Okay so like. I spent a whole lot of time reading the entire page, getting help from lovely friends, and going through the mod plurk just to understand it. So I get it now in some part, but it still seems so overly (and in many ways unnecessarily) complicated, and will undoubtedly seem ridiculous to new players. My issue is not so much the base ac, but the steps for getting bonuses. Now like, I know it's optional! I don't have to do it!! But the rewards system in this game is neat and I like some of the rewards offered, especially the unlocking of locations and such. But actually getting points for the rewards is getting bogged down by little details here and there that makes it difficult, and the bonus system looking undesirable for me at the moment.
I get that logs should be worth more than network threads, and I appreciate that you guys want to reward us for our hard work and writing a lot of action and/or prose! But I keep noticing that things get added on rather than actually changed, making both the info post and the ac form longer and longer every time something new happens to ac. Honestly it took me way too long to understand that you have to multiply your log thread comment count by 3 to get your bonus points from that one thread. I confess I have a mental disorder that severely impairs my ability to work with numbers and do math, so "3 points/comment" made absolutely no sense until I realized "/" meant "per". But even that doesn't make much sense in the way that portion of the post was worded, because at first glance it seemed like you meant each comment in a log thread was worth 3 points. It's just one of the many things that is super confusing with the post.
Many things in that page could be clarified (such as an open toplevel being 10 points, and that the threads coming from it will be weighed separately), or simply made concise. Others could be done away with or changed up to be simplified, such as the process of extracting bonus points from base AC if the comment count is over 20. There's already so much mathing in the bonuses, especially for those with a bajillion threads to offer up, and it's gotten rather tedious, even with a calculator on hand. But to be honest I'm not even sure where to start with suggestions to help out with that because like. I'm still having trouble understanding every little thing, unfortunately.
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I get that logs should be worth more than network threads, and I appreciate that you guys want to reward us for our hard work and writing a lot of action and/or prose! But I keep noticing that things get added on rather than actually changed, making both the info post and the ac form longer and longer every time something new happens to ac. Honestly it took me way too long to understand that you have to multiply your log thread comment count by 3 to get your bonus points from that one thread. I confess I have a mental disorder that severely impairs my ability to work with numbers and do math, so "3 points/comment" made absolutely no sense until I realized "/" meant "per". But even that doesn't make much sense in the way that portion of the post was worded, because at first glance it seemed like you meant each comment in a log thread was worth 3 points. It's just one of the many things that is super confusing with the post.
Many things in that page could be clarified (such as an open toplevel being 10 points, and that the threads coming from it will be weighed separately), or simply made concise. Others could be done away with or changed up to be simplified, such as the process of extracting bonus points from base AC if the comment count is over 20. There's already so much mathing in the bonuses, especially for those with a bajillion threads to offer up, and it's gotten rather tedious, even with a calculator on hand. But to be honest I'm not even sure where to start with suggestions to help out with that because like. I'm still having trouble understanding every little thing, unfortunately.