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Similar to duels, games you pay to enter, and can gain points from winning or getting alternate endings.

I'm not in favour. This would mean that guests, who don't have points, can't play certain games. Besides, it would be too easy to farm points off of this. 

Furthermore, where would the point rewards come from? The author's point total?         

Maybe there could be a bot made for this. Also, maybe players could only be awarded for the same thing once. So, though they could replay the game they won't get additional points the second time around.

What if you had it so these games are only available for a certain time, to stop farming. And If you aren't signed in somehow make it free to play, for guests? is that even a possible option that the site is capable of doing?

That actually wouldn't be hard in my opinion.

I am somewhat interested in a means to include points in a story, since that would mean that points would actually be relevant to the site and penalties would actually mean something. But, I don't think restricting games or parts of games is the way to go about rewarding the hard work of earning points, nor the hard work involved in getting to the ending of some games. Games should be the full experience. Don't become CoG.

Who's CoG?

CoG

I agree with most of that. Right now, my points just kind of mean I have a cool title. As the points currently are rather...pointless, most people don't really care about getting them or worry about penalties. If they meant something, that would make point penalties actually impactful, and it would make people read more stories in an attempt to get points. :P

I don't agree that doing this would make us like CoG though. CoG makes you PAY for the games with real money. On the other hand, if we do this, points can be achieved through reading stories, daily points, and helping around...and you wouldn't have to pay real money for them.

It would make duels more high stakes to. It would prompt people to do them more.

Making duels an important part of CYS is something I'm not quite okay with xD

I just realized something...we should implement the "unpublishing will take away 15 points" thing if we did this, because otherwise people will spam stories to gain points...

Oh god, EndMaster would love that :) I feel like he would get joy from punishing people, especially if it's something that matters taken from them.

He would xD
I feel like there should be a scale for removing points...

By that, I mean, if the story seems to have some effort put in it, it should just be a 10 point penalty.

If it was just flat out atrocious/doesn't follow the format of a storygame, it should be a full 15 point penalty.

@DarkOverlord

Want to provide some feedback on this? XD

Nah, I wouldn’t be in favor of a taking away points if you unpublish stuff since sometimes even the good authors do that in order to fix bugs and make minor tweaks. Maybe it would be different if you could fix your story without having to unpublish.

In fact I’d argue that the best thing about being an admin is that you can go into your own story and edit it without going through the hassle of unpublishing.

We’re already coming up with the idea for future contests of a betting system being in place.

Basically if you want to participate in a contest, you bet a certain amount of points. If you fail to submit a story for the contest, you lose those points. If you submit a story and lose, you get the points back. If you win, then you double them.

(Something like that anyway, we'll probably have it more defined for next contest, whenever that is.)

I don't mean unpublishing by the author. I mean when an admin/mod has to unpublish/delete a story. I remember a few yearsish ago, there was that one guy who spammed with 11 stories or so. Jeff, I think?

 

And oh! Yeah, I saw that on Bucky's thread. I think it's a good idea. However, there is the fact that people might be intimidated by that, and not participate. But I still like it :3

Oh, if they were doing that, I'd probably just ban them at that point. Lol.

True xD

Imagine if every story cost points for the full experience. You would have to read fragments of several stories to find the other endings. The system would be broken, you'd make incomplete read-throughs of stories just to find the rest of other stories that you're interested in. The guy who says "YOU THINK MY PLOT SUCKS BUT YOU WEREN'T EXPERIENCED ENOUGH TO GET TO THE TRUE ENDING!" would become the new "YOU CAN'T COMMENT NEGATIVE BECAUSE THIS IS MY FIRST STORYGAME". It would be arguably worse than CoG, because you can't even save yourself the trouble by paying with real money.

I'd say something like an in-game-achievement or Contribution-recognition-system would be good, since you get cool shit on your profile for doing cool shit, and having that taken away would bite ass, but introducing a point economy, or making it cost points for the full experience of a game, would arguably compromise the rest of the site.

Gating off parts of a game unless readers paid points would be stupid, on a number of levels.

Points as a reward for reaching certain endings or as an achievement, yeah, that might be kind of cool. (Well, in a theoretical scenario where updates ever happened to this site, or points were useful for anything in the first place...)

Fanstory.com was a writing site I used to be a member of that handled their point system the best, IMO. You got a point for reviewing, and when you wrote you could use those points to buy tags to attach to your stories that lasted X amount of days and would make them more visible and reward people extra points for reviewing.

There was also a sort of banner ad system you could buy into that was always popping up story links while readers would browse.

Haven't been there in several years so it may have changed some but it was a good little economy going on, all aimed at getting authors more feedback for their work.

That's amazing as hell, but I feel like our site is a little bit too tiny and dormant for something like that. I mean, unless the story's years old and sort of fell into obscurity, it's probably about as talked about in the first week of its publication as it's going to be until someone else says something about it years or months later.

True, but maybe updates to the site would bring in more users and prompt dormant ones to become more active.

You must be new to this subforum!

yeah actually, that's my point. Three people have joined this site in the last week from my school alone.

The thing about Alexp, is that he is an incomprehensible, 4th dimensional being that lies sleeping in his non-euclidean tomb in an underwater city south of Hawaii. Every few thousand years, he will arrive to post once, though the cultists would have you know that he's also making very slow progress on some things, and the professors would have you know that he's dead and won't come back, the fact of the matter is that there hasn't been a new thing added mechanically since the New Reply notification and the Thread-watching shit, and the prospects of a new update are grim.

Then again, that is not dead which can eternal lie...

I really like that idea, but then again a whole bunch of people would use it for quick points for themselves.