- snowmanaxt
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Discipline is my Sword,
Faith is my Shield,
Do not leap blindly into uncertainty,
And you may live to reap the rewards.
"The Important Thing Is To Never Stop Questioning,"
So, after reading this entire thread and mulling over it for about 10 minutes, this seems like the most likely system to be implemented to me.
Step One:
Achronos himself said that step one was getting the points system into place and seeing if it works. In other words: Programming it into B.net altogether and deciding upon what would give points. Should running a highly successful chapter that betters the whole of the 7th column get you points? Should being a regular helpful poster in the main Forums get you points? What should get you points? This, I think is the biggest issue.
Step Two:
Deciding upon what said points would obtain you. Now Achronos and Makaveli have both implied that it would not be a ranking system yet a way to gain Bungie.net rewards, such as Avatars and Titles and such. So here is issue #2. What can Bungie give its members for gaing said points? Avatars, Titles, Ad's on the front page for Chapters, Bungie Swag, etc....? All this needs to be decided upon and then implemented into the already placed points system, which could take a long time.
Step Three:
Following through. The Bungie.net staff already is flooded with Avatar and Theme submissions to gain custom Title/Avatars and such, and because of this have been slow to give out rewards. With the new system in place more rewards will most likely be given out and allot more submission will be made. Bungie may have to increase its Web Team to handle all of this workload. And if it doesn’t, rewards could take even longer than they have at the moment, unless the current Web Team works their Butts off.
Now, keep in mind, this is all just speculation by me and is in no way Bungie’s official word on the subject, we only have Achronos’ Posts and the Few Mod’s posts to go by here. This seem to me like what they may be planning though. It is also apparent to me that if it is, or something similar, that this will take much planning and testing over time, and therefore we cannot wish to see the full system in place anytime in the near future. In other words: Don't get your hopes up. Now again this is all just speculation by me, so it could or could not be true. We will not know until Bungie says something Official on it. (though it seems like they are going to keep it as secret as possible to be able to surprise the members)
On a side note, I noticed a test of the Forums Search Engine ran on Bungie.net a while back, does this mean it's again, coming soon?