Problem with High scores

[Thoronador]

Originally posted by Nathaluth Sumaza

Originally posted by Karyuu
I do hope you dueled in-character, and explained it in-game in better terms

Ehm, somewhat embarrising to admit, but no... You see that little point increasement was completely out of character. Normally I hardly ever fight duals (never say never ). There\'s not much point for a scientist to be dualling, now is there? ^^

Well, so why did you duell then? Just to get on the list? If so, shame over you.

Anyways many people (like me, for example) don\'t even care about those lists, and those who do shouldn\'t do either. The (IMHO) only useful purpose of this page is to see who is online at the moment. Not more.

[noXide]

Ok I thought I\'d add my thoughts to this matter...

The Dual Point list is utterly pointless and can easily be manipulated. I for one think it promotes OOC dueling and powerlvlin just so some can have their name up there.

IMO the list should removed... or better yet DP until it has some purpose other than to show/brag how many newbs heads you\'ve bashed in.

Thus my three names will remain there

Originally posted by Suno_Regin
Those characters need deleted, seriously. >_>

*shrugs* you can make it your goal to have your name upon that list... But keep in mind - it\'ll be knocked off far quicker than you got it there

[acheronista]

Duel points only incourage actions that are done out of character....in other words ppl do things because of duel points...and that is not RP PERIOD

[Nathaluth Sumaza]

Originally posted by Thoronador
Well, so why did you duell then? Just to get on the list? If so, shame over you.

Anyways many people (like me, for example) don\'t even care about those lists, and those who do shouldn\'t do either. The (IMHO) only useful purpose of this page is to see who is online at the moment. Not more.

Well, yeah... Hence the \"embarrising\" part... Shame and embarrisment go allong quite well, should you not know... (There wasn\'t any actual dualling though.... And it was all completely out of character).
The \"plan\", which quite frankly cannot be called well-thought-out I admit, went somewhat wrong, those points I have at the moment should have already been long gone.

Further more as I clearly stated, those lists don\'t mean a thing to be either, that, however doesn\'t mean one can\'t have a little fun with them... Didn\'t see the harm of doing it at the time, simply because these list can be so easily manipulated that I didn\'t see that any one would hold any value to them.
Seeing that this, for some, does not seem to be the case, I\'ll be off that list in no time from now at all, and my sincere appologies to those who do care about that list.

[Drey]

it would be interesting to see what happened if both dp and ap were removed...

Suno_Regin: this if for you

[BlackAcre]

vaguely related, but I wish lists like these would get reset every year or something, so new people might have a chance in hell.  Every game I\'ve played that\'s had stats like these are always these ridiculous high scores that someone managed through some exploit or weakness in the game that have been fixed/nerfed by the time I arrived--making it essentially impossible to beat.

[Drey]

Originally posted by BlackAcre
vaguely related, but I wish lists like these would get reset every year or something, so new people might have a chance in hell.  Every game I\'ve played that\'s had stats like these are always these ridiculous high scores that someone managed through some exploit or weakness in the game that have been fixed/nerfed by the time I arrived--making it essentially impossible to beat.

i managed to make it onto the advisor list pre wipe about 7 months after the CB version was released, i joined around 3 months after its release.

[BlackAcre]

Results may vary!

[Nathaluth Sumaza]

Well, for those who care about that list, my Dual Points have been brought down to 0 ; -0,02 to be precise. So I should be of that list the next time it\'s updated.

[acraig]

Originally posted by BlackAcre
vaguely related, but I wish lists like these would get reset every year or something, so new people might have a chance in hell.  Every game I\'ve played that\'s had stats like these are always these ridiculous high scores that someone managed through some exploit or weakness in the game that have been fixed/nerfed by the time I arrived--making it essentially impossible to beat.

QFT.    I remember playing Runescape and thinking it\'s freaking impossible to get on their top 10 lists.  However, I think that this is not what I want PS to be.  If there is a top list I want it based on community respect and achievement rather than killing that rat over and over again or dueling everybody under the sun.   Unfortuantly, at the moment we are a very technical team at the moment and we are constantly working on making our core structure work and work well.  

So it may not seem like there is a lot going on in the game but if you see from my point of view there is constant progress and improvement.  I fully understand that players need more stuff to keep their interest and believe me, that stuff will come.  But before we can add all the cool stuff we have to focus on stuff that nobody really sees.   So we are trying to add simple things ( like the crystal hunt/duel points ) that give players things to do.   Now that those have appear to have run it\'s course we will try to think of some things we can add that will keep players interest.

[Vjorin]

Originally posted by acraig

Originally posted by BlackAcre
vaguely related, but I wish lists like these would get reset every year or something, so new people might have a chance in hell.  Every game I\'ve played that\'s had stats like these are always these ridiculous high scores that someone managed through some exploit or weakness in the game that have been fixed/nerfed by the time I arrived--making it essentially impossible to beat.

QFT.    I remember playing Runescape and thinking it\'s freaking impossible to get on their top 10 lists.  However, I think that this is not what I want PS to be.  If there is a top list I want it based on community respect and achievement rather than killing that rat over and over again or dueling everybody under the sun.   Unfortuantly, at the moment we are a very technical team at the moment and we are constantly working on making our core structure work and work well.  

So it may not seem like there is a lot going on in the game but if you see from my point of view there is constant progress and improvement.  I fully understand that players need more stuff to keep their interest and believe me, that stuff will come.  But before we can add all the cool stuff we have to focus on stuff that nobody really sees.   So we are trying to add simple things ( like the crystal hunt/duel points ) that give players things to do.   Now that those have appear to have run it\'s course we will try to think of some things we can add that will keep players interest.

I can totally respect that.

[r.guppy]

Originally posted by BlackAcre
vaguely related, but I wish lists like these would get reset every year or something, so new people might have a chance in hell. Every game I\'ve played that\'s had stats like these are always these ridiculous high scores that someone managed through some exploit or weakness in the game that have been fixed/nerfed by the time I arrived--making it essentially impossible to beat.

 Every wipe they do get reset. about a month ago i was at top of AP  list with 1800 or so, i deleted my carictor and started again, in three weeks i am  back on list for Advising.

 I strongly resent the implied \"ridiculous high scores that someone managed through some exploit or weakness\"  i do not cheat in anyway to get my points or deliberately grab questions to get the point. I do it to help bad spelling and all. MY NAME IN GAME IS JANNER. and my aim in game is to help were i can.

[zanzibar]

Ok.  Let\'s say 50 people cheat their way to the top of the score table.



What freaking difference does it make?

[r.guppy]

By zanzibar
Ok. Let\'s say 50 people cheat their way to the top of the score table.

 Duh only room for 5.

By zanzibar
What freaking difference does it make?

 So you condone cheating.

[Nathaluth Sumaza]

Personnally I think there\'s a difference between \"not caring\" and \"condoning\". When it comes to this subject I chose the former.