Hall of Fame requirements need revisiting

I don't know what the magic number should be, but I do think that a 5 star average after 1000 plays is absurd. I think that x number of 5 star votes, rather than an average, would be more appropriate.

The only problem I have with 100 is that it's still low enough to be "gameable." A few popular people in a big SG could get that in a night.

HoF and Dev's choice have done as much to destroy interest in the AE as any nerfs. The high requirements for AE and the minute chance of being lucky enough to catch a Dev's eye probably discouraged a lot of decent mission makers, thus further increasing the ratio of farms over story based missions.

At this point, the vast majority of the community has decided to give the MA a pass, and it just doesn't justify any further resources being wasted on it.

IMO they should simply remove all of the rewards, halt further development of the AE and reallocate resources to projects that would be of benefit to the entire playerbase, because the playerbase is never going to come back to the AE in any significant numbers no matter what they do.

The Hall of Fame requirements has two big problems.

One is that 5 stars is somewhat easy to get but almost impossible to maintain, since, as we have pointed out a billion times, a single 1-star rating for some reason carries a much greater importance than a single 5-star rating. One 1-star "weighs" as much as five 5-star ratings.

The other problem is that an arc may be extremely beloved and have very dedicated fans but if it has 999 fans who play it religiously once a week for two thousand years, it will still never get a hall of fame ranking. A farm that someone made in 30 minutes and thousand people played once, 5-starred as a "gratuity" to the author, and then forgot about can make it into HoF in an afternoon.

Every completed play of an arc should count, even from the same account. That's the only way to really know how popular an arc really is. Of course this wouldn't include the author's account. Sure, someone might sit around and play their own arcs on their second and third accounts, but unless their arcs are good enough all it takes is a few (very few) people to rate below 5 stars and it will drop out of the Hall of Fame in no time.

I agree with Airhead's suggestion, Hall of Fame shouldn't be acquired from an average vote being in the 5 star range, but the total number of 5 star votes. 100 is probably a good number, though I haven't looked at some of the high play 4 star arcs recently to know if there's anything less than stellar. Though I suppose it wouldn't be that bad of a thing if a lot of great arcs became Hall of Fame along with a couple less than stellar ones. Heck, Wild Hogs grossed over 100 million, so there's no accounting for some people's taste.

I wonder how many arcs that are sitting below the radar with an average of 4 stars would jump to HOF status if the requirement were changed to 100 five star votes?

I'm not saying it would be good or bad to have some arcs fall into that category and gain HOF status. But I have no doubt that it will make some players upset that these formally 4 star arcs leapfrogged into HOF status. Especially if one or more of those were farming arcs.

If anything, dragging old farms into the light might be the only way to get the devs to remove them.