Mission Architect Rating System
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EU_Damz,
Posted on: 2009-05-03 10:22 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
Well I agree in that my i've experienced the same problem. I create serious arcs that I'd love to see dev choice or HoF some day and part of me dies a little inside when I see a 20+ 5 star go to a 21+ 4 star arc for example. But I'm not sure making feedback compulsory would alleviate the problem.
The people that currently don't leave feedback, if they were forced to, would probably put something like "was alright" or "add bunnies or ninja's ... or BOTH".
So while I agree I don't know what the best way to solve the problem would be...
Actually, some people do give feedback, but they're on the US servers, so the feedback doesn't come over. 
But /signed anyway.
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Actually, some people do give feedback, but they're on the US servers, so the feedback doesn't come over.
But /signed anyway.
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Which im hoping that the GLOBAL MA channel in issue 15 fixes.
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Maybe make the stars have a preset phrase to help narrow it down?
0 stars = really poor, no story at all.
3 stars = It was ok, but the story wasn't consistant.
5 stars = fantastic, i really felt like i was there!
Something like that.... Make it possible to rate half stars as well so the drop in rating isn't so severe if one person doesn't quite think it's 5 star material.
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Maybe make the stars have a preset phrase to help narrow it down?
0 stars = really poor, no story at all.
3 stars = It was ok, but the story wasn't consistant.
5 stars = fantastic, i really felt like i was there!
Something like that.... Make it possible to rate half stars as well so the drop in rating isn't so severe if one person doesn't quite think it's 5 star material.
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Just make it out of 10
To the OP I think your opus is thwarted by the dogpile of a search system we have at present and the sheer amount of garbage that people are posting in the MA just so they can say they have.
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Maybe make the stars have a preset phrase to help narrow it down?
0 stars = really poor, no story at all.
3 stars = It was ok, but the story wasn't consistant.
5 stars = fantastic, i really felt like i was there!
Something like that.... Make it possible to rate half stars as well so the drop in rating isn't so severe if one person doesn't quite think it's 5 star material.
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Mmmh. I'll give 3/5 stars to something that I think is on a par with the average existing COH stories, 4/5 for arcs which I really enjoy and 5/5 for those that give me the same reaction as doing The Wretch arc or Weston Phipps arc did the first time too.
I'll also knock stars off if there's a whole load of text errors or story inconsistencies.
(I'm doing one right now that would be 4/5, but the first few clues have tons of incorrect spellings in them. If they want to be rewarded for doing things wrong, then they can go to school for that (yeah, I know, stay away from Daily Mail style politics Aardy).
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OK, i know im not the only person out there actually making proper arc's even with all the hoohar of MA farming, and ive been hoping my newest MA arc (125789) would reach the Hall of Fame status at some point, but unfortunately the MA system lets people rate woteva they want without the need to leave feedback...
not lowering the difficulty for it and to be completely honest, i dont they should lower the rating cause they found it a little hard, though that may not be the case.
i come to this conclusion every time i see that i lose a rating star on an arc: "If it didnt recieve 5 stars, what the hell needs to be improved on it?" without the actual information given from the player to help me improve it. To be honest it does my head in.
If im not told what needs to be improved on it, how can i change it? but if its difficulty related (as it is a hard arc) then they can bugger off
anyway in summary, they need to make comments compulsary for anthing lower that 5 stars. have your say on it here.
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