I don't fire people that does things. Because you can be 100% that if I refuse anyone that made a mistake to make anything anymore for FAF, it will be long dead.
Nobody is paid, and there is no QA team, except the players. During the balance period, you can check any change made.
Your mistake for not doing it.
If you think you can make a better job, do it. It's open sourced for a reason.
I'm not saying people should be fired in this exact instance. I'm saying you need to "motivate" them ... angrily.
As for participating in balance - what's the point? Everytime a balance rotation comes around, I think of small tweaks that can be made - and I post them, but they aren't very "sexy" - however in the next thread over, somebody with reasonable name recognition or just some persistence can come in with some cool sounding change that does absolutely nothing for balance. In politics, it's called pork-barrelling - here I think it's just pandering. Simply put, balance changes that appeal to players partiality will outcompete those that benefit the community as a whole. If you want an example of it in practise, just watch literally any election.
I would never subject a team I assembled to work under such conditions.
"General prevention uses the punishment of the offender to prevent others from committing crimes. It has been argued that sending an offender to prison has three effects.
Firstly through fear of suffering a similar fate to the offender, the general public is deterred from committing similar crimes [Lessnoff, 1971:141].
Secondly, by sending on offender to prison, a proclamation is issued specifying that it is morally wrong to disobey the law.
Lastly, “with fear or moral influence as the intermediate link...unconscious inhibitions against crime...establishes a condition of habitual lawfulness” [Andenaes, 1974:8]."
I couldn't find the study I was looking for (I read it like in 07) - but if the threat of punishment for wrong doing is in place - people will work harder to not make simple mistakes.
Nobody is paid
Just because players aren't remunerated does not mean they do not they do not receive rewards from their work. Simply, they are paid in rating. Just curiously - do you have access to the rating stats of balance team members - (well ofc you do) - I wonder what happens when we cross reference their performance since they joined the balanced team.
I'm not sure why you tried to pull a fast one here. 538 players is the vast majority of FAF? That's your total sample size. Last player record
"8192PlayForFun 3"
According to Wolfram Alpha your sample size is about 6.5% of the FAF population. So the question is: Did you make that argument in good faith? Pick careful now son.
Never saw that. Or it's a part so small it's irrelevant.
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Source?
I'm not going to put others in it - but how do you expect me to source chat, and expressed opinions? I fully believe members of the community are capable of speaking for themselves. Others have just resigned themselves to it, as they feel expressing dissent will get them banned. Which it does. (why isn't exivo a mod anymore? Prey tell, where is ToeJams? BulletMagnet? Karottenrambo? FunkOff? DilliDalli? ... you get my drift by this point).
Oh and do you know what I hear in chat from IceDreamer - that Zock wants to "nerf snowball economy" by rebalancing mexes? Are you even aware of what they are getting up to? Oh and interestingly enough not only do these balancers think that they are the first to come up with this stuff - but they ignore all previous forum discussions on the matter.
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I don't think you quite understand but a lot of players are seeing the writing on the wall. It's up to you if you want to keep your head in the sand.
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I think you need a serious reality check.
Head in the sand it is then?
The reason why my team didnt get as many votes was because the two other teamleaders were Zock and Blackheart. High rating doesn't mean you can balance the game or manage a project of this size. Unequivocally though my team had the very best modders - 75% of the other teams couldn't/cannot even code.
I don't think any of your change is in FAF, if you did any.
Sparky. Do you think you should be managing this project if you cannot remember simple things like that? I'm kidding, I know you remembered - you just lie to undermine me, because I don't know, you're insecure or something.Statistics: Posted by Anaryl — 07 Apr 2014, 16:30
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I am pretty sure I did build a bunch. But at a stage where I had a power output of ~50K / s, so I didn't really notice the huge "windfall" of 200 energy per second saved, lol.