Arcade

[FlyingJesus]

Having an opinion is not the same as being right. If lots of people are of the opinion that Mike is a hacker but he states with proof and reasoning that he isn't, the majority are not right just because there are more "opinions" involved. That's the flaw with all of the polling that we do here - we allow it to take over from actual sense

[Lewis]

Do not reset the scores please, I did not spend over a day in total of play time and over 5,000 tries to get 189 on ping pong! And that's not including the other two games, the golf and tennis one.

My blood, sweat and tears have all went into these fantastic games, do not take them away from me!

[The Don]

I'd be furious if the scores were reset. If you think that's suddenly going to get more people playing them (on a consistent basis and not just for the first couple of days) then you're completely wrong.

[Ms.Aquamarine]

I have no interest in playing the Arcade because the scores are stupidly high as you's have been spending years to achieve the scores that you now have. I understand you're obviously going to oppose the idea as you've spent months/years practising the same games to attempt to get a high score. I don't want to play something if it's going to take me a month of mastering, 1000+ plays to attempt to get anywhere near a high score.

You don't know unless you try! I remember Aaiden @Skandair; beat one of my high scores (which did take me quite a while to get), but it didn't take him that long at all! It took effort to do so - winning any of those games take effort.

[Kyle]

Can we have a smaller selection of games


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[nvrspk4]

Ooh someone set a record today. Well done Lewis...though really how do you do well at 2 ball pool...

Anyway, two thoughts on the arcade:

1) I disagree with Kyle, I think that more games is better because there's going to be more games that individuals enjoy playing, and it's harder to reach the kind of inertia you're seeing now. Additionally, getting the number of high scores to show up on the leaderboard is fun, but only for a few people because only so many can be in competition. But the more games you have, the more likely that Member B has a game that he enjoys playing, where the high score is tough to beat but physically possible.

2) In the past (I guess the arcade with security issues) the "Arcade Leaderboard" wasn't solely decided by number of high scores - it was a weighted average of your placing - so 10 points for first, through 10th place for 1 point. This meant that there was much more room to challenge the leaderboard and those interested in the leaderboard could still play games with ridiculous high scores, and just go for a top 10 finish. If we could find a different arcade system with that feature I think it'd be cool.


On another note, much as I enjoy my high scores I won't be devastated if you reset my scores Then again I think adding new games to allow people to challenge leaderboards without taking away the previous scores on old games is the best of both worlds.

[Yupt]

I don't agree with resetting the scores either, just because they're reset are people honestly going to start playing them? Nope. Records are just that, no matter how long they've been there, it's an achievement.

The arcade is a really cute feature that i've only actually, since seeing this thread, used much. If we do anything it should be to create more competition in there even if it isn't for top spot. If people would actually like to use it but find trying to get the record too difficult, would anyone be interested in say a monthly arcade competition? I'm sure I could work something out but i'd only be interested in doing it if I can guarantee people will use it. (It's very annoying when people request or show a liking to our ideas to then never use them).

[scottish]

I don't agree with resetting the scores either, just because they're reset are people honestly going to start playing them? Nope. Records are just that, no matter how long they've been there, it's an achievement.

The arcade is a really cute feature that i've only actually, since seeing this thread, used much. If we do anything it should be to create more competition in there even if it isn't for top spot. If people would actually like to use it but find trying to get the record too difficult, would anyone be interested in say a monthly arcade competition? I'm sure I could work something out but i'd only be interested in doing it if I can guarantee people will use it. (It's very annoying when people request or show a liking to our ideas to then never use them).

Like i've said 18 times in the thread, the idea isn't 'reset score everyone play MAGIC'. It's more than just resetting the score the idea would be to have a complete overhaul of the arcade (scores, games, rewards, publicity etc).

[Lewis]

Ooh someone set a record today. Well done Lewis...though really how do you do well at 2 ball pool...

Anyway, two thoughts on the arcade:

1) I disagree with Kyle, I think that more games is better because there's going to be more games that individuals enjoy playing, and it's harder to reach the kind of inertia you're seeing now. Additionally, getting the number of high scores to show up on the leaderboard is fun, but only for a few people because only so many can be in competition. But the more games you have, the more likely that Member B has a game that he enjoys playing, where the high score is tough to beat but physically possible.

2) In the past (I guess the arcade with security issues) the "Arcade Leaderboard" wasn't solely decided by number of high scores - it was a weighted average of your placing - so 10 points for first, through 10th place for 1 point. This meant that there was much more room to challenge the leaderboard and those interested in the leaderboard could still play games with ridiculous high scores, and just go for a top 10 finish. If we could find a different arcade system with that feature I think it'd be cool.


On another note, much as I enjoy my high scores I won't be devastated if you reset my scores Then again I think adding new games to allow people to challenge leaderboards without taking away the previous scores on old games is the best of both worlds.

You need to constantly use the cigarette break thing at the bottom right to save time

[The Don]

Like i've said 18 times in the thread, the idea isn't 'reset score everyone play MAGIC'. It's more than just resetting the score the idea would be to have a complete overhaul of the arcade (scores, games, rewards, publicity etc).

Your idea is still to reset the score and there's not really any constructive argument in favour of it.