Quote:
Originally Posted by TC_Halogen
How about coming up with a point system that can combine each and every aspect together so that having a portion of all three can satisfy the veteran requirement?
ex: obtain 4,500 points
forum post: +1 for every two posts
account length: +750 per year
game: +1 per every 5,000,000 gts
etc.
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Change time to per day, make GTS worth a little more, add a few more game stats, and it's perfect.
Time's worth a lot, game returns a lot, and posts alone won't get you there.
Code:
Vet: obtain 4,500 points
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posts: +1 for every two posts (+250 per 500)
time: +2 per day (+730 per year)
game: +1 per every 4,000,000 gts (+250 per bil)
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token: +10 per token (1,370 cap)
AAA: +3 per AAA (2,301 cap)
FC: +0.5 per FC (384 cap)
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total possible from skill: 1370+2301+384 = 4,055
Now, let's see some stats.
XCV (2 years / reclusive / semi-active / beginner)
posts: 16 = 8
time: 2 years = ~1,400
game: 1 billion = 250
token: 45 = 450
AAA: 4 = 12
FC: 123 = 62
TOTAL ~2,250
Vet? 0
TomatoShadow (4 years / reclusive / semi-active / amateur)
posts: 137 = ~50
time: 4 years = ~2,900
game: 7.5 bil = ~1,900
token: 55 = 550
AAA: 23 = ~50
FC: 565 = ~300
TOTAL ~5,800
Vet? 1
Mulie (1.8 years / semi-social / active / amateur)
posts: 140 = 70
time: 1.8 years = ~1,300
game: 5.8 bil = ~1,500 (just another ~200 games :< )
token: 80 = 800
AAA: 10 = 30
FC: 280 = 140
TOTAL ~3,800
Vet? 0
DotKritic (1.5 years / post whore / doesn't play)
posts: 1200 = 600
time: 1.4 years = ~1,000
game: 7 mil = 2
token: 10 = 100
AAA: 0 = 0
FC: 10 = 5
TOTAL ~1,700
Vet? 0
Etylukah (1.5 years / social / very active / elite / not vet ??)
posts: 454 = ~220
time: 1.54 years = ~1,100
game: 17 bil = 4,250
token: ~130 = 1,300
AAA: 603 = ~1,800
FC: 766 = ~400
TOTAL 9,000
Vet? 1
Leonid (2.1 years / post whore / very active / elite / not vet ??)
posts: 4100 = ~2,000
time: 2.1 years = ~1,500
game: 18 bil = 4,500
token: 135 = ~1,400
AAA: 710 = ~2,100
FC: 740 = ~400
TOTAL ~11,900
Vet? 1
devonin (6.6 years / social / doesn't play / not vet ??)
posts: 7700 = ~3,900
time: 6.6 years = ~4,800
game: 2.4 bil = 600
token: 84 = ~800
AAA: 35 = ~100
FC: 248 = ~100
TOTAL ~10,300
Vet? 1
edit
Actually, since the point is to calculate for the Vet threshold, AAAs and FCs would need to be worth a lot more, otherwise they'd be meaningless.
It's easy but tedious to earn 200+ AAAs without gaining GTS. So it might be more reasonable to say, like, 5 per AAA and 1 per FC. Then someone with 200ish AAAs and 500ish FCs earns 1500 from skill, at which point they'd almost be breaking the threshold through gaming alone.
More advanced people would earn a comparably obscene amount of points, but they more than deserve Veteran anyway. Take Dragon Shot / Velocity as an example. While making his new account (Velocity), he should be able to earn well over 4,500 points, grabbing vet almost exclusively with tokens, FCs and AAAs.
As for posts: Halogen balanced posts so you'd have a very hard time passing for Vet with them alone, even if you're a post whore with 2.34 posts per day, every day since inception, like Dot Kritic. With posts alone, you'd need a considerably higher posting rate. And with that many posts you'd be either banned, have an old account, or be well-established and accepted by the community.