[Neraphym]

Ok, I was searching around for cool pictures of 15k Elementalist Armor sets for Guild Wars when I came across this site that had something really neat and innovative that cought my eye. I looked at the proflie bar to the left and saw a Forum Level, HP bar, Energy Bar, and EXP bar. Here's a picture:



Image from: http://forums.gwonline.net/index.php


Now I'm not sure what these things are used for or how they work, but it looks really neat!!! I think we could create similar stat bars and such and find an interesting and fun way to implement them into our forums.

[Ratty]

Kitty!

Hehe, Looks great Just trying to think how it would work...

Maybe you get experience for posting, and levels go up as you get the experience..?

Eh, Interesting to see what'll come of this Nice find alpha

[Goto]

Yeah, I've seen them quite a few times, although this is obviously a slightly GW-adapted version. Never really investigated what they actually do though, eheh.


I don't think they should be implemented merely for the sake of being implemented, we don't want to add on yet more confusing things if it's not going to serve a purpose. This is also the kind of thing that can turn into elitism and split up the boards into 'new' and 'old', in the same way post count or rank potentially could. It wouldn't necessarily do so, but factors such as that do have to be considered and kept in mind, sometimes things that seem like just a bit of fun to us can be misinterpreted by others.

Having said that, depending on how it works it could be quite fun, and I don't really have a problem with it. We need to do some investigation, that's all.

[Neraphym]

Exactly what I was thinking. The discovery was step one, posting the discovery was step two, and now we are on step three: debating on if and how we are going to use this discover. Perhaps we can make some kind of game out of this. Maybe it can be implemented with Darkstorm or something?

[Goto]

Looked into how that board did it a little.

HP seems to be a measure of post count, and your current HP is a measure of how active you actually are (related to your posts per day).

Energy is how long they've been on the forums, and their post count during that time.

Not sure how the leveling up process works though, I was just glancing at it.
This is the FAQ that deals with the system on gwonline, if anyone is interested.

I'm wary of trying to incorporate it with Darkstorm or a similar RP game, since that would end up excluding the majority of our members from the scheme. It's still a possibility, but I think having a profile field that is only going to apply to a small fraction of the active members might be a little silly.

[Neraphym]

So from what I gather, it's just a measure of a person's activeness. It's no different than post count or joining date? Meh...

Anyway, here's what I think. If we do implement this, the shiney stat bars will influence new members to come in and try to raise there stats just like any rpg. It will be one of those unique attention getters that give people an extra bit of urgeyness to come and be a member of our community. Obviously, this will create a little spam, but it can't be worse than the gil system or darkstorm.

Also, maybe we can do something special for those people witch certain stats. We could have some kind of tournament where we bracket people of. People levels 1-10 have a competition, then 10-20, 20-40, 40-60, 60-99... These competitions can have gil prizes or something. I can come up with specific events and what not if need be.

Mine is but one idea. I encourage all of you guys to come here and brainstorm other ideas that might make this kinda fun, but at the same time, not exclusive.

[Aaron]

Great idea, Alpha. I think implementing it in that way and offering competitions will increase activity . The only problem I could see that you addressed would be a spamming problem.

[Goto]

I'm not sure I'd call it unique, I've seen literally dozens of boards with the same or similar systems.

I am a bit worried about the spam this could cause, look at the problem we've had from the gil system. This is so much more readily visble that I could see it being a bigger problem still, so I'm a little hesitant about the issue. It could also potentially highlight the differences between newer members and older members, causing discrimination.

[Kimojuno]

I know it was previously addresed but all this is a RPG posting system, the more you post the hgiher stats you get, and some 'RPGs' have healers, battles, etc. The problem with these type of modded-RPGs is that IPB isn't that coded to implement with such systems. I believe IPB 2.1? (the latest) is more implemented and comes with a intergrated RPG system but I'm not sure.

-- Jeff

[Ferret Overlord]

We should do what Newgrounds does. Have symbols for your rank. This would also involve an extended rank system, since Member, Senior Member, Mod, Smod, and Admin aren't nearly enough

[CongressJon]

It all sounds cool, but I have a feeling it would just cause a lot of work by Cspace for, well, not much. It seems like just something that's nice to look at, but causes a lot of work, and might cause one of those initial "spamfests" for whatever reason. As Goto said, I don't think it should be implemented for the sake of being implemented, but if there is a purpose to it that can benefit everyone, then I don't see why not.

[Bespetna]

Lol, I have 60$ in cash but I am too lazy to walk all the way to Walmart. I don't whant my dad to come becouse he will make me get somthing else with it lol.

[Darkness]

What the..? What the fruit are you talking about, Bes? o.o

[Neraphym]

Yeah, spam, or did you post in the wrong topic?

[Goto]

He probably just saw the GW reference and the stuff about HP, exp, etc. and misunderstood what we were talking about. Easy enough to do if you were just skimming, and I know sometimes I don't have time to do more than that.