Jos Elkink wrote:Nice list. I have always wondered whether Cantr would improve if we would add a rating system in the game along those lines ... that every player can rate other's characters on such items and we get weekly / annual / etc. highscores ... But perhaps that would steer game play too much in particular directions without leaving it entirely open-ended ... The GAC never liked the idea
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I'd love to see such a thing implemented. Usually people post stuff like that in the RP Praise topic, but it'd mean revealing that you're the one playing that character. (Especially if it's one of those "We sit inside all the time, chatting and having fun"-kind of towns that I happen to end up in quite often, with very little people.)
Voting for them would give them a notice on a special page, so they could see what characters are appreciated for their good, funny or scary roleplaying without having to reveal that you're the player.
I personally dislike revealing myself as the player of some of my characters, as that could easily interfere with my own and others' decisions.
And Seko, obviously this shouldn't be for stuff you heard on the forum. It's better if it's about characters that were recently active to have deserved their vote. Else there'd be Adam Brinks or Nick Wolf MacGregor for scariest character. There should be a notice making it clear that it's about things you have witnessed as the player of your character.
No matter how many times people repeat how scary Nick is, you'll have to see him in action to feel it yourself. (At least, that's what it is like for me. I can't imagine myself in others their situations easily without knowing about their full background, personality, relationships etc etc...)
I would love to see different language groups too. Obviously it would be very confusing if there'd be Polish names through the English ones. So for each language group a new list of characters. I notice myself that the Dutch region usually allow much more character development than the English region. Probably because it's smaller and everyone's help is needed.
Perhaps the topics for nomination/voting/rating could be different for each language group. With a few basic ones in every group of course.
As for cheating... I doubt players would get their char on the list using tricks such as "You vote me, I vote you", most of the players are mature enough not to do such childish things.
And last.. Wether it would improve Cantr or not - it certainly would.
Currently we have tons of topics for "Peaceful", "Best RPd", "Most annoying" etc. characters. And they're often filled with lots of pages making it hard to get one absolute "winner" in that category.
That combined with the fact that not even all players have a forum account (some do check the forums without an account though) makes it easier for those to know what characters are doing well according to the other players. Especially if it's one of YOUR characters, it would certainly encourage to continue playing that one character to the best of your abilities. Or if it's a character you, as a player, saw, and you notice others like that character as well, then you could use that character as a "teacher". So yes, I'm all for such a feature.
Anyway, keep those nominations for the Cantr Awards 2008 coming! There can't be enough nominations.
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