Please /sign if you agree - Number Top 100 SGs
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Adam_Alpha,
Posted on: 2009-04-22 13:15 in Suggestions and Ideas
Who gives a flying [censored]?
"If you're going through hell, keep going."
Winston Churchill
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Oh, and btw, I'd gauge that the way you worded your thread's title makes this a petition. Might wanna change that.
"If you're going through hell, keep going."
Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill
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It's a simple quality of life improvement we need.
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Why do we need it? The "Top 100" list means jack squat. If a SG used to be active, got 100 million prestige, but has dropped to only two or three active members for the last six months... are they really a "top" SG?
Frankly, I always thought that list was somewhat ridiculous. It's certainly not something to determine how good an SG might be.
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Who gives a flying [censored]?
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indeed
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It's a simple quality of life improvement we need. I'm tired of setting the Top 100 SGs to list by prestige and then counting them to find out where a SG belongs. Number them already!
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I'll echo the "who cares?" comment.
The only metric by which the game ranks a SG is Prestige earned. What makes a quality Supergroup is a large number of factors that can be quite subjective and have nothing to do with the amount of Prestige the group has earned.
Since Prestige can't be used for anything but building and improving a base, anything a SG earns beyond that is just gravy. What do I care if group X can grind Prestige faster, better, longer, than group Y, especially if Group X is led by a control freak who demands that members show up to Task Force Grind three days a week so that they can stay on the top of the Prestige pile, and Group Y is populated by people who are fun to play with, just not as driven.
I've always considered the Supergroup rankings to be another meter by which insecure people compare e-peens in some sort of nerd dominance struggle. SG ranking has absolutely no bearing on whether I join a SG. The only thing that matters to me is that I like the members and that they are fun to play with.
As a counter to your suggestion, I suggest that they eliminate SG Rankings altogether so that people pimping their Supergroups have to describe the true virtues of their Group, instead of just spamming "Rouge Angles of Mercy, top 5 SG, looking for members, pst for application."
On the other hand, I can't imagine inviting anyone to join my SG until I have played a few missions with them so I can see how well they play and how they would get along with the other members.
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It's a simple quality of life improvement we need. I'm tired of setting the Top 100 SGs to list by prestige and then counting them to find out where a SG belongs. Number them already!
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I'll echo the "who cares?" comment.
The only metric by which the game ranks a SG is Prestige earned. What makes a quality Supergroup is a large number of factors that can be quite subjective and have nothing to do with the amount of Prestige the group has earned.
Since Prestige can't be used for anything but building and improving a base, anything a SG earns beyond that is just gravy. What do I care if group X can grind Prestige faster, better, longer, than group Y, especially if Group X is led by a control freak who demands that members show up to Task Force Grind three days a week so that they can stay on the top of the Prestige pile, and Group Y is populated by people who are fun to play with, just not as driven.
I've always considered the Supergroup rankings to be another meter by which insecure people compare e-peens in some sort of nerd dominance struggle. SG ranking has absolutely no bearing on whether I join a SG. The only thing that matters to me is that I like the members and that they are fun to play with.
As a counter to your suggestion, I suggest that they eliminate SG Rankings altogether so that people pimping their Supergroups have to describe the true virtues of their Group, instead of just spamming "Rouge Angles of Mercy, top 5 SG, looking for members, pst for application."
On the other hand, I can't imagine inviting anyone to join my SG until I have played a few missions with them so I can see how well they play and how they would get along with the other members.
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^ this exactly.
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It's a simple quality of life improvement we need. I'm tired of setting the Top 100 SGs to list by prestige and then counting them to find out where a SG belongs. Number them already!
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I'll echo the "who cares?" comment.
The only metric by which the game ranks a SG is Prestige earned. What makes a quality Supergroup is a large number of factors that can be quite subjective and have nothing to do with the amount of Prestige the group has earned.
Since Prestige can't be used for anything but building and improving a base, anything a SG earns beyond that is just gravy. What do I care if group X can grind Prestige faster, better, longer, than group Y, especially if Group X is led by a control freak who demands that members show up to Task Force Grind three days a week so that they can stay on the top of the Prestige pile, and Group Y is populated by people who are fun to play with, just not as driven.
I've always considered the Supergroup rankings to be another meter by which insecure people compare e-peens in some sort of nerd dominance struggle. SG ranking has absolutely no bearing on whether I join a SG. The only thing that matters to me is that I like the members and that they are fun to play with.
As a counter to your suggestion, I suggest that they eliminate SG Rankings altogether so that people pimping their Supergroups have to describe the true virtues of their Group, instead of just spamming "Rouge Angles of Mercy, top 5 SG, looking for members, pst for application."
On the other hand, I can't imagine inviting anyone to join my SG until I have played a few missions with them so I can see how well they play and how they would get along with the other members.
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I 100% agree... which is why I have exactly 1 SG and 1 VG and they are both solos for the moment. Do I care about my "SG rank"? NOPE! I want to build the base to end all basses and then when I do open it to meet new players that are fun to play with... they will have a great base to have fun in and they won't have to "run in SG mode forever" just to get stuff in the base that they may or may not use.
But I really don't care if I have a top rated SG at all. I PLAY this GAME to have FUN!
Its harmless enough of a request, and if it is easy, I'd say go for it. Different strokes people, some folks do care about their rank, so please be respectful of that.
I wouldn't want any significant dev time spent on it though.
And yeah reword so it isn't a petition.
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Its harmless enough of a request, and if it is easy, I'd say go for it. Different strokes people, some folks do care about their rank, so please be respectful of that.
I wouldn't want any significant dev time spent on it though.
And yeah reword so it isn't a petition.
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good point
the problem is that prestige doesn't show how active or how friendly an sg is. and as such, rank should not be based off of prestige. seriously, i can take my vg and have everyone in it "farm" prestige till they're blue in the face, but that isn't being fair to them. nor is it being fair the the rank system. it is a falible way to get people to join what they think is a fun, social sg/vg.
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Its harmless enough of a request, and if it is easy, I'd say go for it. Different strokes people, some folks do care about their rank, so please be respectful of that.
I wouldn't want any significant dev time spent on it though.
And yeah reword so it isn't a petition.
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Eminently reasonable, Catwhoorg, as always. While I may not appreciate why it is important to some people, I do realize that it is important to them.
I concede.
New story arcs coming soon (ARC IDs will be aded when I finish the arc):
So, you want to join the Hellions? (level 1-14 Villainous arc)
Sparks & Steel (level 5-20 Heroic arc)
and
So you want to join the Skulls? (level 1-14 Villainous arc)
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It's a simple quality of life improvement we need. I'm tired of setting the Top 100 SGs to list by prestige and then counting them to find out where a SG belongs. Number them already!