Or the moderation totals could be tabulated separately and historic performers could be eliminated with just one more preferences check-box.
Thanks Rob, for the hard work. (/. poll waiting to happen? Did you work on Labor Day?)
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) places a ban on satellite phones, deeming them a risk to National Security. This ban remains in effect until the 43rd amendment (2011), outlawing any audio communication not routed through FBI voice-processing computers (VPCs).
21.03.2000
U.S. cryptography export regulations are tightened, limiting which countries cryptographers are allowed to visit. Banned countries include Tibet, Botswana, and the entire continent of Antarctica.
02.04.2001
President Bush Jr. (xtR)announces a "new commitment to making this country safe," and demands a four billion dollar budget for the Selective Wire-tapping Initiative Group (SWIG).
21.09.2001
SWIG begins random wire-taps under direction of the Federal Bureau of Investgation and Communication (FBIC).
13.10.2002
FBIC announces an alliance with France (a wholly owned subsidiary of Microsoft Global) with the goal of "stopping all those France people from speaking in code."
01.02.2004
The US government places a temporary ban on fiber-optic pathways. Senator Slade Gorton (xtxtxtR, WA) cites that they "pose a very real, very present, very immediate threat to national security."
30.01.2005
President Bush Jr. signs into effect legislation requiring all citizens to carry Personal Identification Cards (PICs) which state relevant information including height, weight, gender, marital status, and political affiliation.
25.05.2007
After being re-elected by a landslide vote in the first MS Vote(tm) presidential election, George Bush pushes for stronger personal information availability. Personal Informative Devices (PIDs), which must be left on at all times, broadcast the wearer's religious affiliation, sexual orientation, and Operating System. A group of renegade Linux hackers, lead by known occultist Linus Torvalds, re-preogram their devices, thus creating Personal Un-identification Devices, and a great furor over the use of their PUDs.
05.11.2008
In a show of just how stupid they really are, the American people vote George Bush Sr. (xtxtR) back into the White House.
07.04.2009
President Bush Sr. gets lost on his way to the bathroom. In a breach of policy, he is not replaced by Vice President A Mr. Potato Head Doll, but by a vat-grown clone of J.E. Hoover.
08.04.2009-03.01.2013
History not available as it poses a risk to National Security.
04.01.2013
MS George Bush 3 takes office.
07.01.2013
MS George Bush 3 collapses in the Oval Office from apparent heart-failure.
013.07.2013
The Federal Bureau (FB) places a temporary ban on eye-contact, citing a high risk to national security.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) places a ban on satellite phones, deeming them a risk to National Security. This ban remains in effect until the 43rd amendment (2011), outlawing any audio communication not routed through FBI voice-processing computers (VPCs).
21.03.2000
U.S. cryptography export regulations are tightened, limiting which countries cryptographers are allowed to visit. Banned countries include Tibet, Botswana, and the entire continent of Antarctica.
02.04.2001
President Bush Jr. (xtR)announces a "new commitment to making this country safe," and demands a four billion dollar budget for the Selective Wire-tapping Initiative Group (SWIG).
21.09.2001
SWIG begins random wire-taps under direction of the Federal Bureau of Investgation and Communication (FBIC).
13.10.2002
FBIC announces an alliance with France (a wholly owned subsidiary of Microsoft Global) with the goal of "stopping all those France people from speaking in code."
01.02.2004
The US government places a temporary ban on fiber-optic pathways. Senator Slade Gorton (xtxtxtR, WA) cites that they "pose a very real, very present, very immediate threat to national security."
30.01.2005
President Bush Jr. signs into effect legislation requiring all citizens to carry Personal Identification Cards (PICs) which state relevant information including height, weight, gender, marital status, and political affiliation.
25.05.2007
After being re-elected by a landslide vote in the first MS Vote(tm) presidential election, George Bush pushes for stronger personal information availability. Personal Informative Devices (PIDs), which must be left on at all times, broadcast the wearer's religious affiliation, sexual orientation, and Operating System. A group of renegade Linux hackers, lead by known occultist Linus Torvalds, re-preogram their devices, thus creating Personal Un-identification Devices, and a great furor over the use of their PUDs.
05.11.2008
In a show of just how stupid they really are, the American people vote George Bush Sr. (xtxtR) back into the White House.
07.04.2009
President Bush Sr. gets lost on his way to the bathroom. In a breach of policy, he is not replaced by Vice President A Mr. Potato Head Doll, but by a vat-grown clone of J.E. Hoover.
08.04.2009-03.01.2013
History not available as it poses a risk to National Security.
04.01.2013
MS George Bush 3 takes office.
07.01.2013
MS George Bush 3 collapses in the Oval Office from apparent heart-failure.
013.07.2013
The Federal Bureau (FB) places a temporary ban on eye-contact, citing a high risk to national security.
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Clearly even that is too much information. Limit the feedback to the results of the statistic. If I make my strength test, I'll know I'm strong enought to do that (at least once).
The aspect which I most crave is obscured player stats. If you hide the numbers, most people would stop obsessing over them.
Get rid of explicit classes. Classes should be implied by action. If you don't act your class, you become something else.
The story needs to be flexible. Certain possibilities in the game should disappear after a set period, and no one should feel bad about it. There shouldn't be a static world. Instead, you should have a room full of people working on a constantly evolving world that takes into account the actions of players.
Allow regions to be depopulated of monsters.
Design for characters to interact. Remember MUDs.
If it is a planet, it orbits the sun once per year. It just has longer years.
Precedent doesn't change probabilty.
You're suggesting that throwing heads twenty times in row is evidence that you can't throw tails.
Perhaps the aliens were just late to the party.
I don't want green space or communal agriculture--just no cars--like Venezia.
Non-zero sum games don't have a winner or loser.
So did the kids who each got 30 land high on the grading curve for solving this problem?
Link to a site that links to DeCSS?
Link to a site that links to DeCSS?
Link to a search results page for "DeCSS"?
Link to a photograph of a t-shirt with DeCSS on it?
Hypocrisy. It's not (suppposed to be) a form of government.
That's because you don't focus on Christian history.
Some of that Old Testament shit (right up to Cain and Able) is downright friendly.
A threshold of one would then yield what it does now. A threshold of 1.5 would then yield comments from historical contributors and freshly moderated comments. A threshold of 2 would eliminate the historics.
Or the moderation totals could be tabulated separately and historic performers could be eliminated with just one more preferences check-box.
Thanks Rob, for the hard work. (/. poll waiting to happen? Did you work on Labor Day?)
Post an article by 11/15.
Buy said article a few thousand times.
Pay off your credit card with that fat %100 royalty check you just got.
04.08.1999
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) places a ban on satellite phones, deeming them a risk to National Security. This ban remains in effect until the 43rd amendment (2011), outlawing any audio communication not routed through FBI voice-processing computers (VPCs).
21.03.2000
U.S. cryptography export regulations are tightened, limiting which countries cryptographers are allowed to visit. Banned countries include Tibet, Botswana, and the entire continent of Antarctica.
02.04.2001
President Bush Jr. (xtR)announces a "new commitment to making this country safe," and demands a four billion dollar budget for the Selective Wire-tapping Initiative Group (SWIG).
21.09.2001
SWIG begins random wire-taps under direction of the Federal Bureau of Investgation and Communication (FBIC).
13.10.2002
FBIC announces an alliance with France (a wholly owned subsidiary of Microsoft Global) with the goal of "stopping all those France people from speaking in code."
01.02.2004
The US government places a temporary ban on fiber-optic pathways. Senator Slade Gorton (xtxtxtR, WA) cites that they "pose a very real, very present, very immediate threat to national security."
30.01.2005
President Bush Jr. signs into effect legislation requiring all citizens to carry Personal Identification Cards (PICs) which state relevant information including height, weight, gender, marital status, and political affiliation.
25.05.2007
After being re-elected by a landslide vote in the first MS Vote(tm) presidential election, George Bush pushes for stronger personal information availability. Personal Informative Devices (PIDs), which must be left on at all times, broadcast the wearer's religious affiliation, sexual orientation, and Operating System. A group of renegade Linux hackers, lead by known occultist Linus Torvalds, re-preogram their devices, thus creating Personal Un-identification Devices, and a great furor over the use of their PUDs.
05.11.2008
In a show of just how stupid they really are, the American people vote George Bush Sr. (xtxtR) back into the White House.
07.04.2009
President Bush Sr. gets lost on his way to the bathroom. In a breach of policy, he is not replaced by Vice President A Mr. Potato Head Doll, but by a vat-grown clone of J.E. Hoover.
08.04.2009-03.01.2013
History not available as it poses a risk to National Security.
04.01.2013
MS George Bush 3 takes office.
07.01.2013
MS George Bush 3 collapses in the Oval Office from apparent heart-failure.
013.07.2013
The Federal Bureau (FB) places a temporary ban on eye-contact, citing a high risk to national security.
04.08.1999
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) places a ban on satellite phones, deeming them a risk to National Security. This ban remains in effect until the 43rd amendment (2011), outlawing any audio communication not routed through FBI voice-processing computers (VPCs).
21.03.2000
U.S. cryptography export regulations are tightened, limiting which countries cryptographers are allowed to visit. Banned countries include Tibet, Botswana, and the entire continent of Antarctica.
02.04.2001
President Bush Jr. (xtR)announces a "new commitment to making this country safe," and demands a four billion dollar budget for the Selective Wire-tapping Initiative Group (SWIG).
21.09.2001
SWIG begins random wire-taps under direction of the Federal Bureau of Investgation and Communication (FBIC).
13.10.2002
FBIC announces an alliance with France (a wholly owned subsidiary of Microsoft Global) with the goal of "stopping all those France people from speaking in code."
01.02.2004
The US government places a temporary ban on fiber-optic pathways. Senator Slade Gorton (xtxtxtR, WA) cites that they "pose a very real, very present, very immediate threat to national security."
30.01.2005
President Bush Jr. signs into effect legislation requiring all citizens to carry Personal Identification Cards (PICs) which state relevant information including height, weight, gender, marital status, and political affiliation.
25.05.2007
After being re-elected by a landslide vote in the first MS Vote(tm) presidential election, George Bush pushes for stronger personal information availability. Personal Informative Devices (PIDs), which must be left on at all times, broadcast the wearer's religious affiliation, sexual orientation, and Operating System. A group of renegade Linux hackers, lead by known occultist Linus Torvalds, re-preogram their devices, thus creating Personal Un-identification Devices, and a great furor over the use of their PUDs.
05.11.2008
In a show of just how stupid they really are, the American people vote George Bush Sr. (xtxtR) back into the White House.
07.04.2009
President Bush Sr. gets lost on his way to the bathroom. In a breach of policy, he is not replaced by Vice President A Mr. Potato Head Doll, but by a vat-grown clone of J.E. Hoover.
08.04.2009-03.01.2013
History not available as it poses a risk to National Security.
04.01.2013
MS George Bush 3 takes office.
07.01.2013
MS George Bush 3 collapses in the Oval Office from apparent heart-failure.
013.07.2013
The Federal Bureau (FB) places a temporary ban on eye-contact, citing a high risk to national security.