MAKERSCORE

An explanation of what it is and how it is accumulated

  • kentona
  • 03/23/2011 03:28 PM
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Makerscore is a quantitative representation of your contributions to the site. Certain contributions net you a certain amount of makerscore, for example, a tutorial will get you
30, while a completed 5-star game will get you
750! You can find your total makerscore under your name in both your user profile and under your avatar in posts on the site. You can see a summary of makerscore earned by clicking on Submissions in the toolbar above.

As you garner more makerscore, the space in your personal locker grows (at roughly the rate of 40kb per point of makerscore).

Makerscore is recalculated in an overnight batch job (so when you don't see immediate changes in your makerscore, go to bed! Everything will be better in the morning).


SUBMISSIONMAKERSCORE
Article
30
Tutorial
30
Script
30
Utility
30
Review
50
Game Media
15
Game Image
1
Game Blog Entry
4
Game Page
2
Game Download
15
GAME + RATINGMAKERSCORE
Unrated game
10
0.5 star game
25
1.0 star game
50
1.5 star game
75
2.0 star game
110
2.5 star game
160
3.0 star game
220
3.5 star game
280
4.0 star game
340
4.5 star game
400
5.0 star game
500
COMPLETED GAME*MAKERSCORE
Unrated game
15
0.5 star game
37
1.0 star game
75
1.5 star game
112
2.0 star game
165
2.5 star game
240
3.0 star game
330
3.5 star game
420
4.0 star game
510
4.5 star game
600
5.0 star game
750
ACHIEVEMENTSMAKERSCORE
Event contest entry
Varies
Event contest winner
Varies
Had a game featured
75


*A completed game receives a 50% bonus in makerscore.
**A user marked as 'Tester' or 'Other' on a gameprofile will receive 25% of that gameprofile's makerscore value.

Contribute lots!

*updated to reflect new RMN4 scoring

Posts

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BurningTyger
Hm i Wonder if i can pul somethi goff here/
1289
03/25/2011 03:18 AM
Hm, you don't have gameprofile listed there! Shouldn't' that create score too?
kentona
Bunnyhug
21020
03/24/2011 06:50 PM
author=Darken
So it deletes stuff from your locker if you lose enough maker score? How does that work exactly... if so?
No, nothing is deleted. You just can't add anything new if you are over your limit.
Darken
3952
03/24/2011 06:39 PM
So it deletes stuff from your locker if you lose enough maker score? How does that work exactly... if so?
TheNecromancer
3160
03/24/2011 05:40 PM
I feel sorry for the Final Tear guy....wait, no I don't
kentona
Bunnyhug
21020
TheNecromancer
3160
03/24/2011 05:38 PM
but...

author=Link_2112
If you have a 5 star game and someone adds a shitty review and drops it to 2 stars, do you lose makerscore?
NewBlack
doom
4592
03/24/2011 01:12 AM
author=LockeZ
Instead of displaying makerscore, you should totally use the default XP curves from RPG Maker 2000 to determine each user's "level", and display that instead.


Now that LockeZ has said that... The idea of an RPG Maker forum that has a user scoring system but not levels seems like some kind of horrific oversight.
LockeZ
I'd really like to get rid of LockeZ. His play style is way too unpredictable. He's always like this too. If he ran a country, he'd just kill and imprison people at random until crime stopped.
5958
03/24/2011 01:08 AM
Instead of displaying makerscore, you should totally use the default XP curves from RPG Maker 2000 to determine each user's "level", and display that instead.
eplipswich
2728
03/24/2011 12:16 AM
author=calunio
Honestly, I don't know why people care that much about makerscore. It's nice to see it getting bigger cause it means you're doing something, but having makerscore as a target is just weird.

Sense of self-achievement, basically. Numbers are that accurate and powerful.
calunio
Shamed
10447
03/24/2011 12:09 AM
Honestly, I don't know why people care that much about makerscore. It's nice to see it getting bigger cause it means you're doing something, but having makerscore as a target is just weird.
Deacon Batista
complete b00n
1055
03/23/2011 09:34 PM
Makerscore... the thing we live for, the thing we breath for (virtually), the thing that makes people stop sitting on their a** doing nothing.

I thank you for this article.

Keep submitting lots!
kentona
Bunnyhug
21020
03/23/2011 09:32 PM
author=Shinan
author=LockeZ
Shinan: Yes, it is. If you edit your game, go to the Pages section, and click on the Add Page button, that creates a game page.
Wait a minute I get points for those too? Well well well. Time to throw out some useless tabs!

EDIT: MUAHAHAHA invisible game pages for free points! I'll never have to write a This Week in Blogs again.
OH NO! Someone figured this out.

RMN is doomed.

author=Ben_Random
I NEED that font!

By the way, the only reason Kentona made this is because he wanted 30 more makerscore! :)

http://www.dafont.com/vomzom.font

Also, I do EVERYTHING for the makerscore.
Ben_Random
1019
03/23/2011 09:27 PM
I NEED that font!

By the way, the only reason Kentona made this is because he wanted 30 more makerscore! :)
Shinan
4314
03/23/2011 09:14 PM
author=LockeZ
Shinan: Yes, it is. If you edit your game, go to the Pages section, and click on the Add Page button, that creates a game page.
Wait a minute I get points for those too? Well well well. Time to throw out some useless tabs!

EDIT: MUAHAHAHA invisible game pages for free points! I'll never have to write a This Week in Blogs again.
kentona
Bunnyhug
21020
03/23/2011 09:11 PM
author=Shinan
author=calunio
How is this close to nothing?
Looks like nothing to me.
gameprofiles with translucent sections automatically are worth something, I guess.

Also, for clarification, you can make as many gamepages as you like. You can only have 6 showing on the gameprofile tab list at a time, but you can still link to any of them via URL tags.

Also, I don't like the idea of blogs and gamepages as valueless. (I don't even like the idea of images being valueless). I believe that if people are willing to invest in their gameprofiles it should be rewarded. I will take this all into consideration when I bring this up with the rest of the staff. (we might not even change anything - I mean, hey, its working pretty good now, and does give a pretty decent reflection into the relative contributions to the site).

EDIT: and wow a ton of posts popped up while I dallied.
LockeZ
I'd really like to get rid of LockeZ. His play style is way too unpredictable. He's always like this too. If he ran a country, he'd just kill and imprison people at random until crime stopped.
5958
03/23/2011 09:09 PM
A game profile is a game. Its score is based on the game's rating. Anywhere from 2 to 750 points.

I agree with Calunio that games should never be worth 2 points. Finished games should especially never be worth 3 points. Even with a download, they should never be worth 18 points. A game takes hundreds of times as much time and effort to make as an article or a review, and is ostensibly the primary purpose of the site.

Shinan: Yes, it is. If you edit your game, go to the Pages section, and click on the Add Page button, that creates a game page.
Shinan
4314
03/23/2011 09:05 PM
author=LockeZ
A Game Page is like in Leo and Leah. The author created four Game Pages for this game: Specialties, Battle Skills, Videos, and Known Bugs. Those four pages were worth a total of 16 points all together.

That's not... how it works...

Of course I've never made a custom tab but I don't think those are the "game pages".
calunio
Shamed
10447
03/23/2011 09:04 PM
Oh, I meant gameprofile then, not gamepage (as in tab).
LockeZ
I'd really like to get rid of LockeZ. His play style is way too unpredictable. He's always like this too. If he ran a country, he'd just kill and imprison people at random until crime stopped.
5958
03/23/2011 09:03 PM
Yeah, I don't really LIKE the number of responses idea myself either, I was just suggesting it as a possible compromise.
Versalia
must be all that rtp in your diet
1405
03/23/2011 09:02 PM
author=LockeZ
The Yzal Chronicles blog post Calunio linked to doesn't bother me at all, in and of itself. If someone wants to use their blog for that, more power to them. If people want to read it, great. It shouldn't be worth makerscore, though.

Really, blog posts in general shouldn't be worth makerscore. Not any more than forum posts should be. Blog posts and forum posts are not that different - they are both a short message to the community about a specific topic - so why is one worth makerscore and not the other? They should be worth the same amount. And that amount should be zero, because neither one is normally a significant contribution to the community. (They both *can* be, but by default are generally not.)


this.

If you really did want to quantify the "quality" of a blog post, I would base it on number of responses. Responses show that it's something the community cares about. Make each blog post worth an amount of makerscore equal to the square root of the number of responses. 0 responses = 0 makerscore. 1-3 responses, = 1 makerscore. 4-8 responses = 2 makerscore.

Game pages shouldn't really be worth anything either, since the only thing they do is aid in the marketing of your own game. That's enough of a boon already without also giving points. But whatever, you can only make two or three of them per game, not like blogs where you can make one every day, so it's not a big deal.


not this.
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