Proposal: Preventing Infinite Point Scams
Passes 10-5, +2 points to arth—arthexis
Adminned at 19 Oct 2009 12:39:00 UTC
Add a new sub-rule “Speed Limit” to rule “Points”:
No Player can have their score absolutely increased by more than 30 during a single day (which is defined as a 24 hour period starting at midnight UTC). If a Player’s score would be absolutely increased by more than 30 during a day, their score is instead increased by the maximum amount which doesn’t cause their score to be absolutely increased by more than 30 that day (this can be zero).
This can make a future win condition based on points work as intended, giving us a window to patch the loophole before the player goes infinite. Also note that the tracked increase is absolute, so if someone loses ten points, then they can win up to 40 that day.
, because there may be legitimate rules that award, say, 40 points directly for some major accomplishment. I also do not want to keep track of buffering several large point gains in the same day out across the next 72 hours, nor open the possibility of flushing someone else’s point gain from a proposal by crediting it to them immediately after they gain 30 points from something else.
It’s a tricky area, as you’re also preventing players from being too active in different strands of the game. I’d go for something a little higher than 30, but we’ll see how it goes.
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redtara: they/them