player rating system (similar to feedback on ebay)

wildmaiden

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: Jul 2006

Society of Aina

W/N

I have been playing this game for a long time, and like many players I have noticed that there are some very VERY fun, outgoing, helpful players, but there are also rude, selfish, scamming players who care only about themselves.

I think that some way of telling how other players in the game have been liked by past groups in the past would be helpful when forming groups to predict how they will be in the future.

A simple button next to each player in your parties name could do it. A + or thumbs up to give them a positive rating, and a - or thumbs down to give them a negative rating.

This could be kept track of and made visible to other players through titles perhaps, or another way that could not be hidden or turned off.

Pros:
  • It would encourage people to try to be more helpful and fun to play with
  • It would make the game more enjoyable to those players who are honest and good hearted because they would know in advance who other fun and helpful players are, and be able to avoid those who are rude and mean
Cons:
  • Players that end up with a negative rating may be discriminated against and have a hard time finding a group
  • Players may not necessarily deserve a negative rating they get (a "noob" for example may get a negative rating from their group just because they are new to the game).

shardfenix

shardfenix

Banned

Join Date: Dec 2005

Il Power Overwhelming Il [HaX]

What's to stop a total moron from making a group of his moron friends from giving a good player 10 bad votes? It happens on ebay and it will happen in GW if implemented.

/notsigned.

Tyggen

Tyggen

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Jul 2006

Mo/Me

You forgot the most obvious con, which in itself is reason enough not to implement this;
New guild policy! Everyone is required to give all other guildmembers good feedback and give everyone of [random other guild] bad feedback because we hate them so much.

Also
http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/s...php?t=10010852
http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/s...ad.php?t=34925

It wasn't in the index, but a quick search would've brought up those two on the first page.

DeanBB

DeanBB

Forge Runner

Join Date: Jul 2005

Arizona

Wizardry Players Guild, http://4guildwars.7.forumer.com

Too open to abuse by those same bad players you are complaining about.

Rakeman

Banned

Join Date: Oct 2006

Let me tell you a true story that happened to me once after we lost a mission:

Wammo: RAKEMAN YOU [censored] SUCK! [censored] YOU!
Me: What are you talking about?
Wammo: I DIDN'T SEE ONE [censored] MINION THE ENTIRE GAME! YOU'RE THE [censored] WORST [censored] NECRO I HAVE EVER SEEN!
Me: Oh, I'm SS.
Wammo: I DON'T CARE WHO THE [censored] YOU ARE, YOU [CENSORED] SUCK!

I really don't want players like that to have the ability to rate other's playstyles.

LicensedLuny

Badly Influenced

Join Date: Dec 2005

Buying Humps! (No kidding! Check my buy thread)

Hello Kitty Krewe [HKK] Forever!-ish

Yeah, your heart's in the right place, but I think (thanks to the above mentioned reasons of abuse) that this would quickly be, at best, meaningless and at worst, game-ruining.

lol @ Rakeman's story, though! Reminds me of, "btw which one's Pink?" too funny

Addone_Abaddon

Addone_Abaddon

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jun 2006

Jersey, Channel Islands

Perfection Is Everything [PiE]

W/

Quote:
Originally Posted by Rakeman
Wammo: RAKEMAN YOU [censored] SUCK! [censored] YOU!
Me: What are you talking about?
Wammo: I DIDN'T SEE ONE [censored] MINION THE ENTIRE GAME! YOU'RE THE [censored] WORST [censored] NECRO I HAVE EVER SEEN!
Me: Oh, I'm SS.
Wammo: I DON'T CARE WHO THE [censored] YOU ARE, YOU [CENSORED] SUCK!
HAHAHAHAHAAHA!!!!

Revan Bastille

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Nov 2006

Ebon Hawk

Blood of the Martyr [Hope]

E/Me

Quote:
Originally Posted by Rakeman
Let me tell you a true story that happened to me once after we lost a mission:

Wammo: RAKEMAN YOU [censored] SUCK! [censored] YOU!
Me: What are you talking about?
Wammo: I DIDN'T SEE ONE [censored] MINION THE ENTIRE GAME! YOU'RE THE [censored] WORST [censored] NECRO I HAVE EVER SEEN!
Me: Oh, I'm SS.
Wammo: I DON'T CARE WHO THE [censored] YOU ARE, YOU [CENSORED] SUCK!

I really don't want players like that to have the ability to rate other's playstyles.
ROFL!!


I think it's a good concept, but just way too much room for abuse though.
/notsigned

teenchi

teenchi

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: May 2005

PST

Heros of Titans Realm [HotR]

W/Mo

/not signed

Like someone else said, too many people would abuse this.

Twonaiver

Twonaiver

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: May 2006

S??o Paulo Brasil

R/

Quote:
Originally Posted by Rakeman
Let me tell you a true story that happened to me once after we lost a mission:

Wammo: RAKEMAN YOU [censored] SUCK! [censored] YOU!
Me: What are you talking about?
Wammo: I DIDN'T SEE ONE [censored] MINION THE ENTIRE GAME! YOU'RE THE [censored] WORST [censored] NECRO I HAVE EVER SEEN!
Me: Oh, I'm SS.
Wammo: I DON'T CARE WHO THE [censored] YOU ARE, YOU [CENSORED] SUCK!

I really don't want players like that to have the ability to rate other's playstyles.
LOL, i dont think ill stop laughin, but you made clear why not to have a rate system lol

Railin

Railin

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jan 2006

If you've ever played the game Maplestory you'll know why not to have this system. Every little thing that ticks someone off ends with a defame. (fame -1)

nightshade_eyes

Academy Page

Join Date: Dec 2005

Looking for Guild

Me/

I don't like the idea at all.

This feature could work out as a guild feature but as a community feature it would fail. As a guild feature, a person would only be able to rate guild members and see only the ratings of other guild members.

It could give something PvE guilds to work with.

Not A Fifty Five

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Apr 2006

Creating guild

Mo/

Quote:
Originally Posted by Rakeman
Let me tell you a true story that happened to me once after we lost a mission:

Wammo: RAKEMAN YOU [censored] SUCK! [censored] YOU!
Me: What are you talking about?
Wammo: I DIDN'T SEE ONE [censored] MINION THE ENTIRE GAME! YOU'RE THE [censored] WORST [censored] NECRO I HAVE EVER SEEN!
Me: Oh, I'm SS.
Wammo: I DON'T CARE WHO THE [censored] YOU ARE, YOU [CENSORED] SUCK!

I really don't want players like that to have the ability to rate other's playstyles.
Hah! so funny so true

Edit: I might see this happening if only positive points would be rewarded. But, as said earlier, it may end up like top 100 sites (you can only play this game if you hit the vote button 4 times!).


Or, lmao, selling favorable rating points!!!! you know it would happen!!

master_of_puppets

master_of_puppets

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Apr 2006

I dont like guilds...

Mo/E

you didnt think this through... at all....

Darcy

Darcy

Never Too Old

Join Date: Jul 2006

Rhode Island where there are no GW contests

Order of First

W/R

/notsigned

It would only work in a perfect world, which is neither RL nor GW.

Dr Strangelove

Dr Strangelove

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Dec 2005

Wasting away again in Margaritaville

[HOTR]

/notsigned

It doesn't work for ebay, and it wouldn't work for GW.

Sli Ander

Sli Ander

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jul 2006

Deep in Maguuma, by the Falls

Liberators of Agony

Mo/R

Trying to think of ways to make this work, and I have to agree with the guys above that this would be easily abuseable.

A few restrictions would help, but even the couple I can think of can be gotten around(only can give ratings to people you are currently in party with, cannot be graded until you've ascended/rof'ed etc)

While the restrictions I can think of would make it obvious who the absolute worst players are(as they have no friends/guild to boost their rating), you would still run into a ton of nasty players for the simple reason that everyone would have a good rating. Thereby nullifying the whole point of the system.

To add a system like this they would have to institute a 'farming code' just for it, to ensure that abuse is kept to a minimum.Guildies wouldn't be affected because if you group with them often, they know your skill level and not being able to boost your rating wouldn't matter much to them(as they already know you're good/bad). All in all, it sounds(to me) like too much work for the dev's when they couldn be working on something less important.

So while it would be nice, /unsigned for something I use my friends list for(if you're on the list, you're a friendly/good player)

But that's just my two cents

shifting shadows

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Dec 2006

LaZy

too easy to abuse

/nosign

Lag Hell

Lag Hell

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Aug 2005

Quote:
Originally Posted by Rakeman
Let me tell you a true story that happened to me once after we lost a mission:

Wammo: RAKEMAN YOU [censored] SUCK! [censored] YOU!
Me: What are you talking about?
Wammo: I DIDN'T SEE ONE [censored] MINION THE ENTIRE GAME! YOU'RE THE [censored] WORST [censored] NECRO I HAVE EVER SEEN!
Me: Oh, I'm SS.
Wammo: I DON'T CARE WHO THE [censored] YOU ARE, YOU [CENSORED] SUCK!

I really don't want players like that to have the ability to rate other's playstyles.
lol, epic

anyways, the idea fails
/notsigned

Razorice

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Nov 2006

Chaos Everlasting [CHEV]

Rt/A

this would only really be good for guilds, like if too many people have a problem with a guildie, like hes being vulgar to everyone BUT officers and the leader, so they dont know, all that negative feedback cant just be a coincidence... tho that also could be abused, but no where near as much as global rating, so sorry mate, good idea, bad world
/notsigned

--Razor

Faer

Faer

La-Li-Lu-Le-Lo

Join Date: Feb 2006

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