can we lower the quality post count down to like 1 or 2? i still haven't made 10
this sounds cool tho, could get a lot of people on here
I agree with Octa on this, people dont want to wait forever to connect to a server. I dont know how many skins we currently have on our servers, but keeping everything to the most basic like: Registered Skin - Subscriber Skin - Admin Skin - And maybe one more. that leaves us with 6-8 skins in total maybe, if there is one version of the skin for each team. How much extra this is to download i have no idea, but im pretty sure the percentage of the players who would register to get a skin is VERY high!
Forgot about the store, where theres probably a few more skins :/
This could be done automatically using most of the database and functions that the forum already use.
Could possibly setup two different tables that house two different things about the user:
table1
UserID | Username | MonthlyPass |
table2 (Post lookup table / membership table - what ever people call them these days)
UserID | Post |
The UserID on table1 is a primary key - this is the uniqueID the user on the forum gets setup with when they register
Username - Just the username of the person, might not even need this really
MonthlyPass - Bool value that gets set to true / false is the user has met the monthly post count - this can get searched for in the server
UserID on table2 - This is a Foreign key that links to the UserID in table 1
Post - House one post the user has done (Can use the autospam thing to make sure the post is worthwhile before entering into the database)
Each time the user does a successful post, this gets added as a new field in table2. Could have an automatic script running which checks the postcount of the user when they next visit the forums - if it is equal or greater then 10, then tick that monthlyPass to yes.
Do able...
If you really want to keep downloads low, could just allow them to use any CT/T skin instead of just being locked the map's current skin. Not a great incentive, but it's something.
Well it's always nice to have downloads to a bare minimum with the load that it gives to bandwidth and loading times, some people prefer to it over everything.
I wouldn't leave the requirements too low for anything that's "bonus" or similar, just would have spammers come in indeed. Registering, posting a few times and then going inactive just won't do and that should be self-explanatory reason enough.
I second this, having the games original skins would make a small difference, but a difference which could drag in some attention. Myself for one, i would enjoy having the choice to select different looks at times.. Same skins sort of start to bore you quite quickly too. :P
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"NO!"
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The idea of "Get people more involved on the forums by giving them something" was what multiple forum ranks was for. Since people used to have our SG ranks in the game servers. Now it seems that isn't as big a deal as it used to be, however I don't think offering different skins for registering on the forums would do any good. Plus it overloads when we have too many.
Last edited by Drox; 9 Jun 2015 at 03:43pm.