Enforcement will not be an issue on fan shards
Posted: Thu May 26, 2011 6:00 pm
Topic spin off from this post
I do not know of and did not see enforcement as a problem for fan shards in the past, now or in the future.
Enforcement on the fan shards back in Until URU days was really quite good. There usually was someone with the authority online most of the time. Most fan shards were not wide open either. You usually had to go through the shard’s owner & operator to acquire login authentication through the shard's forum. One's every movements can be and will be monitored by one or more Shard Admins. Trust me on this one. Who is bad and who is good is up the fan shard owners & operators and the word on malcontents was and is past around at the speed of light. Just look at the number of shards (75+) there were during and after UU. Enforcement for fan shards was obviously not a problem.
List of shards past & present on my fanboy shard page.
http://www.jamercer.com/uu/semplers_shards.htm
Yes, I totally agree that enforcement on the MOULa shard will be difficult because of how it is owned & operated.Nalates wrote:Finding some reasonable way to enforce rules and standards is a problem that extends beyond the Uru community. Other game communities are looking for solutions. An example is in an article titled: Pricing Games According to Player Behavior
The title says most of it. The surprising part is that Valve boss Gabe Newell is looking at adopting it for Valve.
Of course they are running a pay for play service and have enforcement leverage not available in MOULa and fan shards. But, this shows a trend to use ties to behavior to some enforcement/reward system. Problem players would be at a disadvantage and popular players would be rewarded.
As the author points out the big problems with such an idea are in deciding who's good and bad. Automated systems making the decision are consistently gamed. Santa is otherwise occupied and his elves are busy trying to unionize. A labor intense process is about all that is left.
I do not know of and did not see enforcement as a problem for fan shards in the past, now or in the future.
Enforcement on the fan shards back in Until URU days was really quite good. There usually was someone with the authority online most of the time. Most fan shards were not wide open either. You usually had to go through the shard’s owner & operator to acquire login authentication through the shard's forum. One's every movements can be and will be monitored by one or more Shard Admins. Trust me on this one. Who is bad and who is good is up the fan shard owners & operators and the word on malcontents was and is past around at the speed of light. Just look at the number of shards (75+) there were during and after UU. Enforcement for fan shards was obviously not a problem.
List of shards past & present on my fanboy shard page.
http://www.jamercer.com/uu/semplers_shards.htm