VERSALIA'S PROFILE

Excellent article. Point #4 really hits the nail on the head with the point of a peer review.

author=Shinan
Maybe you can do it when England wins the World Cup.

so ... never :x

in England do you make a fascinator that gets progressively more insane as playoffs continue, sort of like a Canuck playoff beard? because that sounds like a good reason to move

This is a pretty good article. I'd like to add my two cents to bosses whose fights include "luck" as a factor. I agree that the player should never be killed because of pure bad luck when using the optimal strategy and doing everything right (hideous underlevelling aside). However, it is perfectly acceptable to have bad luck dictate the difficulty of a fight. This boss was moderately difficult; if it manages to land its AoE Status Ailment, it becomes balls-out hard. That does not implicitly mean that you are going to lose because of bad luck or chance (and in fact, the perfect strategy here would have been wearing Anti-Status equipment to begin with) - it just means you are going to have a harder time winning. Personally, everybody has fought that boss whose <Annoying Attack> makes things a lot more difficult when it succeeds, and then reloaded their save or played through the game again and found it much easier the second time because they had GOOD luck. Luck is an integral part of gaming. Players should never fail based SOLELY on luck, but luck is an important factor to consider.

:O I got mentioned! FINALLY, being long-winded and rambly gets me ... somewhere, i guess!

(In fact there's a very specific part that is a cultural difference I believe)

Comment! I would love to hear what you have to say.

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.