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Guest Accounts and Fake Guest Accounts
Fake guests are annoying, and are maybe part of the problem why new players get targeted a lot. I can never tell who is a fake guest and who is a real newbie until a few minutes into game play, but I still forget the numbers if they are similar. So I end up just wiping out all guest players. I was thinking in the main rooms, guest accounts cannot get full power ups. They can play to see how the game looks and what not, but this will pressure players to stop making the fake accounts everyday. It may take the pressure off new players too since most people are targeting all guest accounts as if they are experts. Maybe only allow them to get 2 skates, 5 bombs, 5 flames. New players are the same threat with little power up as if they are with full power ups. This will also prompt them to make a real account sooner than later, and bring them into the community to learn more.
I just figured I'd bring up the thought since I have seen posts saying that new players are constantly driven out from the game being too hard.
I just figured I'd bring up the thought since I have seen posts saying that new players are constantly driven out from the game being too hard.
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I had a few other ideas came up with the separate rooms and anonymous names for the players, but I want to see what other people mention before coming up with too many things.
I have a couple questions:
Why does anyone have to see your rank symbol on the playing field? It's completely unnecessary and rankings are meaningless on the playing field anyway for obvious reasons.
Also, why do we have to know when someone is using a guest account? The game was better when there was no way to distinguish a guest from a normal account in my opinion. No visible rankings on the playing field, and everyone had their own personalized name.
Maybe your rank should be kept private, or at least only visible to others on the dedicated rankings page? This would reduce the need for people to spam alt accounts too. Now I know what you're thinking. People would use guest names for trolling. That's why we have mods though, right? xD There's plently of trolling anyway. The game was just fine and had lots of players when it looked more like this:
There's no way to make the ranking symbol trustworthy because even high rank players could have many alt or guest accounts used. So a one star player could really have the experience of a 3 or 4 star player. The ranking symbol serves no purpose on the playing field. It should be more of a personal accomplishment that others don't need to see on the map.
I think it would be good for the game if there was no way to easily distinguish a guest from a registered account. Let them make their own names (without the ~ symbol too) that can be recycled after they log off of the guest account. This is the internet. Why are people so scared of a few troll names popping up? People make plenty of troll names on registered accounts on US server now anyway.
If there's no way to tell that someone is a guest, there's no reason to ever complain about guests anymore. xD
Hope I portrayed the idea right.
Also, I thought of another idea in addition to what I said above. If someone doesn't want to use a name, they could appear as "unnamed" or "anonymous". It should be an option available to both guests and registered accounts. Just make it so that anonymous people and guests still can't use chat.
The ranking system is such garbage. All it does is discourage people with high ranks from wanting to play on their normal account. It's much better to exploit the system and use lower accounts or guests so that people don't target you as much. Just look at JP and US server. As a result of this, there are fewer and fewer high rank accounts, and a higher percentage of low accounts and guests high on the scoreboard.
This is probably just a waste of time typing about this though. Everyone is happy complaining about things in the game without coming up with logical solutions that have been proven to work (in this game and other more popular browser games). And nobody likes my ideas anyway. Alright, let's just watch the game continue to die in it's current state then! : D
My wife said, that they could make it so all guests and new accounts should stay in the AI or tutorial server, till they reach a certain level. Guests could never come though since they should not level up anyways. This allows them to learn the game without harsh deaths consistently.
I don't mind the ranks that are their. It's like Halo and what not have ranks. Just shows how long you have been playing really. Doesn't need to be displayed during play, but can be in their profile somewhere. Most people know who has played for how long, and I like to go after the big guns cause that is tougher. It is also why I think they should make it so the top players in a round should be worth more points or kills or something like that. Would stop people attacking the players with less of a score. Guy with 50 kills almost every game is obviously targeting easy kills.
There should be an option for both guests and regular accounts to be equally anonymous if they want. The primary purpose of guest accounts should be to either try out the game or play without 'career' stats. Not to have the advantage of being the only anonymous players.
The servers are already split way too much. There's not enough players to keep splitting them even more. A lot of people want to log on and have instant pvp action.
Why does everyone have to see your rank symbol on the playing field?
Why are guest accounts all "~guestxxxxx" instead of being able to have their own personalized name?
Probably no one agrees with me, but I don't see any reason why guests should be given special recognition. I think they should look exactly the same as anyone else on the scoreboard and playing field. The whole point of my screenshot was that you can't tell who is or isn't a guest. None of the names are made to stand out as being a guest, and no ranking symbols were visible either.
The names probably aren't personalized because they where being used to troll and walk around with racist messages.
The next best thing is that they cannot get full power ups till they reach a certain length of game play or rank. Hopefully that will reduce the amount of guests being played by better players and give the new community a chance to experience the game without being murdered constantly.
Excuse_me kinda went over this
But someone can just use a fake account. Rank means absolutely nothing in this game. All it shows is who uses their real account the most. Almost everyone from rank 0-15 is nearly equal in skill level these days. Having a high rank in this game gives you no advantage. Only disadvantages because everyone will either run away from you, or team up to target you. If ranks must be displayed, there should be some advantage to balance it. Maybe there could at least be an option if you want your rank displayed or not? Or an option to play completely anonymously on your account. Why are only guests allowed to be anonymous? They get all of the special treatment for no reason. Guests do nothing to support the game.
It's the internet. Why is everyone here so sensitive to people who troll with names? If you can't handle racist trolls or profanity, you should probably stay far away from the internet. lol People create all kinds of troll accounts as it is anyway. It's called freedom of speech. If people want to make themselves look like a dumba**, why stop them? xD And just the fact that I had to censor that- there's way too much censorship on this game.
I just don't like how guests are given special treatment on this game. I guess guests are infallible. And if anyone questions that, they are automatically an idiot. Maybe everyone should just start spamming fake troll accounts or play as guest just to show how useless the naming and ranking systems are. xD And there's rarely ever a mod on some servers, so you can get away with almost anything >90% of the time.
I try to give helpful tips for the game, based on things that have worked before on this game and continue to work well on other games, but I guess everyone is satisfied with the status quo of the game continuing to decline with fewer and fewer players. No wonder people give up trying to help and just resort to trolling. xD
tldr; guest do have an advantage because of their skill not being able to be gauged.... and it would be nice if ranks did more then just cosmetics, and guest make the hard experience of a new player... even tougher (some players would hunt rookies... now all players do... because they could be any rank
@LazyABB I don't think changing it to Anonz12321 would be that good of a change... it use to be newbie, then people complained that newbie was misleading (if my memories correct) and it was changed to guest - which implies it could be anything
If your upset the devs won't implement your changes, there is kinda a solution
make a bookmark, and inside of it put
javascript: config.shownick=false;
then when you spawn, click the bookmark
the downside to this is... you will probably kill your friends if they aren't wearing their usual skin, but I'm sure they'll understand
I still think the best option is to restrict Guest accounts and New accounts to the monster area and team area only. This will give new players a sample of the game and learn. Would also prevent players from constantly creating new accounts and switching up guest numbers every round.
Interesting.
Not saying you should have posted in that one or anything, I just think it's indicative of the kind of wishy-washy moderation that runs this place.
FWIW, I agree with the idea of changing up how anon registered players work.
The current catch-all method is kinda crap lol.