scully Posted:

It is not a matter of broken or trying to repress those who enjoy buildr, it is a matter of game balance and looking responsibly at the potential for use and/or abuse. You argue that limiting scoops to the first 14 submissions is horribly restrictive and the next thing you say that your first 10 submissions are much better than your last 10. Well? Doesn’t that imply that you are in fact just throwing those last 10 things up purely for the scoop potential? If not, is there a reason you purposely submitting sub par stuff?

Because obviously some of the later submissions still ARE good, or else I wouldn’t bother submitting them. There’s a big difference between having difficulty being as funny/creative after 30 submissions and being 100% FORCED to be as GOOD AS POSSIBLE during your “allowed” 14.

Buildr is stifled and unfunny enough as it is.

And to your claims that plk and Bashy don’t win because of klan conflicts, then what’s the point of bringing chocolate up?

If no one is currently abusing the chocolates to a point of having medals made easy, then why bother enacting all these drastic changes?

The fact is that the current amount of chocolates for ForumBuildr at least are not enough to warrant remotely the kind of benefit that vanilla or pistachio does, and until those two are addressed chocolate should be left alone.

If anything should be done to fix choco it would be on limiting Itembuildr. As it stands, whoever ends up winning Image or Idea typically has quite a few hours when theirs is the only submission up, allowing them to receive MbumIVE upvotes that don’t accomplish anything.

I think if it gets down to one submission the voting should be frozen so no more people can add to that persons scoop total.

And before you accuse me of more vested interests, I DO play Itembuildr, and I DO get quite a few scoops from it.