Would it make it more of an interesting challenge to get the longer streaks if some (or all) of the community forums were available only on certain weeks? For example if four were “on hiatus” in any give builder period.

Then gaining E-Peens for pwning consecutive [X number] forums would take even longer.

I’m against it.

CreepPipe Posted:

Then gaining E-Peens for pwning consecutive [X number] forums would take even longer.

I’m against it.

Yeah, but it’s already gonna take longer, since they’re removing forums to balance things. I’d rather choose to have a forum in flux than lose a forum forever, wouldn’t you?

To make it work, a certain number of forums could be part of the rotating pool, with not all forumbuilr forums eligible- just the ones voted on. From that pool (which increases with time as forums are voted on to be removed), one or two forums are still playable at any given week.

The result is that most consecutive pwnage e-peens would be as easy to get as they are now… but the highest e-peens, like The Boiling Point, would be available only to those who put serious effort towards getting them. As they are now, consecutive pwnage e-peens are very easy to get, and that’s good- for most of them. But it would be cool to have the highest levels of achievement reserved for people who actually dedicated their efforts fully on consecutive pwnage.

Besides, if the forums are removed outright instead of put into a pool of rotating forums, you’ll have to wait even longer for new forums to be released to get new e-peens.

To make it clear if I was tl;dred, for it to work not all of the forums would be in rotation. When a forum gets put in the pool, you know it’s happening because you voted on it being removed. So forums couldn’t be removed by surprise, they’d be removed by public opinion.

But what forums would be coming back on any given week (for the duration of a week) would be a surprise.

CreepPipe Posted:

Example of a bad idea…

You’re going for 52 streak you’ve spent 51 visits the only forum available to give you that E-Peen has been rotated out that week.

We all know you get 4 visits a day and can stack 3 days visits. In doing so to get that E-Peen you end up losing 16 visits and (in most cases) any chances of participating in domination.

Still against it.

Many people already do that in anticipation of new forums coming out. If the inclusion of more forums than we would have normally tempts people into wasting their forum visits, that doesn’t really seem like a design problem.

That 52nd forum is going to be removed anyway, and you’d STILL have to wait a week to complete the streak, because you’ll have to wait for the next forumbuildr build. Either way, you’re waiting a week. This feature wouldn’t really change what you’re saying.

DrScience Posted:

Then let it rotate every day, and have it set to a regular schedule of rotating to get rid of the chance of ****ty luck. However, to put a little twist to it, voting would still apply; the less popular forums could be in the rotation less, thus being available less.

This would work too.

Orb Posted:

Many people already do that in anticipation of new forums coming out. If the inclusion of more forums than we would have normally tempts people into wasting their forum visits, that doesn’t really seem like a design problem.

That 52nd forum is going to be removed anyway, and you’d STILL have to wait a week to complete the streak, because you’ll have to wait for the next forumbuildr build. Either way, you’re waiting a week. This feature wouldn’t really change what you’re saying.

My point was more about wasted visits than people building up for streaks. Yes some people do this with their accounts/alts but in the end it negates from the actual game and the E-Peen are there for a reason because CZ wants people to get them.

Not waste time/money attempting to get them…well maybe money.