increasing competition, "played you too many times" button.
Posted: Thu Aug 01, 2013 9:07 amConcise description:
Allows people to exclude others for a short term when they have played them too frequently.
Specifics/Details:It would kick in after someone has played, say 50 maps in a row or is in 10 active maps simultaneously with the same player. At that point, either player would be able to select a "temporarily exclude this player" option. This limitation would NOT apply to special holiday/special occasion maps, Tournaments or to Battles Royale (those maps would be excluded from this count). The exclusion would apply until the player has completed all active games with that player and finished 20 additional games OR has completed all active games and has begun 50 additional games OR has begun 100 additional games.
Player A has temporarily excluded Player B. Player B must wait until one of the following happens:
1. All games with player A are finished and player A has finished 20 games with other players, not including Player B
2. All games with player A are finished and player A has begun 50 games without player B.
3. Player A has begun 100 games without player B.
No one would be required to do this.. some people absolutely enjoy playing only a select group of individuals. However, this would allow people to exclude a person without making them a "foe".
More "iffy" would be allowing freemiums to limit after someone is active in all 3 of their games. I say "iffy", because 3 is not that many and, well, it would not hurt to make this more of a "premium perk".
How this will benefit the site and/or other comments:
People who like specific maps can find themselves facing the same exact opponent(s) over and over, which can get tiring for anyone. Usually, its enough to say "hey, can I play someone else for a while?", but some people may not want to do that and there are a few who just don't care. Also, anyone who has been here a while or just played a lot of games is bound to have added several people to their foe list. Mine is populated entirely by people who wound up being banned, but going through the list to edit is still a pain. I might not remember "oh, I foed so and so", unless they pm me to ask. Having an automatic expiration would eliminate that need. Also, putting someone on a "foe" list just has a different connotation than putting some one on a "hey, I need to play some other people" list.
I realize that a lot of people might argue this is just not needed, but as I noted, in some circumstances it can be. It will result in encouraging some people to play a wider variety of folks.
As another benefit, it might help stem some of the farming or "team domination" folks sometimes complain about, where one person or team dominates and pretty much excludes others from a chance to even play. Most suggestions to limit those activities have been rejected in the past because they tended to be too exclusionary and too rife for abuse themselves. I think I have proposed a decent compromise. People are not permanently foed, but can be temporarily foed.
Battles Royale, Tournaments and special maps would all be excluded for what I think are pretty obvious reasons. Those maps are too transitory to make any such limitation reasonable. This is NOT a standard "I don't ever want to play this person" list, its just a "hey, I need a break from you" list.
Allows people to exclude others for a short term when they have played them too frequently.
Specifics/Details:It would kick in after someone has played, say 50 maps in a row or is in 10 active maps simultaneously with the same player. At that point, either player would be able to select a "temporarily exclude this player" option. This limitation would NOT apply to special holiday/special occasion maps, Tournaments or to Battles Royale (those maps would be excluded from this count). The exclusion would apply until the player has completed all active games with that player and finished 20 additional games OR has completed all active games and has begun 50 additional games OR has begun 100 additional games.
Player A has temporarily excluded Player B. Player B must wait until one of the following happens:
1. All games with player A are finished and player A has finished 20 games with other players, not including Player B
2. All games with player A are finished and player A has begun 50 games without player B.
3. Player A has begun 100 games without player B.
No one would be required to do this.. some people absolutely enjoy playing only a select group of individuals. However, this would allow people to exclude a person without making them a "foe".
More "iffy" would be allowing freemiums to limit after someone is active in all 3 of their games. I say "iffy", because 3 is not that many and, well, it would not hurt to make this more of a "premium perk".
How this will benefit the site and/or other comments:
People who like specific maps can find themselves facing the same exact opponent(s) over and over, which can get tiring for anyone. Usually, its enough to say "hey, can I play someone else for a while?", but some people may not want to do that and there are a few who just don't care. Also, anyone who has been here a while or just played a lot of games is bound to have added several people to their foe list. Mine is populated entirely by people who wound up being banned, but going through the list to edit is still a pain. I might not remember "oh, I foed so and so", unless they pm me to ask. Having an automatic expiration would eliminate that need. Also, putting someone on a "foe" list just has a different connotation than putting some one on a "hey, I need to play some other people" list.
I realize that a lot of people might argue this is just not needed, but as I noted, in some circumstances it can be. It will result in encouraging some people to play a wider variety of folks.
As another benefit, it might help stem some of the farming or "team domination" folks sometimes complain about, where one person or team dominates and pretty much excludes others from a chance to even play. Most suggestions to limit those activities have been rejected in the past because they tended to be too exclusionary and too rife for abuse themselves. I think I have proposed a decent compromise. People are not permanently foed, but can be temporarily foed.
Battles Royale, Tournaments and special maps would all be excluded for what I think are pretty obvious reasons. Those maps are too transitory to make any such limitation reasonable. This is NOT a standard "I don't ever want to play this person" list, its just a "hey, I need a break from you" list.