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Posted by: guitarplyr
Posted by: Barzma
soon enough, Acronos is bringing in a new system at some point soon.
And can you prove this?This thread has some discussion about it. Here are his quotes:
Posted by: Achronos
The title system for displaying the trust rating sure has had some interesting side effects. A great social experiment, IMHO. There are lots of different places we could take it, you know. The current system was mostly set up as a way to not constantly just have "Member" for everybody, and the trust system was the datasource because we didn't have anything else to base it on. I often wonder if it would be better to link it game participation (probably keeping the prefixes, I like those) and just lose the Heroic/Legendary/Mythic. Maybe as we make more games available we could think up some alternate stuff. But in the meantime, watching how you guys behave relating to a somewhat arbitrary rating is very intriguing.
Posted by: Achronos
The trust rating already includes elements of game participation. I'm talking about making titles less about rankings and more about just labels. Right now, there is a hierarchy. What if there wasn't really a hierarchy. What if they were just labels that you got? The current idea that I fancy is that they'd be a user setting - there would be a set of titles that you can earn for various things, and then you'd go to your My Settings page and select which one you want to use. The prefix would still be done in the same way it is now, to differentiate a bit more. Not sure what I'd do about the bar colors, maybe they'd be earned too.
You guys think of the forum titles as a ranking system, but that's not how I see their purpose. I see it more for differentiating people on the forums, just like avatars.
Nothing really planned here, just thinking out loud.
Posted by: Achronos
It should be noted that if I did change it to a "pick the title you want from the list you've unlocked" I'd probably make sure that a great many of them would be rather obvious as to how you'd "unlock" them. They'd also be participation in nature for the most part. No "is a level 50 in Halo 3", more of "Played X ranked games" or "Played Y social games" or " Played Z custom games". And the elitism you guys seem so fond of whining about wouldn't be there because nobody could tell if you just like a different title or if you don't have a title because you can't unlock it. With a hierarchy, it becomes just a popularity issue, which is easily controlled.
I think I'd also make the bar color just indicative of join date, not the trust rating. I don't really want to give you control over that.
Eh, maybe, maybe not. Again, thinking out loud. It sure would be funny on release day when everybody's bars change and they revert to member because the old way got removed. The Halo 3 forum would freak out.
[Edited on 05.04.2009 4:54 PM PDT]