I am thinking about adding a feature for player feedback. People will be able to give a thumbs up or thumbs down rating to people. People YOU mark as thumbs up will be showed to you next to their names. Same with people you thumbs down.
But, and here's the interesting thing, you will also see a separate rating for the average rating everyone has given that person. So if you see that 10 people have thumb's downed a person, you can avoid them. If you see people have thumbs upped a person, you can choose to play with them. This is done to foster better conduct and accountability. It people are jerks, cheat, or do other bad stuff, they won't be able to do it with at least some repercussions.
Some specifics:
These rankings will be made and stored on the server, and they will be done with a player's IP address so they can't just changed their name.
You can change your feedback (from thumbs up or thumbs down) if you change your mind.
Only people who register will be able to have their markings shared. This prevents people from creating aliases to cheat the ranking system.
The rankings don't actually mean anything, but people can use it as a guide for what games they want to join.
This feature will function as both a buddy list and a community feedback aggregator.
I like this idea.. Is player registration working?
Quote from: Iceclaw on April 01, 2011, 08:32:43 PM
I like this idea.. Is player registration working?
Not yet.
Cool idea, Lackey needs this. At least I agree with it.
Just thinking numbers here, but you may want to add either a minimum number of votes before it shows or show the number of votes to get a bit of persepective.
Quote from: Fian on April 03, 2011, 01:05:40 PM
Just thinking numbers here, but you may want to add either a minimum number of votes before it shows or show the number of votes to get a bit of persepective.
That was the idea.
When you say "register" you mean here on the forum, or is there a registration process for the server? All I saw for the server was a slot to put in your name, email, etc.
Quote from: AdLit on April 06, 2011, 06:30:12 PM
When you say "register" you mean here on the forum, or is there a registration process for the server? All I saw for the server was a slot to put in your name, email, etc.
I mean purchase the premium version which includes a number of extra features. I will post more about this as soon as things are finalized. Without registering, you will still be able to make your personal settings, but only registered users will be able to share their player feedback.
Ah, OK, so there is a yet to be released version that will include additional features?
Quote from: AdLit on April 06, 2011, 07:07:56 PM
Ah, OK, so there is a yet to be released version that will include additional features?
Yes. It's actually the version you have, but things need to be enabled. I'll provide a list of the new premium only features later. As far as the player feedback feature, this needs to be done with registration otherwise people can manipulate it. I suppose people could still manipulate things if they bought multiple copies, but if they want to do that, I'm fine with it. :)
do you have any idea how much the premium lackey will cost?
and will it be a one time fee, or yearly/monthly fee?
Quote from: d3vtr0n on April 09, 2011, 04:51:41 PM
do you have any idea how much the premium lackey will cost?
and will it be a one time fee, or yearly/monthly fee?
$20, a 1 time fee.
What's the premium going to have that the free one wont?
Quote from: TheBuck on April 10, 2011, 02:58:21 PM
What's the premium going to have that the free one wont?
I will detail that later.
The privilege of knowing you're subsidising the cost of Lackey :)
Along the lines of player feedback, I think it would be good to have a "Match Stats" section. It can show the number of games a player has played for that type of plugin, as well as state if the player is Novice, Intermediate, or Expert (which I suppose would have to be based upon their own admission). Perhaps that would allow people to find matches not only with fair players, but with people who are matched for skill.
Just a thought.
-A
Quote from: AdLit on April 14, 2011, 05:28:17 PM
Along the lines of player feedback, I think it would be good to have a "Match Stats" section. It can show the number of games a player has played for that type of plugin, as well as state if the player is Novice, Intermediate, or Expert (which I suppose would have to be based upon their own admission). Perhaps that would allow people to find matches not only with fair players, but with people who are matched for skill.
Just a thought.
-A
the only problem i would see with that is there may be good players, but it seems that a lot of people(at least the people who play extended) use a certain deck. although that particular deck is good, so theyd say theyre an expert, it sucks to play against because its pretty much broke.
so the whole novice, intermediate, expert thing wouldnt be that good of a way to judge on if the match would be a fair match.
i like a good challenging match, but i like them against people who can actually build good decks.
Quote from: AdLit on April 14, 2011, 05:28:17 PM
Along the lines of player feedback, I think it would be good to have a "Match Stats" section. It can show the number of games a player has played for that type of plugin, as well as state if the player is Novice, Intermediate, or Expert (which I suppose would have to be based upon their own admission). Perhaps that would allow people to find matches not only with fair players, but with people who are matched for skill.
Just a thought.
-A
I don't know about that. I think maybe the notes section would be the simplest way to handle that, for those people who wanted to add that sort of comment.
any updates on when the premium version will be released and what it will contain? i for one am excited by it
A possible idea on the feedback system...
Of course, any real feedback system would keep information on who gives feedback on whom, and store it server-side. Like, if I gave Trevor a Thumbs-up/+Rating mark, then the server would record that this particular point came from me, but the information given to clients would only reveal the total sum. Mainly for the server to recognize that a user already gave feedback on another user, so it knows to have any additional positive/negative/neutral feedback replace the old one in there.
However, to help combat people attempting to game the system, it should also include an option to strike certain users' feedback from the record in the event they become banned, so someone who registered and started causing trouble and mayhem doesn't leave permanent scars on everyone s/he meets.
This might be asking too much, but I can't imagine a system of likes and dislikes being useful without some kind of explanation behind the ratings. If there was somewhere that people could post short reviews of players, like they do on ebay, I think this system could be much more productive and less vulnerable to abuse. This way, at least you can ignore ratings that have no reasoning behind them, and dispute ones that may be false.
Quote from: salmonofdoubt on May 13, 2011, 09:24:47 AM
This might be asking too much, but I can't imagine a system of likes and dislikes being useful without some kind of explanation behind the ratings. If there was somewhere that people could post short reviews of players, like they do on ebay, I think this system could be much more productive and less vulnerable to abuse. This way, at least you can ignore ratings that have no reasoning behind them, and dispute ones that may be false.
I don't want to have anything too complicated. Statistics get more meaningful with a larger sampling size. With 20 negative reviews and 2 positive reviews, the person is likely not someone you want play with. It's just a stat and people can read into it what they want.