Prestige for each block/prop

[Pseudonym84]

@james

Can we leave this to the side? The Prestige system doesn’t attempt to do this. No one claims it does. It never will. The layout of the blocks isn’t considered.

I’ll drop it. They were just my thoughts on how I feel the prestige system should work.

@james

I’m not opposed to player input. But we don’t want a system that can be easily abused by unfriendly players

I don’t see how it would be easy to abuse a player input system. Sure, you could get your friends to up-vote your build, and all their friends, or all your followers, but if it was put alongside the algorithm you’re working on, it would be easy to spot the frauds.

@luke-turbulenz also mentioned that;

@luke-turbulenz

Praising can become a popularity contest and people will start lobbying for votes and offering free gifts in return for votes even if their build is ugly.

To get around this you simple do not show who has voted for your build. That way you can offer someone a gift for a vote, but you still won’t know if or not they actually used their vote. That would stop people from ‘buying’ votes.

I also already suggested not allowing friends or guild members to vote on your builds as another alternative.

@james

?? This appears to miss the point. It has nothing to do with materials. Players can use whatever they want.

Hence;

@Pseudonym84

This isn’t their intention though. They’ve already mentioned they want to work around this.

I think you misread what I said.

@james

For me this is a perverse point. Obviously that build is stunning. And you would imagine that whoever created it would have put as much love and care into sculpting blocks and finding the perfect tints, etc. So they would have scored more in the Prestige system.

But yes, absolutely, if they chose not to sculpt any blocks (and strangely) limit there own creativity, and another player placed the same blocks with sculpting then they would score more.

I’m sorry if it came across that way, and I generally do make some rather (what I consider humorous) but cynical posts. I apologise!

My point here still stands though I hope, that an absolute mess, pile of rubble scattered across the ground over a matter of days, could potentially be more prestigious than the screenshot I posted, for some arbitrary reasons;

‘ahh, this one looks like a replica of King’s Landing… but look over here! Among this rubble there’s a handful of chiseled blocks and some refined gleam! This has my vote!’

It wasn’t necessarily a case against the chisel, more-so a case against computers deciding prestige - but alas. I seem to have misplaced my concerns. You’re right in saying I’ve been missing the point - the proposed system was never meant to calculate aesthetic beauty, and in that case I’ll put this to rest.

Sorry for any misunderstandings!