How much do you use player notes and ratings?

I use it for notes, not ratings. I used to just use a txt file outside of the game, but that was mostly for team configurations in case I had to reinvite during a crash or took a TF photo op at the end and wanted to remember who's who. I like the ability to do it in game. I've tried to add notes more recently for TFs completed with people, but I think that's in part because I'm mostly on a new server now.

For some of the TFs I'm on, it might take me longer to add notes for everyone saying I was on the TF with them than it does to finish the TF... >.>

I usually forget to set a new toon to show those ratings, but I do use them on occasion.

I usually do it as an "all or nothing" way of leaving notes to myself, 5 stars with a brief note as to why ("good team leader") one star and another brief note, but with an explanation ("idiot kept rushing in to get the alphas with his blaster").

I don't very often see anyone I've noted as one or the other pop up again though (see the first sentence!), but I did one time end up on a PUG with a one starred player - things worked out ok though, so I just rolled with it rather than quit. One the other hand, if that one star note had said something really strong like "verbal abuse", or "tried to form a team then quit it when he had 6 players but couldn't find a healer" (I got my laughs from it but still, one must have standards), I'd just bow out. Politely.

I don't use it very often, because I solo quite a bit. I do use it to flag people who I've had a good time with when I run TFs. Just so I can identify them on my (occasional) teams. I have one-starred a few idiots too.

Necrotech_Master has 5 stars, just for the record.

Five stars for fun people, one star for whiners, broadcast racists, complainers, and the other garbage of MMOdom. No need to use the middle ratings.

I use them to keep track of my favorite players. Sometimes they have a lot of alts.

5★ - Friends I regularly game with.

1★ - Morons, gargoyles, dillweeds, and the like, with notes.

Like a lot of people I rate scale from 1 - 5 with 1's being someone who I wouldn't want to team with again and 5's being RL friends.

It'd be nice if player ratings showed up in chat as well. If for instance I saw someone was looking for a team and I saw that their name was proceded with a single star I'd instantly know to avoid that team.

I have no problem with the system being in the game for those who use it. But I never have and likely never will.

For me I have no problem recognizing friends and/or "good" people on my own and I would never bother wasting even a second of my precious time one-staring an idiot I'll likely never see again. These reasons are the same reasons I've never bothered "ignoring" anyone either. I have much better uses of my time than trying to catalog random idiots in this or any game. *shrugs*

I only rarely use the rating system, and when I do it's to give someone 1 star for being extremely annoying in some fashion. If you think about it, given how easily annoyed I am and how I nearly always play with PuGs, the fact that I only rarely use the rating system in this fashion says good things about our community (or, at least, the players on Virtue).

I use it all the time.

It started due to PvP. I used it to note folks who were skilled, or otherwise
interesting or dangerous, and I use it to denote the various whiners,
griefers, carebears, and in general, the "jackwagons" wandering around the
zone.

Typically, my 1 star rating means "Kill On Sight"... The reasons they have it
vary widely, and in general it has little bearing on whether I'll team with
that person or not for PvE (although, in some cases the note will remind me
about my decision on that as well).

In PvP, they're a priority target until they leave.



Regards,
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I tend to use them sporadically, pretty much as most folks here have mentioned.

I don't rate for PUG mission runs, but try to remember to do so after TF's

5 is someone I know personally or who I've played with for a long time.
4 is someone I recognize as very skilled or generally respected in the community.
3 is an average or casual player that I have teamed with and had no problems (default).
2 is someone who is "on probation", or I'm unsure of
1 is usually someone who's earned a special place on my ignore list for exceptional rudeness.

I also do use the notes to help my old brain remember the circumstances of meeting or playing with folks.

I have my options set to show rating always, and have found myself on teams with players that I've previously rated... I like that because it gives me an opportunity to add to a note, or adjust a rating... if warranted.

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I use it a lot.
Chances are, if you played with me, you have at least 3 stars hanging around you...
My personal ratings are:

5 - I really really really really love this person. Lots of people here. What can I say? I love my friends!
4 - I played some times with this person, and I am starting to like him(her). Many people here too.
3 - We played together once or twice. I add a description to help me remember. many people here.
2 - We played, and someone about this person annoys me a little. But he still can be saved from the inquisition. A few persons here.
1 - if we are going to kill this person, can I start the fires? There is only two persons on this stage.

When I make adjustments, I note then... something like:
(+) Is from the LoC
(-) Hates coffee

But no adjustment can bring someone from 2 to 1. 1 is very special, and can only be awarded to those I hate.

I also place the RL names of those I know...
I also place any juicy data I have... (children names and ages, husband name, where he lives)

In the end my notes are actually big things full of strange data...

Never use it. Its existence doesn't even flicker on my radar.

I've never starred, but I began using the player notes when once too often someone I didn't recognize recognized me. Sure, it takes a little time to stop moving during pauses between missions and make a player note of whatever impression I've formed, but I find it helps me to feel more connected to a community and less lost in a sea of strange robots, aliens, ninjas, catgirls, and pirates.

I use the ratings fairly regularly, but I almost never use the notes. In all cases where I rate someone, it's someone I'm currently teaming with.

1 - Scum of the earth; do not team with them ever again.
2 - PuG teammate who stood out as a good player; worth teaming up with again.
3 - Member of Repeat Offenders; helps for identifying members of the network.
4 - Member of RO who I especially enjoy teaming with.
5 - Friend in real life.

Generally, ratings are just so I don't have to memorize someone's entire list of characters.

Basically I use it to create 3 different classes:

5 stars: ME! Seriously, I give my other account (down to 2 now) 5 stars so I can easily spot my characters when I'm moving stuff around.

4 stars: Very exclusive club. Maybe 6 people in it.

3 stars: Don't use since I don't need to denote "this person is thoroughly average"

2 stars: See "3 stars" above, except substitute "sub" for "thoroughly"

1 star: Just so I know to steer clear. If I see a 1-star leading a pug, I excuse myself with a quickness. If I see a 1-star on the team but not leading, I may stick around, or may not.