outta my way people
nice work team!In post 0, Eddie Cane wrote:Suggestion #2: track replace outs, and punish people who do it for non-documented reasons multiple times. A temporary ban on joining new games for a time period is good. If you want to allow redemption, let replacing into a game and playing it to completion, or maybe even mod a game to completion, count as community service hours or what have you.
so I kind of like, coincidentally already kind of track replace-outs which go through my queue. i also just tend towards celebrating those who do the right thing (rather than punishing those who don't) by nature. if we have a site policy shift towards punishing replace-outs i can help with that. i think this would be a great change.
in fairness to the subject i enthusiastically agree that every single replacement is a hefty blow against the game's integrity. sometimes one blow sends it crashing down. sometimes it survives ten by some miracle, but looks so shit at the end that nobody is actually impressed. sometimes (truly rare cases), it improves the quality of a game.
but basically yeah. a culture of excessive replacements is a culture where almost no part of a game is fun. scumming in particular becomes a huge pain in the ass, and townies learn absolutely nothing by being carried by a lategame replacement. the dream would be no replacements. not achievable, but we could be a lot closer than we are.
tangentially: while i'm writing this i'm wondering if i could do a large statistical study on the rate of replacements per game (e.g. are there an average of 5 replacements per 13p game?) per real life day (do we have one replacement per game per week?) but having actual accurate results is kind of outside the scope of my queue. if people would be potentially interested in helping out with the sheer admin of this kind of study hmu. this is probably manually poring through game mod ISOs to find replacement notices, which is unfortunately often how i update my spreadsheet. it's not for the faint of heart, or people who like, enjoy going outside or having hobbies or w/e
but yeah, constructively: if there's intent to enforce this in a serious fashion it would be very easy for me to contribute to the effort. i'm just kind of too lazy to write up a suggestion, or project manage a solution.