Recently created topics in GameLayers about PMOG

I would like to see some kind of reward for people that create high quality portals. For example a dp reward based on the rating the person who took it gave.
Thus a portal that is rated as 4 could give 2Dp to the opener, while a 5-starred one could give 3 or 4. Lower rating (average and below average) should not give a reward

Possibly punish 1-star average portals somehow to reign in spamming

This idea is so as to give an incentive for people to put more effort into their missions and so that those that do, get rewarded for it.

Currently each mission run gives the player 10Dp. I would like to see it changed so that each mission run gives the creator 3Dp per star rating the runner gives. This way people who just throw a few random pages together and hope for random clicks, will not be getting a lot out of it while high quality missions can get up to 15Dp per run.

Alternatively, reward people who make consistent quality
missions by increasing their rewards:

Lets say that everyone starts with 10dp gain per run on his
missions. After 3 missions created, you could change the DP gained per
run to be relevant to the average rating of all that person's missions
until now. For example:

o Average rating 2-stars:5Dp per run

o Average rating 3-stars:10Dp per run

o Average rating 4-stars:15Dp per run

Of course, it might be even better if you allow your algorithms
to work with decimals, in the background, for a bigger scale, but
that's not so important.
Alternatively, take only the average of the last 5 missions so
that someone who starts off with bad missions can eventually try and
make his average better (by making his newer ones of more quality)
without having to nuke his profile and start all over.

Crossposted from the forum

I would love some way to provide a referral within an url link which that I can post to my webiste whenever I link to PMOG (As I do when, for example, I blog about a new mission)

Currently you can only invite through an email link and you can send the referral code to a friend manually (if you invite an a second email address you own, copy the link from there while remove the email address and giving them that) but it seems to expire after the first time.

There are various ways to go about doing this but the definite thing that should be avoided is a way to make people annoyed. Thus penalties of any sort should be out of the question as they can be abused.

Some ideas include
* Starred Rating: Similar to missions, people would be able to rate a thread or even a post in a thread in a 5-star rating. Having a low rating would not bring a penalty but having a high one would be useful in perhaps assigning badges or perhaps Dp. For example a 4-star rating would give the poster of that a 2 DP reward while a 5 star rating would give a 4 DP reward.
* Simple vote rating. People would be allowed to vote/digg/like a post which might make it easier again to assign badges or DP to the poster
* Thanks: Allow a way to thank a person, similar to the Ubuntu Forums . Once again, a great way to assign badges.

And finally, another cheap way to promote forum participation is by providing badges or DPs on their use. Some ideas:
* Badges based on any of the ideas mentioned above
* Assign badges explicitly in the same way Duels does it, This would not be based on community rating but rather on the whims of the almighty admins

Crosspost from the forum

In the form of "Related Service (Possible name)"

• Google Mail(10^100 Mails)


• Yahoo Mail (Y-Mail!)


• Hotmail (Burning Mailman)


• DeviantArt (Deviant)


• The Pirate Bay (Yarrrr!)


• Last.fm (The Last Musician)


• Ebay (Barterer) - Possibly needs to track the other domains as well such as ebay.de etc


• Technocrati (Technocrat)


• Vampirefreaks (Carpe Noctem)


• Blogger/Blogspot


• Wordpress.com


• The Kingdom of Loathing

Most of there very popular services and certainly much more visited than Perez Hilton and whatnot. I will leave the kind of triggers you want for each badge to the team ;)

Current discussion ongoing in the forum

Is there any way to except the PMOG popups from the CSS of the page? When mission lightposts or portals come up on their colored backgrounds but with the text and links colored and backgrounded to match the CSS of the page, sometimes they're unreadable.

Make it possible to bookmark/direct link to my queued missions, or put the queue in the toolbar.

Not sure where you guys stand on this kind of stuff, but integration with other services (especially Twitter) would be excellent.

A decent API could make such integrations flourish because others (like me) will build them for you :)