The two most commonly proposed reasons for INCIT being **** are dump voting and the INCIT user base. You can’t necessarily fix the user base, but you can fix the issue of dump voting.

To do this I propose INCIT be divided into two divisions. Half of the INCIT users become part of division A and the other half part of division B. INCIT is played exactly the same was as it is now with one exception: division A votes on the submissions of division B and vice versa. This way there’s no incentive to dump vote— you can’t vote yourself out of a win.

The only problem with this is that it logically it would double the minimum required submissions to play.

[ Edited because it was pointed out that there is a minimum submission requirement currently in place. ]

Fie Posted:

The two most commonly proposed reasons for INCIT being **** are dump voting and the INCIT user base. You can’t necessarily fix the user base, but you can fix the issue of dump voting.

To do this I propose INCIT be divided into two divisions. Half of the INCIT users become part of division A and the other half part of division B. INCIT is played exactly the same was as it is now with one exception: division A votes on the submissions of division B and vice versa. This way there’s no incentive to dump vote— you can’t vote yourself out of a win.

However, this system isn’t without its problems as doing this would effectively cut the number of submissions in half providing the possibility of a scenario where there is only one option to vote for, and, less obviously, making INCIT even easier to abuse when there is a small number of legitimate players. The only fix I can think of for this would be to require a minimum number of users to play INCIT, but that too is a little troublesome: not all users currently online in INCIT are playing it. A minimum number of submissions required would potentially result in a lot of wasted creative energy.

So, input?

Sounds good to me. There’s already a minimum number of submissions required for voting (5).

yeah, good idea imo. When I saw the topic i was expecting to rolleyes but now I’m nodding

upvoted

I would probably check INCIT every now and then if this suggestion was made into a reality.

thisnamehasalreadybeentaken Posted:

If you reduced the number of submissions needed for either side, to maybe 3, this would be feasible with a minimal increase to required minimum submissions.

Reducing it to 3 though would lead to a whole lot more wins and scoops being won in off hours when fewer people are playing. It might bring more people into the game and balance itself out.

It is a good idea though Fie, especially since if you see a new image for the other team you can be hit with the submissions a little more freshly which may lead to more honest reactions.

suggesting people take a look at the way Words That Follow is run. (that is, of course, if it’s still online.)

it’s the same game as INCIT only it’s been around much longer. It’s also dead 99% of the time. However, it might have slightly different voting mechanics that INCIT could learn from.

it also has kickbum music that INCIT needs to implement.

might be beneficial to incit suggestions to look at it because it was always fun to play. granted, the userbase was always the people in wahtever forum had linked to it that week.

Ricket Posted:

Just give folks some incentive to vote for a good submission, instead of a random ****ty one. Like, say, if you vote for the submission that wins, you get a chocolate scoop or something.

Which would actually encourage abuse, an easy to notice abuse, but do we want to have to keep people watching over every INCIT game and judging if the submission legitimately won all the votes or if it was a trick to get a bunch of buddies some Chocolate?

Ricket Posted:

1 vote => 1 scoop is probably too much. How about giving 1 scoop to 1 randomly selected person who voted for the winning submission?

I like that. Encourage players to not vote **** submissions, though only guys active in dominaton would care.

you could try making it a trivial amount of flezz for a reward. say, 500 – 1,000

and i also like ricket’s idea.

the reason i say trivial amount of flezz is because it might be enough of an incentive not to be an idiot, but not enough to excite people into cheating.

Words that Follow has rooms that have rounds within them. Rooms might be cool but we’d need incit police to make sure morons stay in the INCIT equivalent of RP forums.

the rounds thing is something to bring up though: make incit run rounds. 5 or 10 or 15 pictures per round, maybe when it gets quiet it drops to 5 rounds automatically i dunno.

anyway you win a scoop or two for every ROUND you win. no reward for individual posters, only full game victories. Or maybe if you sweep a round you get a bonus. Cheating is a concern but i dont know about the mechanics or mentality of those people.

add a new leaderboard maybe for rounds won, too.

dunno if that’d make it better or worse on the whole but it was a good mechanic with Words that Follow.

That wouldn’t work, since people would still want their own entries to win, and try to vote for something that has no chance to avoid wrecking themselves. Even I do it if I have a caption I really like.