Hello Everyone,
Was thinking today about how ideas are brought up.
IDEA: enable a means to refine proposals for items, skills or anything else so they are "not" as overpowered, (yes I have had some myself) due to pure ignorance of what has worked and been approved in the past.
CRITERIA:
From observation the following areas seems to be factors (yes, I know this is not an all inclusive list and other criteria may get used in its place):
1) Potency: the strength of an item or skill based on it's purpose. (e.g. add +10% to Arrow Storm)
2) Availability: which characters and classes is the skill and/or item available too. (e.g. Classes vs. Class & Class vs. sub-classes)
3) Occurrences: how likely is the ability of said skill/item to happen. (e.g. very low, 0.1%, chance to occur vs. 2% occurrence)
4) Correlation: does this correlate to another aspect for which it is intended. This one can be tricky since flaws can be found this way which could overpower skills in which it was not intended for.
SUMMARY:
Looking at this in a similar fashion to a stat build for a character, let's say you get 100 pts. The more you put in one category the less you have for those other areas. The submitter could answer a few questions within each category. In the end, a score would be given determining how overpowered the item or skill "could be." At the end it would give a spectrum break-out for the submitter of where their idea(s) lie at.
For example:
1) 10%
2) 30%
3) 60 %
4) 20 %
* it would flag any areas which would lead the 100pts/% to be over 100. I have to think there are times when folks submit things and do not realize how lop-sided the suggestion is. This would help mitigate that and possible ensure any area does not go over XX%.
Example: your skill or item is 120 Pts/120%, please adjust in order to conform to a total of 100 pts/%.
This would not be intended as a "silver bullet." It would be used to refine suggestions before they are submitted. Please think of it as a sanity check before submission. The tool could be hosted through iRO or off a secondary website depending on who would want to control it.
IN CONCLUSION: the criteria would be based on feedback from the community and any other RO applicable staff. Sure, developing the criteria would be the most difficult part. In the end, when a proposal comes through we could ask, "Did you run it through the checker?" Finally, this is just an idea to try and simplify, streamline and encourage consistency as much as possible.
Just some thoughts.
Edited by Sladeero, 27 July 2015 - 09:08 AM.