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Contest 8 - Keeping Players Muted (Ended)
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Scott (Admin) RJ: Ratan Joyce CO: Ratan Joyce Post Rating: 0 + / - Total Posts: 1175 Karma: 5083 Joined: Jan 13, 2012 |
Posted on Apr 2, 2012 (Last edited on Apr 7, 2012) Contest ended, winners are listed, please note the influence awards DO NOT reflect how much I enjoyed reading your ideas. Hold onto your badges, they may be converted to actual collectibles once the system is implemented.Top 3 Winners: Democratic Logician Award: Sourpuss (+1000 influence, Badge of Wisdom Q150) Rip (+800 influence, Badge of Wisdom Q130) Zxektok (+501 influence, Badge of Wisdom Q120) Other Participants: Socialist Bureaucrat Award: Benjamin Baruch Cohen IV (+500 influence) Optimistic Executive Award: Kudaros (+500 influence) Chandler (+500 influence) Clown of Econosia Award: Arigon (+300 influence) Randy Sweetcakes (+300 influence) Moviegoer Award: Silvertear (+200 influence) ----------------------------------- ORIGINAL CONTEST: Description: You guys (and gals) are awesome, but at times we get people saying they want to be the Supreme Overlord of the Universe (that title belonged to me!), or want to introduce Vampires and Werewolves into Econosia. (such heresy!) My problem is: How do I keep them muted for a few minutes without using "major Godly powers" such as silencing? "Minor Godly powers" are acceptable - such as turning their Q0 apples into Q50 water. Creative solutions are even better. Up to 3 winner will be selected and each will receive 1000 influence points + a Badge of Wisdom (with a high Q) Deadline: Sat., April 7, 6:00 P.M. |
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Kudaros Cornercutter RJ: Kudaros Post Rating: 1 + / - Total Posts: 17 Karma: 19 Joined: Mar 30, 2012 |
Posted on Apr 3, 2012 Put the offender in control of a company (and just this company, temporarily) whose networth is exactly 1 dollar.This is essentially a lockout, but scary. |
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Chandler Hill RJ: Chandler CO: Chandler Post Rating: 0 + / - Total Posts: 54 Karma: 113 Joined: Mar 25, 2012 |
Posted on Apr 3, 2012 (Last edited on Apr 3, 2012) Arbitrarily change B2B prices of items to below export very occasionally so people are constantly checking B2B and Export prices in an attempt to make a profit.Or write a really long news post so they're busy reading instead of talking about Bad Ideas |
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Richard Ripberger RJ: Rip CO: Rip Post Rating: -1 + / - Total Posts: 153 Karma: 78 Joined: Mar 28, 2012 |
Posted on Apr 3, 2012 You are a programmer aren't you? Write some code to fix it!:) Seriously what would be cool if for people to be able to vote or flag someone they feel has went over the edge. If a certain number of people flag you you get a period of time that chat is disabled. Along with a nice popup of course letting the person know that HR has had some complaints about the water cooler behavior and that it should be avoided. Maybe if it happens to often to the same person they get longer suspensions of chat functionality. |
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Aleksandr Bismarck RJ: Randy Sweetcakes Post Rating: 3 + / - Total Posts: 7 Karma: 47 Joined: Mar 28, 2012 |
Posted on Apr 4, 2012 Give them a free superstore and a 500 of every product it sells.Navigating the selling UI will keep them quiet for about an hour. |
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Maverick khan RJ: Arigon CO: Arigon Post Rating: 0 + / - Total Posts: 20 Karma: 48 Joined: Mar 7, 2012 |
Posted on Apr 5, 2012 Shut down the server for 1 hour. everyone will be absolutely muted.
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zxektok megatron RJ: zxektok Post Rating: -1 + / - Total Posts: 140 Karma: 170 Joined: Mar 6, 2012 |
Posted on Apr 5, 2012 (Last edited on Apr 5, 2012) I think Introduce the karma system in game too and combine them. Karma Peacekeeping Idea below when looking at a players page there can be a button for report abuse and a button for being really helpful. (thumbs up icon - thumbs down)((or something like)) each player ON ANYONE can only press 1 dislike or like every 24 hours/daily server reset everytime you get disliked (voted down) you lose 1 karma If 3 players or more vote you down in the same day - that player loses 20 karma At less than 20 karma when you try and load the chat box is says "unfortunately bad people cannot mix with the rest of society - be nicer" they could be locked out of chat for a set amount of time - 30mins/1hour/1day = your choice Players can get 1 karma daily or gain more by being useful and pleasant on the forums. Thus you have a player regulated report abuse/shutup system and a bonus for being nice. One day you could even trade in karma for a prize for being so nice or helpful. It doesnt have to be the same as the forums but it would fit nicely with the theme of togetherness and cooperation i think you are going for in this game. |
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Benjamin Cohen RJ: Benjamin Baruch Cohen IV CO: Barun Cohen Post Rating: 33 + / - Total Posts: 18 Karma: 57 Joined: Mar 30, 2012 |
Posted on Apr 5, 2012 zxektok, your idea is okay but it's totally abusable by groups for nefarious purposes. A karma system would be terrible and would result in bigger companies effectively muting smaller companies because they, the bigger companies, have more karma. I'd suggest a brief cooldown as the company registers are being searched by the tax office and the player recieves a fine based on x% of the players personal wealth for tax evasion. So effectively you'll have a player that can't do anything ingame (for 5 minutes, an hour or a day) because 'tax office agents are checking the ledgers' and afterwards they get a fine for tax evasion or other discrepancies that were found in the books. It effectively simulates a real situation (tax control, which happens IRL) and mutes the player for a certain period and gives him/her a slap on the wrist. |
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georges nolan RJ: Silvertear Post Rating: 2 + / - Total Posts: 23 Karma: 25 Joined: Mar 31, 2012 |
Posted on Apr 6, 2012 Use a time-lottery system whereby for every minute a person is silent, they get a ticket placed into a lottery where other silent people are playing. Every time you speak you get one ticket taken out of the lottery, so the longer you are silent, the more chance you have of winning the lottery. The prize for the lottery which would be given out every Saturday would be the chance of having a tab under the http://www.ratjoy.com/eos/index.php where they would be able to spam and chat and talk nonsense to themselves as much as they like. This would last one hour, and even though that hour would be fairly irritating - at least they were quiet for a whole week. |
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Dan Laurence RJ: Sourpuss CO: Sourpuss Post Rating: 1 + / - Total Posts: 49 Karma: 15 Joined: Mar 27, 2012 |
Posted on Apr 7, 2012 I don't think the point of this is to use the chat less, but to increase the quality of the chat. For public company owners, you could put in a slight "panic" variable that would (slightly!) negatively affect the price of companies they own. No one likes seeing their stock price go down even a few cents. For private owners, perhaps a percentage increase in their loan interest rate for the next tick. |
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