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rewards for creative animal names?

A couple of folks in the "general" forum suggested I post this idea here, which was prompted by a discussion of boring, repetitive, and/or puerile animal names.

Some had suggested making it possible to see who last named the animal, with the idea that a lack of anonymity might discourage racial-slur names and other unsavouries.

Whether players can see this info or not, if the "namer" could be coded in somehow, perhaps it would be possible to set up a kind of reward system for really good animal names. If a player sees a funny or clever name, they could have the option of "liking" the name--every player would only be allowed one "like" per animal, to avoid vote-flooding--and the player that named the animal could get some kind of reward, like a small increase in energy, mood, or experience. This could lead to an achievement tree as well--say, one for having 3 people like your animal name, one for 11...etc. This would encourage creativity and cleverness, and raise the bar for animal names.

We also thought about adding a deterrent side to this--offensive names could be "disliked", resulting in a loss of energy or mood, for example--but as the conversation thread was showing, people had different ideas about what was offensive...so we figured it was best to stick with a reward-based system, which seemed more in the spirit of Glitch.

(with thanks to my partner in crime, Apathy Explosion, who has been watching avidly, but has yet to actually play a lick of Glitch)

Posted 16 months ago by Voluptua Sneezelips Subscriber! | Permalink

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  • I think having the "namer" visible to all users could lead to a tendency towards pitchforks and mobs.  But I really like the idea of awards for creativity in naming. 

    It does seem to conflict, however, with the ability to rename animals after someone else has named them.  If the scores are visible, there might also be a sabotage problem of people renaming an animal. 

    I'd like to see the best names, I'd like people who come up with good names to get rewards, but I don't want the best named animals renamed by mean people. 
    Posted 16 months ago by WindBorn Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I like the idea better of liking/disliking a name. Or perhaps just liking them with names that aren't liked being unlocked for renaming sooner.
    Posted 16 months ago by Zeezee Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I think getting penalized for people disliking somebody's naming is a bit strong; I'm not so much in favor of aspects of the game that would allow somebody to affect the gameplay of others negatively- we already have people in the caverns that seemingly mine rocks down to the nub and leave them laying around, even though multiple people have made their annoyance at that abundantly clear. Can you imagine if people started running around voting down names just to screw with people's energy/mood? Seems like a "feature" prime for  trolling and petty vindication.
    Posted 16 months ago by Djabriil Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Liking and disliking names of chickens, I'm indifferent to. Don't see much point to it, but don't dislike the idea either. 
      
    Seeing who named it last = A rather large No thank you.  For the reasons mentioned above.  
    Like the other thread said, if someone doesn't like a name, they can change it or get someone with the skills to do it, so who chooses to give something an inappropriate name is not important, as it's not a big deal and easily rectified.  
    There are quite a few people on Glitch who like to berate other users for all kinds of strange reasons, so I'd rather not encourage more of that.  
    Posted 16 months ago by Ebil Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Although I'm a little indifferent to this idea, i do love naming the animals. I am a little perturbed, however, by some people's need to name every animal the same exact thing, making it nearly impossible to differentiate between recently fed/milked/nibbled animals and those yet to be done. These people, perhaps unsurprisingly, also tend to give incredibly boring names... 9_9
    Anyway i wanted to suggest that there should be a limit to the number of animals on a street with the same name. It's not really a big deal but it seems more interesting to have unique animals evwrywhere you look.
    Posted 16 months ago by FlirtyvonSexenhaven Subscriber! | Permalink
  • @djabril
    Exactly re: nixing the voting down -- that's why we thought it could be limited to liking the name. I just figured it was worth mentioning we'd thought about the dislike option and were suggesting against it,  to illustrate why we thought it didn't have merit. Your post strengthens the argument. :)
    Posted 16 months ago by Voluptua Sneezelips Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Whoops, i see my whine was already mentioned numerous times in the other animal names thread. Sorry!!
    Posted 16 months ago by FlirtyvonSexenhaven Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Oh, right on... I think I musta misread earlier- gotcha now, though. Nothing like debating the other side to people who already agree lol.
    Posted 16 months ago by Djabriil Subscriber! | Permalink