Forum 2.0 Credit rebalance

[Legend]

@Pezus was big on topic creators getting more credits. I think I've come up with a rebalance for 2.0 that should help. Plus it's super simple to understand and manage as a poster.

1 credit per wall comment, 2 credits per post, and 3 credits per topic.

Having someone like your wall comment earns you 1 credit. A person liking your post earns you 2 credits. Someone liking your topic gives you 3 credits. A member liking your profile earns you 5 credits.

Topics give the OP bonus credits upon reaching milestones. Every 10 responses gives 2 credits, up to 500 responses.  Thus a total of 100 bonus credits can be earned from topics.

Live view posts do not earn credits.


Sounds good? Thoughts and feedback? This would get rid of pennies/partial credits. The thought process behind the 500 reply limit is that it stops mega threads from being perpetual money makers. Only 19 of our threads have passed that, and all of them are community ones.

[Dr. Pezus]

yeah, sounds great

[Xevross]

Maybe we'll find it practice that the values need to be adjusted slightly but it looks great right now

[kitler53]

considering you (legend) make over half the topics on this site i think this is just a way for the rich to get richer and the poor to get nothing..

..sounds perfect!!

[Legend]

considering you (legend) make over half the topics on this site i think this is just a way for the rich to get richer and the poor to get nothing..

..sounds perfect!!

Let it be known I only make a third of the topics.

[Legend]

Oh and credits are now dollars.

The word "credit" takes up too much valuable space on the poster info panel to the left of posts. Using a "$" sign works so much better.

[Dr. Pezus]

considering you (legend) make over half the topics on this site i think this is just a way for the rich to get richer and the poor to get nothing..

..sounds perfect!!

And the poor to get rich too. The perfect system.

[Dr. Pezus]

Oh and credits are now dollars.

The word "credit" takes up too much valuable space on the poster info panel to the left of posts. Using a "$" sign works so much better.

And also makes it look more real

[Legend]

And the poor to get rich too. The perfect system.

How about every user gets a million dollars!

[Dr. Pezus]

How about every user gets a million dollars!

That's communism!!

[Legend]

Holy fudge I just realized me and pezus are at 20k credits here!


Anyway I've changed the way interest is calculated as well. The current system too complex in nature. For each post it would append that user's "posting score" as score=10+.9*score. At the end of the day when calculating interest, this posting score was what percent of the interest was added. With one post it'd be 10% of the interest calculated, with 2 posts 19% of the interest, etc. After calculating interest the post score was reset.



The new interest system is simple and can be done in your head. Just take the first half of digits in the bank, and add them as interest. If the person has not posted that day, do not calculate interest.


Example would be 562 credits in the bank. First half is 56, so the person earns 56 credits if they posted. The cool thing about this system is that it pressures people into spending money/investing money. 900 credits in the bank produces 90 credits a day while 1,000 only produces 10. It isn't until 9,000 credits that interest is back above 90. There are basically "islands" of good and bad bank values. Moving within the island is easy but moving from one island to another is hard.

[BasilZero]

dang, I didnt know I joined the Ubisoft forums.

lol jk

[Legend]

dang, I didnt know I joined the Ubisoft forums.

lol jk

I know what you're thinking.

Yes, you CAN buy credits with real world money.

[BasilZero]

I know what you're thinking.

Yes, you CAN buy credits with real world money.

If only it was the other way !

[the-pi-guy]

If only it was the other way !

Well, if he gets really rich, maybe he'd think about it.