Guys, get a grip

[HoudiniMan]

Ok... I don't know if this is me being cynical but i've seen a lot of these fake reviews that are crap. I think i've found the problem with most of your guys' methods too... You start at 10 and you dock points for this and such...well, thats all good and fine but a lot of mediocre servers are going to get "passing" marks if you do the math, and then not when the players get on them. Now, this next part is advice for everybody, i'm not trying to prove i'm best at it... I do want to be a part of the PW team, but a couple people know and if they chose to spread the word about me that's their call. No use denying it, but this is honest advice to all you other people...

My system is more centered around a playerworld earning their marks, not getting deductions. I saw that post down there about Doomsday where the guy gave them a 7/10 and then listed a bunch of things to be improved. I agree whole heartedly with telling people what to improve, it's the only way they'll get better, but after hearing his comments i didn't know where he got his rating on "creativity" from... There were some things bad and good mentioned, but rather than saying "they have lots of common things, minus one" you all might consider an approach more like "well, they have the usual things so that doesn't get em any extra, however i liked <this feature> and <this other feature> so they get a couple points added on for that"

So, lets say we have a server and we're doing the NPCs...
They of course have all the "usual" weapons so for having the brains enough to get them there gives em 1 point (not much required to do this, but 1/10 isn't much either). they have a way for you to get the npc, +1 standing at 2. they all work on the npc server, +1 now at 3. hmm, let's see.. they've got a nice gui, that takes some brains and all the functions work on it to boot, +2 giving them 5. Maybe they have some nice unique weapons or maybe some nice script ganis to do cool things and no lag also, though many of you don't know what a script gani is sadly... they're great things. They'd get another 2 points for good use of code and good effects while they took care of issues that would interfer with players' expleriences. maybe they have good onwall for an npc, or good mouse detect for different screen sizes for some menu or such.... coming down to the "well, this is nice" points and what not, i'd probably give this server a 7.5 for npcs.

I just hope that if one of you gets selected to be PWA that you don't go around handing out points for good effort and try not to let people down too hard. "You tried really hard but you need to do better" isn't going to tell them what they need to whip into shape. It's not your job to be nice, it's your job to help the people with skill get where they need to go and keep out the riff raff

If you have a problem with what i've said send me a forum PM. Please, only post constructive replies. If i agree with an issue you brought to me in a PM i'll post it here with my response/revisitions.

-HoudiniMan