Indeed.

But an interface (loosely used) like suggested would be neat if possible, especially those that hold contests where they use voting to determine winner and not a couple of people's judgment, although those probably will still exist.

Most things in the MMO world that is common these days have been invented by a player at some point in time. And it would be very fitting for a game that is "by the community for the community".
Plus probably will cut down on "rip off contest" AKA "You win but sorry kid no money. False advertising to get people to come. ha ha."

Comicsluvr wrote:

jag40 wrote:
Indeed.
But an interface (loosely used) like suggested would be neat if possible, especially those that hold contests where they use voting to determine winner and not a couple of people's judgment, although those probably will still exist.
Most things in the MMO world that is common these days have been invented by a player at some point in time. And it would be very fitting for a game that is "by the community for the community".
Plus probably will cut down on "rip off contest" AKA "You win but sorry kid no money. False advertising to get people to come. ha ha."

I never once saw this happen.
I find it disconcerting that after 5 years of play amounting to THOUSANDS of hours I seldom saw the bad behavior I keep hearing people talk about. What...did everyone get burned once and never forget? There is no way I could have been lucky enough to bypass this...

not once seen it happen a bunch of times. Even one person went to the forums to warn against the certain group that was doing this on the virtue server. They got flamed pretty hard and told to quit whining about a CC. But not too often either. Personally seen it four times on virtue from issue 4-11, three times on freedom i7-20 and 8 times on virtue i14-20. That just the ones that refused to give money up that I personally was there to witness. Now there have been word of more.

Now the other stuff like the teleport thing and rigged contest, seen countless times. I ended up in a SG that had a habit of rigging CCs they held. They would pick a name of person down the list in the SG by date of who got their first and who is on at the time of the scheduled CC which is usually scheduled with the person that is chosen to win prior to the public announcement. They show up, they go through the motion and give the prize to the person that have been pre selected. And sometimes so people didn't get wise, they had the person create or choose an alt that isn't in the SG yet to give the prize to.

Then there were some that seemed suspect, same SG, same winner each time who just so happen to be in the SG or the winner of certain SG is always an SG member. But not including that here. Just the ones that I personally know about.

It happens. Of course there will be some people that haven't seen hardly a profanity in COX, but there are some people that seen all types of stuff, and wondering how in the world can they be so unlucky to run across seemingly all the idiots in COX of course they have been told to shut up and or assumption been made it was their fault and telling them(the unlucky one) they did not experienced anything of the such because they personally didn't see it. Which looking back probably didn't help the their view at all when people tell them that their (the unlucky one)experience is totally invalid because they (the responder) didn't experienced it in their X amount of years (usually seemed to be someone claiming to been playing since beta) and thus it was impossible for the person (the unlucky one) to experience what they said they experienced.

Some stuff that I haven't even seen done or knew people could do but heard other people say Like the teleporting someone into the blue room or space. Never personally seen it but doesn't mean it never happened.
Kind of like if someone said they rarely come across friendly people in their X amount of years playing and thus there is no way other people came across that many friendly people. I guess people that have indeed come across friendly people and say they have and refute the point, based on their own experience, that friendly people are indeed common. Experience is key Experience. Maybe they haven't seen many friendly people, and maybe that is the reason why someone else hardly seen unfriendly people. Because they are busy badgering the other guy :D

But besides that, I also think that feature could allow CC to run smoother and potentially add an extra type of way for contest to be decided. Voting of the people- in a more easier and harder to tamper with manner. And probably would save time on both ends because usually the actual contest takes about what 30 min looking at the costumes and deciding, but the setup from the time can take an hour itself from the time to people arrived to figuring out who is in and who is out, and who is who, and transferring the currency over, and etc. Of course yea yeah well sitting around for that amount of time is part of the fun". Of course it is, and they can still do so if they choose but if say they want to run one or don't want to sit around for long time doing it the old fashioned way, there is a UI that can streamline the process. Never know, might start a revolution of costume contest UI in other games. Hey everything started somewhere from the power trays, to powers that have recharge time, to animating the actual attacks. Which mostly been attributed to fantasy games. Why not invaded the innovation realm that have been ruled for years by fantasy games, and put a super hero stamp on it.