RSW version 1.0.3: online voting
Posted: Fri Dec 10, 2010 10:44 am
The biggest change with this release is the integration with an online game index's voting system, as first discussed back in this thread. For the moment, I'm linking the votes to topwebgames.com; I might experiment with different indexes later (but I don't want to link to more than one of them at a time--I think making my users click through one game index's voting page is onerous enough; I don't want to make people have to go through this for multiple different indexes).
This is all entirely experimental. I don't know whether it will really help bring more people to RSW or not, but I figure it's worth a try. If it turns out to be more trouble than it's worth, I'll take it out again.
To further increase the incentive for players to vote, you get a modest score bonus. Take note of your new "RSW vote score"; it's a value between 0.000 and 1.000, which represents how consistently you've voted over the past two weeks. If you come in to vote every day, your score will gradually climb to 1.000 and stay there. Each turn, in each of your games (except those configured to disable this), you will earn 10 points * your vote score, so if your vote score is 0.800 when the turn rolls over, for instance, you will earn 8 bonus points that turn. I figure this will result in a maximum of about 250 points or so added to any one player's score by the end of the game, which is enough to be meaningful, but not enough to completely unbalance the game.
This will be effective for future games only (currently-running games are configured to ignore the vote bonus).
Please let me know if you find this obnoxious, or if you think it is helpful! Your opinions matter to me.
David
This is all entirely experimental. I don't know whether it will really help bring more people to RSW or not, but I figure it's worth a try. If it turns out to be more trouble than it's worth, I'll take it out again.
To further increase the incentive for players to vote, you get a modest score bonus. Take note of your new "RSW vote score"; it's a value between 0.000 and 1.000, which represents how consistently you've voted over the past two weeks. If you come in to vote every day, your score will gradually climb to 1.000 and stay there. Each turn, in each of your games (except those configured to disable this), you will earn 10 points * your vote score, so if your vote score is 0.800 when the turn rolls over, for instance, you will earn 8 bonus points that turn. I figure this will result in a maximum of about 250 points or so added to any one player's score by the end of the game, which is enough to be meaningful, but not enough to completely unbalance the game.
This will be effective for future games only (currently-running games are configured to ignore the vote bonus).
Please let me know if you find this obnoxious, or if you think it is helpful! Your opinions matter to me.
David