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Yeah, a blanket sweep seems a bit harsh. Especially since that wasn't mentioned at the start.
Unlike Trophies, the Forum Credits can (eventually) be used as a 'currency': I've seen someone selling in-game items for credits. To have all credits then wiped clean, would be a bit like throwing out the baby with the bathwater.

Besides; stat-lovers are quite fond of their numbers.

 

Yea, I've been thinking about offering services for credits as well, and the knowledge of a wipe discourages that.

 

Ty for the hard work Snape

 

Hi Snape. Because I just know you have endless time to spare...
I actually think the configuration of credit awards needs to be tweaked. It seems a little easy to accumulate credits. I have nearly 200 and I'm not sure what I did to deserve that.

 

New users also seam to get a 10 credit bonus that old users didint.

 

Great work snape.

 

Does it make a difference to set a birth date or not? I haven't and don't plan on it.
Also, like some others have already expressed I'd prefer to keep my credits. I don't have a lot compared to others but they are legitimately collected ("reading" almost every thread marked with 'New', posting relevant posts (that some seem to like ) etc).

But if they have to go then they have to go. Just make sure to mark every thread New again so we can "read" them all over to get credits.

 

I dont think ppl set year of birth on 1900 intentionaly.
As is not requred you can leave it blank so maybe system provided a year.
After reading here i checked my data and i had it still just blank as have always been.
Now i filled it with right year.

Maybe this shud be turned as required to force ppl to fill in ?

 

I just want to suggest that we don't stress too much over a system that is not even currently in use (in terms of being able to use credit for in forum benefits). None of us have paid for these credits and if it's not entirely even handed right now well perhaps we should get it in perspective. Everything we get with these credits is effectively a gift from the site owner.

I think if the admins are going to put effort in then the focus should be on:
1. reviewing the current settings (eg the birthday setting) and adjusting so it acts according to the site owners intentions
2. Review the credit amounts of the top credit holders for reasonableness as time permits. Start at the top and work down.
3. Don't be too concerned about making a tough call. That's part of the role of forum admin.

When you eventually start introducing ways to consume credits, start small and conservative to hopefully use up some of the current balance of stockpiled credits. EG don't start with an auction for goods of significant value as that will probably lead to complaints about credits "unfairly obtained".

 

Heh, these birthday settings make me smile, some smart people we got here. I didn't even knew about the birthday bonus. Reminds me to check my own b-day setting and see if it is set right.

 

Ha ha, I was wondering what vast amount of reading people were doing, to get 500 credits in 1 day: mystery solved!
Great work to pinpoint and fix that so fast.
(If a multiplier should ever be returned; maybe it is possible to set it to a default of 20xx, instead of the 19xx it used to be?
Then it would give no (accidental) advantage bonus-wise, for those who didn't fill it in.)

I didn't know there is now a requirement for new members to provide their real DOB.
I guess I'm lucky to have signed up under the 'old' rules.
Since I fall in the category of people who prefer not to disclose RL info.
Even though it has become quite 'normal' to just give away all your personal data everywhere, often for no reason whatsoever.
(E.g. looking up a cookie recipe, should not require my DOB... )

ps.
Out of curiosity: how come some people have negative credits?
You can spend/give more than you have?

 

Thank you for responding.
That's a very sympathetic offer; luckily I personally wont be needing to take you up on it.
But it's great that the option is open for whomever feels the same way.
I like the human approach, instead of by default go with a "them's the rules".

Like I always say when people ask me why I prefer (to live on) Ark:
Caly is bigger, Ark is friendlier.

 

Alerts

1. 
   You get Ω1.00 for Thread get Sticky.
   7 minutes ago
2. 
   You lost Ω9.00 for Thread get Unsticky.
   8 minutes ago

So 1. I bought a shop and made a new thread for it today and got 1 credit for it when it became a "sticky"
then 2. I moved my stuff from my apartment to the shop I bought and so closed the thread that pertained to my apartment, therefore losing 9 credits when that thread got "unstickied"

my response: WHAT? WHAT? WHAT! yes I really said that out loud lol. Although I'm not going to go on some forum rage quit or anything, I'm really feeling that I just got penalized for upgrading from an apartment to a shop :banghead:

Really, I would have just kept a few clothes in my apartment and kept the thread going if I knew that was going to happen

 

I think the best solution to that would be to remove the unsticky penalty altogether. If a thread is unstickied its generally just because its old and has become irrelevant. Right now its being treated like a report which doesn't make much sense. I'm sure Snape will look into it though, probably one of those things like the bday issue that was unknown to everyone.