[MUD-Dev] Re: A little help

[chris at realm.zfn.uni-bremen.de]

Greetings

Hans-Henrik Staerfeldt wrote:
> 
> An alternative that i have yet to see tried out would be a listing
> of everything a person have contributed to the game. Such a listing
> would also be a 'virtual lollipop', but much less meaningless since
> it gives the contributor some social status directly derived from
> the work done. Also you'd not get into problems such as 'why does
> buffy get an admin level for doing xxx, when buffo didn't get one 
> for doing yyy .. that unfair!'. If anyone have had experiences with
> this kind of reward (other than monetary) in a multi contributions 
> virtual world, i'd very much like to know.
> 
> 
  In my current MUD, the Realm of Magic, we have a certification system.
Higher Immortals of at least Admin-rank, are able to certify lower immortals
for their work, and this certification needs to be approved by another
Admin. In theory, this should result in a list of who did what. However
there have been some obstacles as of now:

- we couldn't take past work into consideration as their is no reliable
  way to recall everything an immortal did.

- some admin simply 'forget' to certify lower level immortals who worked
  for same...be it because they are currently too busy, or be it because
  they simply forgot to do so.

  The later reason is probably due to the fact, that the certification
system is still somewhat new. An entry of it looks something like this:

| 999H 456M 816V > show certifications owner christian
Certifications owned by christian
Nr.  Name          God1          God2          Time       Reason
----------------------------------------------------------------
1    Christian     Highlander    Criscal       Fri Jan 23 Coding of the
                                                          certification-system
[..]

This is the short or technical info of a certificate.

  Additionally to the technical info, the god who issues the certification
has to write a little laudatio. The laudatio is a little text that
will tell in 'great words' what the lower immortal achieved. A special item
type 'CERTIFICATION' is then 'bound' to the laudatio and can then be kept
as trophy (your lollipop :) ) by the lower immortal.
 
  Again, in theory this might be great, but it still lacks the broad
acceptance by the admin-rank immortals, who still don't use it as they
e.g. use the 'poofin' (or whatever) command.

- Chris

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