Re: What are people actually playing?

From: "Enno Rehling" <schick.mir.spam@gmx.de>

Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 19:35:02 +0000

"Greg Lindahl" <lindahl@pbm.com> wrote in message
news:94sejn$veh$1@feed.textport.net...
> Carol Mulholland <Carol@flagship-uk.demon.co.uk> writes:
>
> > It's a lovely idea, but I suspect that it might be fairly easy for an
> > unscrupulous GM -- and/or over-keen players -- to inflate the scores.
> > It seems so easy to set up dummy email addresses. Maybe there's a way
> > round this?
>
> The usual way around it is to create a login system, and then give
> people a reason to log in and be active. The only active people get
> votes that count, and it's too tedious to cheat.

All the voting systems for "best PBEM game" I have seen failed (I'm saying
this although Eressea was voted most popular german game twice in a row).
The game with the most players wins. You could argue that since they have
the most players, they are by definition the most popular, but then you can
forget about the vote altogether and do a player-count ;-)

There has also been a lot of cheating going on in vorting systems where the
result was not based on the sum of the votes, but a score from 1 to 10 -
people voted massively for games they had never played, to make their
average lesser than whatever game they favoured.

In the end it seems that everyone plays one or two games only anyways, and
letting them vote on the whole range of games is a Bad Idea in the first
place. And yes, they normally like the games they play more than the ones
they don't play, which is also quite obvious :-)

Enno,
doesn't believe in voting systems and has deregistered Eressea from almost
all the polls out there. It's doing more bad than good to the reputation of
your game.

References

Re: What are people actually playing?
Carol Mulholland <Carol@flagship-uk.demon.co.uk>
Fri, 26 Jan 2001 17:30:45 +0000
Re: What are people actually playing?
lindahl@pbm.com (Greg Lindahl)
Fri, 26 Jan 2001 18:11:03 +0000

Referenced By

Re: What are people actually playing?
Carol Mulholland <Carol@flagship-uk.demon.co.uk>
Fri, 26 Jan 2001 17:30:45 +0000
Re: What are people actually playing?
lindahl@pbm.com (Greg Lindahl)
Fri, 26 Jan 2001 18:11:03 +0000