What's "Username HERO 2nd level"?

[Mark]

I'm open to suggestions. On CM we used Roman political ranks. I grabbed the 4E monsters - and, for the moment, character levels also - because they were easy and to-hand, but I've no emotional investment in this ranking structure one way or t'other.

Start a news story and a new thread for suggestions, maybe even a contest (I'll donate a prize).

 

[Jeremy757]

Morrus, you speak Texan!

Heh. I was thinking the same thing myself.

 

[StreamOfTheSky]

I share Brown Jenkin's concerns. I'm glad this is only a trial period, and am happy these things were considered before trying it. I still am uneasy about it and hope it isn't kept ultimately.

And thanks for the option to turn it off, which I'll be using...now.

 

[Orius]

"Lord of the Nine" has a nice ring to it, don't it just, though....

Yup, though according to Morris' comments, probably not happening.

They#re all from the MM and they all match their correct level; I'll leave fun of discovery to you guys though!

If it goes permanent, it might be a good idea to have a list somewhere, unless you want several dozen posts a week asking what the different ranks are...

You can check someone's profile to see their XP awards. We're 99.9999% likely to remove negative awards if we can figure out how to.

Honestly, if you can, I think it might be better to just hide who's giving out rep points except to the people giving and receiving each a award. Keeping them in public view might cause hard feeling somewhere.

Negative rewards might be useful if it helps keep people in line, but I can see the logic behind turning it off. And I've seen boards with rep systems where some users actually went out of the way to accumulate a negative rating and wallowed in it. Which you also porboably don't want.

We've tried to mitigate it by setting a spread of 50 points, so you have to give XP to 50 other people before you can give XP to that same person again (and you cna only give 3 per day). We hope that will prevent cliques awarduing each other XP continually. And as the month goes, we can adjust those settings - if the 50 needs to be increased, it can.

That also might be a bit high; while tis might seem a bit close to the "popularity" and "cliquish" aspects, 50 seems high to me given that I don't respond to a great deal of posts every day. There are simply some people who I'm just more likely to agree with than others and thus who I'm more likely to award poins.

What doesn't make sense about them? We're just playing with them at present, and they'll probably change a few times. Right now, there are three elements, coded to XP levels:

HERO/PARAGON/EPIC
LEVEL
A monster type of that level

I'm not sure which of the three I like best at present, but monster type seems more colourful and fun.

I think a combination of level and monster type is good.

Well, I don't think the HERO, PARAGON, and EPIC names are particularly needed. With just level and monster name, we'd then have it all on one line.

But if we DID keep it on two lines, maybe the monster name should go on the second name entirely like:

HERO 1st level
Kobold Slinger

Or 1st level - Kobold Slinger

Just a thought.

Like this. Level first line, title second level.

I'm open to suggestions. On CM we used Roman political ranks. I grabbed the 4E monsters - and, for the moment, character levels also - because they were easy and to-hand, but I've no emotional investment in this ranking structure one way or t'other.

Levels are good. Titles don't have to be monsters, but anything D&D related is good.

 

[Arkhandus]

Erm, for some reason next to my posts it shows "has reputation disabled". Dunno why. I went to give someone an XP yesterday, but didn't put in a reason, didn't know that was necessary. So it didn't go through. After that, this started showing up next to my posts. Wierd.

 

[Lanefan]

Suggestion: for level titles, let us pick a class from 1e and use the class name for our level...thus, when I pick Fighter I'll be "Swashbuckler" at 5th level and "Lord" at 9th. The advantage here is once past 9th the name doesn't need to change any more...

'Course, this assumes the necessary ExP gain over time.

In general, I like the ExP idea. Not a fan of the Hero-Paragon-Epic bit, though, as that really is 4e-centric...and, well, I'm not.

Lane-"any ExP is good ExP"-fan

 

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

I am not sure I want to be called a monster with my title, but I like the 4E based names in principle.

Maybe there should be a "multi-edition" approach - use 4E Tiers, 3E Monsters by CR, and earlier edition class & level names.
(Problem maybe: Which class names? Do we start as Fighters and become eventually Wizards)

 

[Brown Jenkin]

While I still dissagree in principle with the concept, I will comment on the names in case they are kept. I too dissagree with the 4E centric naming convention. The boards are pretty evenly split (maybe 60-40 pro 4E) but taking such a stand really does firmly put the boards in one particular camp.

I would be ok with 1E titles (which keeps both 3.x/Pathfinder and 4E camps from claiming victory) or if possible allow each person to choose from seperate lists.

I must also recomend as well posting the list of titles. I have been on other boards where the titles were kept secret and it really drove people to try and artificially boost postcount/reputation just to find out what they are.

 

[The_Warlock]

Yup, though according to Morris' comments, probably not happening.

But a devil can dream, can't he?

 

[Morrus]

Can anyone help out with a little code? The problem: XP is showing, even when turned off. Here's the code:

<if condition="$show['reputation']">
	<div>
		<if condition="$show['reppower']">$vbphrase[reppower]: <span id="reppower_$post[postid]_$post[userid]">$post[reppower]</span> </if>
		<span id="repdisplay_$post[postid]_$post[userid]">$post[reputationdisplay] XP: $post[reputation]<br> $post[level]
</span>
	</div>
</if>

As you can see, EVERYTHING is within the IF tags, so if reputation is off, none of it should show, right?

For reference:

reppower - globally turned off (the number of points the user can allocate at a time; here it's 1 for everyone). Correctly not showing.

$post[reputationdisplay] - the little greenboxes

$post[reputation] - the XP score

$post[level] - the level title

I can't work out why turning it off doesn't turn it ALL off.