On 02/11/2011 22:07, dmex wrote:
@Fletch
I was thinking about how the ability to rate servers on the server browser
would be a really good way of raising awareness. You could then allow the
user to directly filter the rating of servers they wish to play on while
also allowing them to weed out the 'bad" servers in a much quicker way.
Having it readily available on the server browser would also encourage its
continued usage.
The problem is, one person's idea of a great server is different from
another's.
If these servers are popular and, as someone has suggested, they make a
lot of money from selling premium accounts
it seems likely they will get a high rating from their users
irrespective of what others think about them.
Not to mention, if either F2P users can rate servers, or if these people
make enough money to buy a few items and create premium accounts
it will be trivial for them to give themselves a high server rating.
I think Fletcher is right to note that you will not come up with a
solution that does anything other than create
a different problem to solve. And that doing anything about this is
really wasting time better spent.
It's not a big problem imo. I don't want to sit rating rubbish servers,
if I happen to join
one I'll just leave and find a better one.
So long as you can find a good server to play on there's no real problem
bad servers existing.
--
Dan.
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