UPDATED

Due to program error, this has been replaced with receiving 500 credits every 50 posts.

No. Times 50 posts Achieved

RayCaptain - 1
EbeneezerAl - 1
lewy - 6
Jin-Ho - 3
Taves - 1
Christoper Enyar - 3

Cool addition. I'm assuming our existing posts count as well?

1460 points already. Not too much longer ^_^

Yes existing posts count. If anyone had been over the 2000 mark, apart from Anakin and myself, we would've automatically updated their credits amount. But no one is there quite yet. The closest to it is RayCaptain I believe.

That's a realy clever arrangement, Padmé!!

I guess it makes people wanting tp post more and better, which as I see it can only be a good thing.

nize... :D (besides I have done it 5 times... :P )

UPDATE: We have discovered an error in the experience points system. At the moment, the only person effected is myself as I have over 1000 posts. It seems that over that amount, the points no longer continue. We will try to find a way to resolve it, if not then we will think of another system, probably based on post count as it will be identical to the experience points system concerning how much you post.

I think the experience caps out at 99,999, since after that it seemed to have reset itself.

Couldn't this be fixed by just cutting a zero off of the XP multiplier? As in, you get 10 XPs per post as opposed to 100? You'd get bonus cash every 500 (as opposed to 5000) XPs and the like, but it'd solve the problem up until someone reaches 10,000 posts, right?

Yes that would work but we would need to take account of everyone's credit amount, just in case something were to go wrong. But yes what you suggested is probably the best thing.

Tried changing the code as Jin-Ho suggested, but it seems that it is dependent on the number of posts a member has. So whenever anyone goes above 1000 posts, their experience points will be cleared. So due to this, and trying to correct it but failing, we have removed the system.

Instead you will receive 500 credits every 50 posts. Which was how it was functioning anyway. So the members don't loose out.

Since I'm back, I need to be added to the 50 post list :D

I think the money system will have to be changed too, cause I can't remember when that was updated...best is to calculate your experience points by the amount of posts you have...So yeah you have 60 points, so you were entitled to have 500, but I think you already received that...once you have 100 you'll get more.

Just earned my second 500 credits and it has been added to my funds

Question from 'the new guy who asks and digs and suggests and asks' ;) :

Wouldn't a system where you're rewarded for posting a lot eventually backfire when/if you

a.) get players that posts a lot for the purpose of posting a lot

or

b.) get players that posts few, but good posts?

The extreme cases of a.) is prohibted through the application process, but the clever ones get around it with semi-useful replies to just about anything. I've been on far too many forums with various advantages for a lot of posts to know that if it can be abused, it will be abused by someone. I'm not saying it will occur (or are occuring), I'm just waving a flag - you know, better safe than sorry and all that.

and any players in the situation in b.) would indeed be penalized. (I, for one, am likely to fall into such a category simply because I'm prone to fall into a pattern of posting that's on a week basis rather than a day basis after a while)

Now, it seems the administrators got a lot of info about everything around here, so things would/could be regulated, but the system looks pretty automated to me, that's just all. While it encourages posting, it doesn't say anything about what those posts contain, does it?

Well, anyway, just asking :)

Well I don't think we use experience points anymore anyway. We used to have a system built in the forum that counted XP by the amount of posts, but then errors occurred. Now it's best that the players play by salary that they get every week. Or yeah for bounty hunters how much money they get by mission.

I see. I haven't really been able to place all the rules updates in a chronological way yet, so I wasn't quite sure what you were sticking to at the moment.