So, after editing the wiki, I started to think about it… wow, once we get 100 forums (God knows when we will reach such mark), we will take almost an entire month of using visits every day to get that E-Peen!

So, long short question: Will we receive more visits per rollover once Episode 2 is released? Or would that be to gamebreaking overall? (I imagine the impact that will have on every single forum-related leaderboard, and Domination)

Fran edited this message on 08/14/2008 6:48AM

you are totally approaching the problem from the wrong direction

four visits a day is alright, more than that would be too time consuming for casual gameplay

the problem is that we don’t need any more of these consecutive pwning epeens

they are boring, they inflate the epeen counter with little effort and they continue to increase indefinitely unless we put a stop somewhere

I think the stack limit of 12 is too small. 20 would be better.

zigzagoon Posted:

would it be better?

Ur visits won’t go waste when ur on vacation.

And u can get a lot of vanilla even when solo.

quangntenemy Posted:

Ur visits won’t go waste when ur on vacation.

And u can get a lot of vanilla even when solo.

the solo vanilla is a weak argument to me ‘cause klan raiders would also benefit from such a change, and i think the vanilla rewards for both activities are high enough as they are

and i think that it shouldn’t be the optimal strategy to not play for a week and then burn everything in a single day, that doesn’t feel right at all

if you go on vacation, too bad, but forum visits aren’t your god-given right and if you don’t play for over 3 days i don’t think you deserve them anyhow

zigzagoon Posted:

they are boring, they inflate the epeen counter with little effort and they continue to increase indefinitely unless we put a stop somewhere

I think that the 100 mark is a pretty good stop for now.

Also there are no plans to increase the number of daily visits at this time.

Fran Posted:

I’d say Domination E-Peens inflate the counter much more then Streak E-Peens. You get a new streak every month. You can get a new Domination E-Peen every week.

haha, well, if you’re getting a new domination e-peen every week i say that you’re playing the game very well and are entitled to such rewards Log in to see images!

but in retrospect though, i think that these epeen milestones should have been placed exponentially instead of just one for each increment of 4, it would make them much less likely to grow out of control if you for example had to double your medals/pwning count for every new epeen

and before people lynch me for suggesting to make it harder to obtain epeen, remember that everyone’s playing on the same terms and the status of epeen is relative to other players, so it’s pretty pointless to hand out 25 easy epeen to every player Log in to see images!

this is the wrong thread to say it but id like to see the 3 lemons back the way it was for speedruns..its much too fast now for reg mouseclickers like me even with a camho

Amasius Posted:

I wouldn’t mind if there’s only one e-peen for medals and one for consecutive pwning: instead of getting another e-peen the new one would displace the old one.

I think that is a fantastic idea. There’s really no point in having a possible 25 e-peen EACH for medals and streaks. Put those two together and it’s (I think) more than the total amount that are currently available. Get the bragging rights without stupidly inflating the peen count.

Only one E-Peen may be a bit extreme… How about Zigzaggoon’s idea for higher increases than just four? Right now E-Peen collectors have to spend eleven days’ worth of visits every month to collect the latest: when Episode 2 comes out, players will have to spend over half their visits on what comes down to a bookkeeping activity to get their monthly E-Peen. If we increase the increment to eight, we slash the bookkeeping/”free” visits ratio by half. So next peen would still be at 48, but the one after that at 56 and not 52. Increments can be increased further to tweak the aforementioned ratio to a point CZ thinks is ideal.