I have a suggestion on armor points, considering this website is a game site, shouldent armor points be gained by how many games a person plays, or his/her performance on that game? Because right now, people can just get armor points from ratings, comments, and forum posts, and merits, and also submitting games, which are all fine, but I stress this is a game site, shouldent armor points be gained by the performance of the player in games?
[b]I dont care for the point system by playing the most games. i think it should b if the people r nice to the authers and writers of the games. they get points
the only games you should be able to get points from would be online games, IF they were to give points for playing any games. just for the player vs player. but i doubt they will ever do it.
Again a big problem would occur with this... people would open 10 windows with the same (or different) games, simply wait an hour while they do other stuff and end up with getting 30 extra AP's for doing nothing...
ok how about once a day ? as i said nothing big just a little bonus
Again a big problem would occur with this... people would open 10 windows with the same (or different) games, simply wait an hour while they do other stuff and end up with getting 30 extra AP's for doing nothing...
uhm...your cookies that are in the server only activate once when you play a game. Just like how you try and comment on two different windows to find out only one got submitted.
This would also have loopholes to gain AP quickly! Say we take the example of the game 'SandCastle' that was recently added on AG... this game can be finished in 15 minutes tops, which would mean you could easily gain 1000 AP after playing it 10 times in a row... where's the sense in that?!? O_o And if the amount of AP's to be gained would be as low as 10 AP for one highscore entry, the games with long playing times will be disgarded completely by AP-hungry users... thus undermining the whole point of a gaming website: playing games!
It would be recorded only once, like how you rated the game only once and can't rechange it for extra points. And...I don't see how other games besides the highscore-type games would be disregarded... Just about every game after a week would have tens of thousands of plays on it, except ones that were most popular would have hundreds...but the point is, just because they won't offer points because they aren't highscore-type games doesn't mean they won't be left out in the dirt.
And how does undermining the difficulty change the websites reputation? Developers don't have to lower the difficulty to adapt to one's needs; if they want the points, they are going to have to earn it!
aaand... As long as the staff keeps producing great games and maintaining the site's uber-godliness, this site will still be alive.
I dont care for the point system by playing the most games. i think it should b if the people r nice to the authers and writers of the games. they get points
Presenting a little problem there... if you don't like a game (at all) you would still have to be nice to the makers to get those points! Thus making people write only good reviews in stead of what they really think... and the latter is the most important thing if you ask me! Honesty!
What's the point of writing a review without any bad things or glitches appearing in the game? Then the creator of the game would simply stay ignorant of those bad things or glitches and would never have the chance to correct them and upgrade the game...
uhm...your cookies that are in the server only activate once when you play a game. Just like how you try and comment on two different windows to find out only one got submitted.
Hey! Haven't thought of that possibility! This way you would be able to defeat those AP-hungry people in their conquest to gain a lot of AP the easy way! Nice! =) And then the 'disregarding' I mentioned earlier woudn't be a problem anymore! Why haven't I thought of that...?! *hits himself on the head* =D
As long as the founder of a game donsnt spend 100 000$ on security, then no, as long as there are games there will be hacks. Its even harder if its not online, cause u can't really know who hacks
I was not even taking hacking and refreshing into consideration, it does represent a problem with my idea, with all the information I have gathered from the others replying to my post, I am against my idea, there is just to much that could go wrong with it.
Or we could just do away with APs. I like the shiny little tidbits that go with them as well as the next person, but it doesn't influence the new games I try and review.
and it would get rid of some of these sooo interesting discussions.
Mainly, I read this one through to see if someone made the same suggestion I did. The irony here is that I'll get a couple AP for it. (mods, feel free to delete these 2 AP)
I don't see why people instantly assume the method for obtaining AP by playing games would be for the user to get X amount of AP the second the game loads. I'm also pretty sure the refresh the page get more AP wouldn't be a problem because its to code the site to recognize whether or not a user has played the game and obtained the AP.
With kongregate you have to get some sort of achievement to get the points. Armor Games could have a system where a player has to reach a certain score or level to get the AP for playing the game. (Obviously it be different for each individual game. It would also be somewhat easy to achieve because it would just be a method of ensuring people played the game, not an achievement type of thing.)
Or we could just do away with APs. I like the shiny little tidbits that go with them as well as the next person, but it doesn't influence the new games I try and review.
But then you wouldn't know who newer users are and who has been on the site for a while. The AP system also helps make it obvious when a, dare I say it, troll posts.
However none of this matters because, I assume, it would take way too much coding to implement any features that would give AP for playing games. I think we'd see post editing options before AP was given for playing games; plus, AG has been optimizing the site or something for a few years now?? (Not to sound mean, I like the the site fine the way it is.)
I think there isn't any point to add other ways of getting AP.. Just causes more spam.. anyway related and we already have enough ways of gaining AP. Lol
