Resetting Point System... - Page 12 - Blizzard Sector

**Warslut** · 02-09-2005, 05:11 AM

No ones really... greedy, just pop in bank and wait... and then you've got lots. And not like you can do a whole lot with them, although Skidude is getting anoying :P But that's about it...

**PantallicA** · 02-09-2005, 05:12 AM

I'm not greedy, I'm just waiting for someone who deserves my points.

Anyway, anything off-topic after this post will result in negative rep. This thread shall be considered closed, unless you have an opinion that you feel needs to be voiced. As Cheshire said, any arguing will result in a 2 day ban.

**Zakel** · 02-09-2005, 05:12 AM

Im against doing anything with the points just leave them as they are. Who cares if someone has over a mil. Someone said something before about Bill Gates.. he gets over a million dollars of interest alone that would satisfy me in for life but i dont give a care let him be rich. Same with points if they are rich so be it as for the auction think sometimes people can refuse a offer if they know they have 500 of em. As for the interest you should find a way to make it the same as real banks wouldnt that make things interesting. Let the poor cherish the points they have dont reset it and let teh rich flaunt it. 1 more thing... Higher taxes for the rich lower for the poor or something like Income Tax who knows.. i just say leave the points alone.

EDIT: Didnt see the post above me when i posted :

**mate6007** · 02-09-2005, 05:34 AM

i dont really see the point of a bank at all

**SpreadNeedleXP** · 02-09-2005, 06:00 AM

I say get rid of them entirely, if it sparks this much tension and flaming. Unless we can all control ourselves and not act immature, there should'nt be points.

**Spitfire** · 02-09-2005, 08:25 AM

Diablo II Sector
http://www.d2sector.net
ATTN: Point System

Recently on the Diablo II Sector forums people have been arguing about the current points system so I thought I’d give you all the 'admin' view. To those of you who are going to wet your girly little panties if the points system is reset... get over it. There is more to the D2S forums than how many points are under your name. If you wish to leave for such a pathetic reason, then that’s your prerogative.
The points system was introduced to encourage members to post with the reward being the ability to customise profiles and other options here and there… Members that have chosen to start trading points for items have done so at their risk. It was in no way my intention for this to happen. Originally people that chose to spam and or use point mule accounts to get a ridiculous amounts of points from bank interest could do no more than use all the store options and maybe change a lot of members titles. Thus not having much of an effect on the forums... So to those of you choosing to trade items and whatever else for points, the point system simply wasn’t made for it… It’s too difficult to control it to make it a fare currency. Sure it worked to start with, but obviously people were going to become fairly rich with time…

To sum up the situation... In the short term, no the point system wont be reset. BUT we will be reviewing how many points you get per post, how much items in the store cost, how many points you get when you first sign up, and the maximum amount of points you can earn (keeping in mind the points system was for profile customisation so you don’t really need a ridiculous amount like 500,000+ points and yes, those with points over the max limit we might set, WILL have their points reduced to this amount. Sorry…)

People can continue to trade items for points, but be aware that it’s your choice to do so and that the points system wasn’t intended for this purpose. You’ll have to live with whatever issues it throws at you.

Also, I have just deleted around 9,000 forum accounts where the username had 0 posts and hadn't logged in for the past 30 days to rid of any possible point mule accounts.

We may introduce some more forum mods that somehow allow trades to occur in a more controlled and fair environment, since it seems to be a popular thing amongst members... But we shall see.

On another topic... To those of you not taking other Admins seriously i.e CheshireCat, they have as much power as I do here. Yes i may be the "GOD" admin but that means little. They have all the same access and power as I do so please stop blowing them off.

- Spitfire.

**mate6007** · 02-09-2005, 09:04 AM

well your just the niciest person ive meet.....

do you think becos your administor u can say wateva u want to person and get away ahahah not me.

If it wasnt for points i probably wouldnt be here since there is some fun of havin stuff people dont have (as sad as that sounds its true) reseting the points will lose plenty of people for no reason. however keeping them as theyre will not lose anyone.

thumbs down for reseting
Thumbs up for keeping

02-09-2005, 10:10 AM

ok I have read about enough to say I don't have any points right now. But you guys *****ing about points is lame come on they are just points for god sakes.

Insane_Necro :

**Cauhtemoc** · 02-09-2005, 11:10 AM

I have just spent the last 30 minutes or so reading thru these 16 pages (yeah, I know, I was bored).

Seeing as I joined this forum quite recently, I don't have many points. I don't have much, and I don't need much. Sure, changing your title such is always a nice feature to have, and I don't think anyone can argue with that.

Points are also nice to have as a universal currency here at D2 Sector, and removing them might be unfair to those with insane amounts. I couldn't care less about what happens to the entire points system, hence why I neither have, nor will vote in this poll.

I've also just read the new trade rules, and without doubt, that's a step in the right direction.

**Crown** · 02-09-2005, 11:33 AM

Well since we already know what is going to happen now, why don't we all just shut up about the points and get over it because they really aren't going to get you very far without the item auctions.

**Fuji** · 02-09-2005, 12:40 PM

All right. The capping of points is a great idea. I just found out that someone said that before. (Sorry.)

**skidude** · 02-09-2005, 02:07 PM

thats a good way to put it spitfire way to go i think 500k is a good bit of points that seems far even tho i have more right now :

Cauhtemoc here since im going to lose a crap load of points soon no tellen when here take some points atleast 5k :

also Aminsane2004 u might wanna remove that sig its way to big before someone from mod team does it 4 u :

i don't have power to remove sigs i don't think or it would be done i think only supermods and admins can

and yes all admins use same cp to logon and have same stuff i used to admin another forum and it was a nice cp :

but that forum sucked i quit and it went to hell

**TyKe** · 02-09-2005, 02:34 PM

i agrre with spit, too many ppls spamming and stuff, but y should there be a limit on points?

**Obfuscate** · 02-09-2005, 04:09 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by 07tyke07

i agrre with spit, too many ppls spamming and stuff, but y should there be a limit on points?

Imposing a limit without reseting the point system will be something of an appeasment to both sides.

**Warslut** · 02-09-2005, 04:09 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by 07tyke07

i agrre with spit, too many ppls spamming and stuff, but y should there be a limit on points?

If you've read any of this thread you'd know...

~~Pyrohammie~~ · 02-09-2005, 08:25 PM

spitfire has a good point and i'll follow what ever he decides to do ... as for me i decided to spend my points .... just in case.... ( judging all the people that have been banned im guessing i will too) <---- o well.

**jedimaster86** · 02-09-2005, 10:13 PM

God (aka Spit) has ascended upon this thread and has made his statement. Therefore the topic at hand seems to have a solution. If u admins have a need to open this back up then do so, but my judgement tells me that no more posts are needed.

~Closed.

View Poll Results: Reset Forum Points or not?
Reset them!	4	14.29%
Don't reset them!	19	67.86%
Get rid of the forum point system entirely!	3	10.71%
Other (post suggestion in thread)	2	7.14%
Voters: 28. You may not vote on this poll

02-09-2005, 05:11 AM	#221 (permalink)
Warslut Status: Perfection or Vanity Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Void Of Tranquillity Posts: 3,434 Tournaments Joined: 0 Tournament Wins: 0 Credits: 84 Spent time on board: 1 Day and 8:09:01 Hours Rep Power: 11	No ones really... greedy, just pop in bank and wait... and then you've got lots. And not like you can do a whole lot with them, although Skidude is getting anoying :P But that's about it... __________________ Turbos don't suck, they blow!

02-09-2005, 05:12 AM	#222 (permalink)
PantallicA Status: Legendurry Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 2,733 Tournaments Joined: 0 Tournament Wins: 0 Credits: 157 Spent time on board: 2 Days and 23:41:37 Hours Rep Power: 9	I'm not greedy, I'm just waiting for someone who deserves my points. Anyway, anything off-topic after this post will result in negative rep. This thread shall be considered closed, unless you have an opinion that you feel needs to be voiced. As Cheshire said, any arguing will result in a 2 day ban. __________________

02-09-2005, 02:34 PM	#233 (permalink)
TyKe Status: CS1.6/D2 fanatic Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Ohio Posts: 850 Tournaments Joined: 0 Tournament Wins: 0 Credits: 56 Spent time on board: 22:26:37 Hours Rep Power: 6	i agrre with spit, too many ppls spamming and stuff, but y should there be a limit on points? __________________

02-09-2005, 10:13 PM	#237 (permalink)
jedimaster86 Status: Super Duper Mod! Join Date: Jan 2004 Posts: 4,126 Tournaments Joined: 0 Tournament Wins: 0 Credits: 184 Spent time on board: 5 Days and 23:39:40 Hours Rep Power: 14	God (aka Spit) has ascended upon this thread and has made his statement. Therefore the topic at hand seems to have a solution. If u admins have a need to open this back up then do so, but my judgement tells me that no more posts are needed. ~Closed. __________________ Vote for us: http://www.gamesites200.com/diablo/in.php?id=682

02-09-2005, 05:12 AM	#223 (permalink)
Zakel Status: Veteran Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Arizona Posts: 497 Tournaments Joined: 0 Tournament Wins: 0 Credits: 15 Spent time on board: - Rep Power: 5	Im against doing anything with the points just leave them as they are. Who cares if someone has over a mil. Someone said something before about Bill Gates.. he gets over a million dollars of interest alone that would satisfy me in for life but i dont give a care let him be rich. Same with points if they are rich so be it as for the auction think sometimes people can refuse a offer if they know they have 500 of em. As for the interest you should find a way to make it the same as real banks wouldnt that make things interesting. Let the poor cherish the points they have dont reset it and let teh rich flaunt it. 1 more thing... Higher taxes for the rich lower for the poor or something like Income Tax who knows.. i just say leave the points alone. EDIT: Didnt see the post above me when i posted :

02-09-2005, 05:34 AM	#224 (permalink)
mate6007 Status: Forum Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: UsWest, Ladder, LOD Posts: 58 Tournaments Joined: 0 Tournament Wins: 0 Credits: 0 Spent time on board: - Rep Power: 4	i dont really see the point of a bank at all

02-09-2005, 06:00 AM	#225 (permalink)
SpreadNeedleXP Status: Diablo Himself Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Planet Earth Posts: 603 Tournaments Joined: 0 Tournament Wins: 0 Credits: 0 Spent time on board: 1:32:40 Hours Rep Power: 6	I say get rid of them entirely, if it sparks this much tension and flaming. Unless we can all control ourselves and not act immature, there should'nt be points.

02-09-2005, 08:25 AM	#226 (permalink)
Spitfire Status: Founder Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Australia Posts: 4,748 Tournaments Joined: 0 Tournament Wins: 0 Credits: 953 Spent time on board: 1 Week, 2 Days and 18:29:44 Hours Rep Power: 15	Diablo II Sector http://www.d2sector.net ATTN: Point System Recently on the Diablo II Sector forums people have been arguing about the current points system so I thought I’d give you all the 'admin' view. To those of you who are going to wet your girly little panties if the points system is reset... get over it. There is more to the D2S forums than how many points are under your name. If you wish to leave for such a pathetic reason, then that’s your prerogative. The points system was introduced to encourage members to post with the reward being the ability to customise profiles and other options here and there… Members that have chosen to start trading points for items have done so at their risk. It was in no way my intention for this to happen. Originally people that chose to spam and or use point mule accounts to get a ridiculous amounts of points from bank interest could do no more than use all the store options and maybe change a lot of members titles. Thus not having much of an effect on the forums... So to those of you choosing to trade items and whatever else for points, the point system simply wasn’t made for it… It’s too difficult to control it to make it a fare currency. Sure it worked to start with, but obviously people were going to become fairly rich with time… To sum up the situation... In the short term, no the point system wont be reset. BUT we will be reviewing how many points you get per post, how much items in the store cost, how many points you get when you first sign up, and the maximum amount of points you can earn (keeping in mind the points system was for profile customisation so you don’t really need a ridiculous amount like 500,000+ points and yes, those with points over the max limit we might set, WILL have their points reduced to this amount. Sorry…) People can continue to trade items for points, but be aware that it’s your choice to do so and that the points system wasn’t intended for this purpose. You’ll have to live with whatever issues it throws at you. Also, I have just deleted around 9,000 forum accounts where the username had 0 posts and hadn't logged in for the past 30 days to rid of any possible point mule accounts. We may introduce some more forum mods that somehow allow trades to occur in a more controlled and fair environment, since it seems to be a popular thing amongst members... But we shall see. On another topic... To those of you not taking other Admins seriously i.e CheshireCat, they have as much power as I do here. Yes i may be the "GOD" admin but that means little. They have all the same access and power as I do so please stop blowing them off. - Spitfire.

02-09-2005, 09:04 AM	#227 (permalink)
mate6007 Status: Forum Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: UsWest, Ladder, LOD Posts: 58 Tournaments Joined: 0 Tournament Wins: 0 Credits: 0 Spent time on board: - Rep Power: 4	well your just the niciest person ive meet..... do you think becos your administor u can say wateva u want to person and get away ahahah not me. If it wasnt for points i probably wouldnt be here since there is some fun of havin stuff people dont have (as sad as that sounds its true) reseting the points will lose plenty of people for no reason. however keeping them as theyre will not lose anyone. thumbs down for reseting Thumbs up for keeping

02-09-2005, 10:10 AM	#228 (permalink)
Aminsane2004 Status: Guest Posts: n/a Tournaments Joined: Tournament Wins: Credits: 0 [Check] Spent time on board: -	ok I have read about enough to say I don't have any points right now. But you guys *****ing about points is lame come on they are just points for god sakes. Insane_Necro :

02-09-2005, 11:10 AM	#229 (permalink)
Cauhtemoc Status: Veteran Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Gothenburg - Sweden Posts: 306 Tournaments Joined: 0 Tournament Wins: 0 Credits: 0 Spent time on board: - Rep Power: 4	I have just spent the last 30 minutes or so reading thru these 16 pages (yeah, I know, I was bored). Seeing as I joined this forum quite recently, I don't have many points. I don't have much, and I don't need much. Sure, changing your title such is always a nice feature to have, and I don't think anyone can argue with that. Points are also nice to have as a universal currency here at D2 Sector, and removing them might be unfair to those with insane amounts. I couldn't care less about what happens to the entire points system, hence why I neither have, nor will vote in this poll. I've also just read the new trade rules, and without doubt, that's a step in the right direction.

02-09-2005, 11:33 AM	#230 (permalink)
Crown Status: Forum Elder Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Pennsylvania Posts: 511 Tournaments Joined: 0 Tournament Wins: 0 Credits: 30 Spent time on board: - Rep Power: 5	Well since we already know what is going to happen now, why don't we all just shut up about the points and get over it because they really aren't going to get you very far without the item auctions.

02-09-2005, 12:40 PM	#231 (permalink)
Fuji Status: Computer Science Major... Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Philadelphia PA Posts: 730 Tournaments Joined: 0 Tournament Wins: 0 Credits: 6 Spent time on board: 3:51:57 Hours Rep Power: 6	All right. The capping of points is a great idea. I just found out that someone said that before. (Sorry.)

02-09-2005, 02:07 PM	#232 (permalink)
skidude Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: greece Posts: 4,671 Tournaments Joined: 0 Tournament Wins: 0 Credits: 317 Spent time on board: 1 Week, 0 Days and 9:59:31 Hours Rep Power: 14	thats a good way to put it spitfire way to go i think 500k is a good bit of points that seems far even tho i have more right now : Cauhtemoc here since im going to lose a crap load of points soon no tellen when here take some points atleast 5k : also Aminsane2004 u might wanna remove that sig its way to big before someone from mod team does it 4 u : i don't have power to remove sigs i don't think or it would be done i think only supermods and admins can and yes all admins use same cp to logon and have same stuff i used to admin another forum and it was a nice cp : but that forum sucked i quit and it went to hell

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02-09-2005, 08:25 PM	#236 (permalink)
~~Pyrohammie~~ Status: Banned Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Iowa Posts: 317 Tournaments Joined: 0 Tournament Wins: 0 Credits: 15 Spent time on board: - Rep Power: 0	spitfire has a good point and i'll follow what ever he decides to do ... as for me i decided to spend my points .... just in case.... ( judging all the people that have been banned im guessing i will too) <---- o well.