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Apply the Level 4 Newb Restriction to Buildr
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This his been one of the few useful limitations that prevent any serious gaming of Flamebate by people without hours of free time. Why not apply it sitewide to all community-based aspects of the game such as buildr? Just a thought. |
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| Posted On: 09/21/2009 9:09AM |
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I don’t think this is a bad idea at all. It only takes a few days to get to level 4 and iirc the level restrictions don’t apply to characters on accounts that have at least one character level 4 or higher. |
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| Posted On: 09/21/2009 9:37AM |
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Good idea. |
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| Posted On: 09/21/2009 9:39AM |
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few days? I can do it on one day, have done it on several alts. And anyone who makes illegal alts to annoy the user-base already knows how to do it, so the level 4 restriction thing doesn’t really work at all. |
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| Posted On: 09/21/2009 9:40AM |
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Fie Posted:
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| Posted On: 09/21/2009 9:43AM |
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Capital Idea! |
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| Posted On: 09/21/2009 10:09AM |
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DALEK AMBbumADOR...
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ChilePepino Posted:
Instead of just bluntly disagreeing, is there any DOWNSIDE to making it level 4 restricted?
I personally don’t see any reason not too, and even if I prevents one abuse of the system it’s an improvement. Good idea. |
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| Posted On: 09/21/2009 10:09AM |
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Is there any downside? well aside from making trout code more stuff (I don’t know how much or how little it would be) I don’t see any downside, but what’s the point to it? |
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| Posted On: 09/21/2009 10:49AM |
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I agree with ChilePepino, it won’t change much if people are dedicated enough. |
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| Posted On: 09/21/2009 1:27PM |
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mterek Posted:
A lot of people aren’t that dedicated though.
iRawr aside, who gets around that level 4 restriction? And have you played long enough to remember what it was like before that restriction was in place?
You have absolutely nothing to compare it too, except your own bumumptions. |
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| Posted On: 09/21/2009 2:03PM |
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Clint Eastwood Posted:
It’s a unneeded change that ET will have to take time out of more important stuff. Seriously, people will just make illegal alts in bulk, wait a day or two then level them up to 4 and do it, it will only be a minor annoyance to them. |
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| Posted On: 09/21/2009 2:09PM |
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ChilePepino Posted:
It just raises the bar a bit, but that’s fine. |
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| Posted On: 09/21/2009 2:37PM |
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CrinkzPipe Posted:
That would give us time to preemptively catch them. |
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| Posted On: 09/21/2009 2:55PM |
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MC Banhammer Posted:
Perhaps, but I don’t see this solving many problems for the time it might take to code. But sure, if it doesn’t take more than a day or two of coding, I’d be for it. |
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| Posted On: 09/21/2009 2:57PM |
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MC Banhammer Posted:
When Forumwarz has 30,000 members, how are you to differentiate between ten or twelve illegal alts or legal characters leveling up at once at the same time? What happens if a genuine member gets caught in the cross-fire of vote fraud and gets banned mistakenly?
Until those characters start voting (i.e. it’s too late), there’s no way to tell they’re illegal alts unless the user is dumb enough to log in with the same IP using them. |
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| Posted On: 09/21/2009 4:07PM |
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mterek Posted:
You’d be surprised how many dumb users there are.
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| Posted On: 09/21/2009 4:09PM |
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| Posted On: 09/22/2009 1:31AM |
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**** Corp
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That sounds like elitism. And I don’t like elitism. Log in to see images!
Still, level 4 isn’t that hard to reach. And if you are dedicated to this game, you’ll surely reach it. I myself was interested in Buildrs and INCIT after I had finished with Episode 1, because I had nothing else left to do. That was level 10.
And I don’t know how bad Flamebate had been before the restriction was in place, either. In fact, I didn’t know such restriction exist until I read this thread. Log in to see images!
So… If it would somewhat hinder ghax style illegal alts abuse, and wouldn’t hurt a dedicated new player. Then I won’t have a problem with it. Just explain to those newbies they have to hang out a while longer and I’m sure they’ll be fine.
Oh, and let’s hope the coding wouldn’t A. be too time-consuming (Flamebate restriction code can be copied, no?) B. create side effects like other recent changes. Log in to see images! |
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| Posted On: 09/24/2009 9:17PM |
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and for anyone who claims it wouldn’t slow anyone down….
Maybe for one alt, no, but imagine trying to get 28 of them to level 4. |
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| Posted On: 09/24/2009 9:21PM |
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Shii Posted: Yeah, especially behind slow anonymous proxies.
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| Posted On: 09/24/2009 10:26PM |
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