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Yes there will undoubtedly be some people who rate to grief, but is it commonplace?
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Even putting aside the whining from players who clearly overate thier own creative ability, it does seem to be reletively common, yes.
There is an incentive for players to gank an arc, and no reason for them not to, other than to trust people to be honest. And we know, when you collect together a large number of people, then you are bound to get a few bad apples. Currently, it takes maybe a minute to 1 star an arc, so one person could gank hundreds in a session.
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If that is so, then I'm hoping the GMs use a timebased ban on offending accounts...
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Currently, the rating system is compleatly broken, and is going to have to be changed. In the meantime, I suggest we ignore it when searching for arcs to play.
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Gadzooks man! That'd be like trying to use teh intehwebz without google et al!
Though probably true at the moment...
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Im sure a fair number of "Ive been ganked" complaints are a resut over over-inflated ego.
But Iv'e seen others arcs that have been ganked. Arcs that I could beleive a 3 star vote, swallow a 2 star vote, but are clearly polished enough to get above 1 star.
It may be that these votes are simply by trigger happy 1 starrers. But in reality the dividing line between this and ganking is very blurred indeed.
PRAF is right. I ignore star votes at the moment* I go by personal recommendation (of arcs other than the players) and by titles (at the moment I prefer custom mobs, longer arcs, no ninjas). Anything that would not appeal to me (challenge missions, ninnjas, farms) I would not play, and if dragged on one, wouldnt vote either (As its not my cup of tea, I cant really pass comment).
*Actually I dont ignore. 4 star missions are actually slightly better (on average) than 5 star ones at the moment, for some reason; at least for those with votes 20 or less. [But the number of 5 star arcs with more than 20 votes is very slender].
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What you see on your scrapper as a challenging arc with interesting mobs the poor defender found to be an impossible arc with hideously overpowered custom gankmobs.
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There is a probably a reason why Dev missions only get so difficult on heroic setting. With defenders much can be powers that need someone to buff. A NPC that helps them could then help solve the problem. Either that or you specifically in someway warn that its to trial teams because solo would be suicide. It may not always be, but the better warning is there. With that, a rating no higher than 3 may be given due to "not knowing what the rest of the arc was like and no higher than a 4 may be given because it was of great effort. A 5 may be given by those powersets that could handle it, saw it all and thought it was a great effort. If your less than a 3 then you may of not done anything special. If your at 3 despite what you know is good then people may not be finishing the arc to properly mark it. All they know is, is that the rewards/time and fun wasn't really for their empath with dark blast.
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Yes there will undoubtedly be some people who rate to grief, but is it commonplace?
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Even putting aside the whining from players who clearly overate thier own creative ability, it does seem to be reletively common, yes.
There is an incentive for players to gank an arc, and no reason for them not to, other than to trust people to be honest. And we know, when you collect together a large number of people, then you are bound to get a few bad apples. Currently, it takes maybe a minute to 1 star an arc, so one person could gank hundreds in a session.
Currently, the rating system is compleatly broken, and is going to have to be changed. In the meantime, I suggest we ignore it when searching for arcs to play.
I really should do something about this signature.