Keeping the "noob-sayers" and "Quiters"

nico · Administrator Joined: 28 Oct 2003 Posts: 837

Well, we have tried something similar before with a 1700+ room, that could only be used by people with a ranking of over 1700. It so happened that that room died within a few months because there were so few people that cared enough to enter the room.
Behaviour is a criterion you can apply after the fact, so people would still spam/curse/quit and be banned after the fact, so that is not much different from a common irc channel.
Also, from the ratings point of view: free online play is often used to playest decks and new ideas, many of them being bad and causing losses to the people playing them. Those people might actually be very good players irl. Making the rating a criterion for entering a certain room, only stimulates netdecking, and not creative thinking.
There will always be netdeckers, but this will only take out the people with ideas.
Also, as someone already pointed out, ratings is not an indication of the personality.

Greetz Nico

Jorbes · Joined: 14 Feb 2006 Posts: 296 Location: Netherland

Wow, page 2 already Razz

OK, i kinda get the general thought is.. how to decide who is in and who is out and the thought that some people who should be in, might never get in.

For now the idea goes towards the following:

I'll set up a few rooms on the server.

a room where the skilled players go to play, people who shouldn't need a explanation of the rules.
Going there should ensure you of a "mtg-smart" opponent.
It'll be open for all, for starters, see how that goes.

a room where you can go if you are a beginner, self explanatory.

a fast room...
a room where you can expect fast paced games, just like the skilled room, there will be no guarantee at first, just to see how this plays out

so basically it will be so that any player can go to any room, but we'll set up a nice ban list if players keep joining rooms they have no business being in (by complaints)

obviously all of this is long term plans, maybe someone will come up with a solid system before then.

Till then, keep posting if you have constructive ideas, that doesn't mean replying to say "person X" sucks.

zzz time

Ffancrzy · Joined: 30 Apr 2006 Posts: 94

I think it would be possible to do something similar to what I have heard Ben Bleiweiss talk about that they have on MTGO a casual room and a tourny practice room basically your begginer and expert level rooms. also you could do a lightning room for fast games. I believe that doing this based on rating would not be a good idea because while I may have a poor rating I dont want to play against "sliver/saproling with hivestone.dec" just because my rating isnt 1700+. also I believe the only way to get better or to make a deck (whether a homebrew or a tweek on a netdeck) better is to play against players that actually know what the post-combat main phase is (aka not scrubs).

kikimikejiki · Joined: 26 Dec 2004 Posts: 649

i always thought the n word was nigger and in that case ur a racist sir

aboshan · Joined: 04 Jul 2006 Posts: 9

DrAwesome · Joined: 03 Jul 2005 Posts: 12

Although its a great idea to have room which seprerates the jerks from the respectful players, it won't work if you have the people in direct control. How can you have the system free of jerks, noobs, and sore losers if you alow them to decide who should be alowed in the various rooms?

As an alturnative you could just have rooms set up like the ones on magic online which include: casual, tourny practice and anything goes. Also instead of voting who could be put into rooms you should vote who should be banned. Not directly but be able to report to judges or mods so they can take action.

This is a really good idea in theory but you have to think about how it will work realisticly.

poopascoopa · Joined: 05 Jan 2005 Posts: 69

I'm not sure I would trust a program written by someone with spelling as poor as yours is. Sorry.

thedarkness · Joined: 13 Jul 2006 Posts: 493

marten2 · Joined: 03 Nov 2006 Posts: 17

I actually like the idea of giving players the opportunity to create rooms themselves and to have a main channel in which the tournaments will be held (if this will ever happen). then people should be able to make criteria for the room and to kick people who seem not to cope with thos criteria.

something comparable is done in the channels: Pollo created a room for good limited players to help him and other people going to nats test tpf. In the topic he put criteria, so that people know whether they fit in the room or not.

I would be glad to see something like that in GO, if you have the programming skills/time available for it

I hope that helped