A suggestion to recognize players

USTTech

Another MMO that I play periodically is WoW ( World of Warships, not what you thought huh?)
One thing about the battles is that they are almost all PuGs, with a few clan (In essence guild) players. A feature the devs have introduced is karma points.
In essence, a player can 'compliment' another player, up to 7 a day. These compliments are all click based, and you can compliment a player for various things such as, "plays well", "helpful", "kind in chat" etc. These 'points' are kept track of, so a player can see how the world sees them.
There are some players in ESO PuGs that I would not compliment for their behavior, but there are a great number I would. These people would have in essence 'good karma.' Granted, other people cannot see the karma points a person has, just the player, and the grand overseers of the game.
On the flip side a person can 'report' a player for misbehavior in chat, being a..
Non-kind person etc. Their karma points can never go below zero, but they could lose karma points if they were built up.
The main point of this is just to give kind players a way to see that their actions are recognized as such.
I was just thinking something like this could be implemented to in essence thank people who are helpful and kind.

EDIT: okay, with no downvoting

AlienatedGoat

I don't want a Reddit ESO.

Minyassa

My first reaction to this was "nice idea." My second reaction to this was "trolls would find a way to abuse and ruin it in about half a day."

imnotanother

Phage wrote: »

I don't want a Reddit ESO.

Downvote!

AlienatedGoat

imnotanother wrote: »

Phage wrote: »

I don't want a Reddit ESO.

Downvote!

Minyassa wrote: »

My first reaction to this was "nice idea." My second reaction to this was "trolls would find a way to abuse and ruin it in about half a day."

Literally why I don't want it.

Reddit is a cesspool of downvote fairies. It's where free thought goes to die.

We have enough trolls in the game without introducing Reddit downvote culture. They will take it, and run with it.

Nightfall12

Oh you don't do 1234bamizillon DPS to carry me through this vet dungeon that i clicked the scroll of glorious bickering for, all the while as I don't do anything to help you…..downvote.


yeah those people are out there lurking in the group finder



if there was a way to make it troll proof i'd love it.

Guarlet

I think 'complimenting' or some method of applauding a player wouldn't be too bad of an idea. Would be a nice, friendly action that could add a little bit of cheer to random runs. None of that downvoting stuff though.

Armatesz

I've seen this same thing in some other games and each time it was abused. I am curious if there is a way to make it succeed without heavy abuse.

ArchMikem

USTTech wrote: »

Another MMO that I play periodically is WoW ( World of Warships, not what you thought huh?)

World of Warships is a team based multiplayer limited to, what, 12 players each team, not an MMO.

Hvzeda

Interesting idea but that system can be gamed. People will up their friends or guild mate reputations and reputation will be something that will be used exclude people. 'You need to have a certain level of reputation in order to do trials.' I know this isn't want you were planing to happen but it will be used in this way.

JamieAubrey

No lol see the 3rd bottom line in my sig, I'd be -1000000000 points