Staredit Network

Ideaz:

• Whisper to people on bnet from here on SEN through the top right corner box.
• Additional store purchases:
  • Make a thread sticky for X amount of time (somewhat expensive)
  • Make thread frontpage news for X time (also expensive, and with validation before it happens).
  • Make a new forum (really expensive, so only mods or people who pool their money are only ones who can make it)
  • Increase text/image limit for a post.
• New ways to earn minerals:
  • Review maps/downloads (appreciates in earning if people post good comments for it).
  • Make posts or threads that get POSITIVE attention (posts or threads closed/deleted by anyone besides their maker lose all earnings, though.
  • Upload files that get good reviews or high downloads.
• Nested mini-shoutboxes in posts (cost minerals?).
• Shoutbox access through op staredit.net channel (with some kind of bot function).
• Have SEN bot auto-host frontpage listed maps randomly on bnet.

Just some ideas I pulled outta my a... pocket. Take em or leave em.

EDIT- Oh and, what's with the generic staredit forum? Can't seem to figure why it exists with all the other mapping/staredit forums.

It won't be done . You would have to put numerous bots so they won't flood with all people whispering. Then you would have to give access to a whole bunch of people. It's prone to be evry laggy and I think it'll be down most of the time.


People will abuse this.


Anyone can do this. You just need validation.


Again this can be easily abused.


This could be nice, but not worth it since people barely reach the text limit but Image limit item might be nice.


Again, this could be easily abused and thats why we have specific people to Review maps. But this could be an item to be able to review 1 map and if it's good enough you might earn the position.


This could be nice but then people would start spam making lots of threads. Maybe if the thread is alive and has X amount of views/posts you might get extra mins per post/view besides the minimun limit.


On getting lots of downloads I don't agree. But having a File with good rating is abuseable by getting your friends to rate it 10/10. It could be done by getting a good review by a DLDB Keeper.


Whats this?


How would you connect the Bot inside B.net to a shoutbox that requires it to be connected to SEN. It's hard to do and how would people inside B.net view the shouts?


And this would be done how?



Thats just for everything that doesn't have to directly do with mapmaking. Mainly talking about Downlaods and Editors.

those are some pretty good ideas you got there tuxedo except for the shoutbox thing, that would lag the page a LOT if people are spamming

Sorry tux, everything you said is either impossible, or can be abused too much

oooooooooooooooh! Tux got served by Yoshi

Jk, you're still cool tux


But neways some of those ideas are cool, but i doubt would be done. Speaking of the SEN store, LOTS LOTS more needs to be added. Yoshi or IP, u guys need to refill the "Moose mug of appreciation" stock cuz i seriously want to buy one.

impossible and abusable
not good... not good at all.


lol

Well nevermind then, I just meant something like a context-specific instance of a shoutbox, like having one for your own thread/forum/post.

As I said, I just pulled those ideas outta my bum. Take em or leave em.

(lol @ being too lazy to re-login)

Also, by bot auto-hosting maps on bnet, I mean simply that the maps shown on the front page are randomly hosted on bnet by the bot to help promote them. Don't tell me you couldn't do something like that.

Actually, it'd be extremely difficult to, and in the end, blizzard wouldn't approve.

no it is possible. since yoshi is using a program called web bot, anyone with his username and password can talk via the bot from the internet.

I know, but if too many people whisper, it will ban the bot. I can get multipule bots, but im sure blizzard wouldn't approve of me making my own personal IRC with their gaming services. I think I'd rather let the servers run with less lag from us then to have an unnecessary IRC-type-thing on SEN.

Hey yoshi, is it possible to program SEN into some sort of thing like a bot, where you can also sign into battlenet?

You know I think there already is a bot that can host games on bnet, so I doubt it's really 'extremely hard'. But whatever.

One way to avoid abusing things like peer-validated reviewing and submissions is to make validations count more from established members rather than just anyone. I doubt that'd be more than a few extra lines of code to check for a minimum postcount, warn level, etc.

ya it is possible, but you would need someone with a windows web server, and someone that knows asp, and a programming language.

possibly: yes

likely: no

most people are to busy, or don't know how to do something like that. the most you can do with the current bot is chat through it. but you would need to know its password.

What would be the point of signing into battlenet if we aren't willing to code the ability for people in the channel to send messages back?

We already have an unnecessary bot that gets your b.net username's stats... we could send messages from it if we wished.
We could program the ability to sign in with your own name, but I'm sure too many ips logged in from our site address would be a bad thing. The stats bot already gets temp banned for a few minutes as is.

Yes, but it isn't a php based bot. Ours is.

You aren't supposed to buy yourself a Moose-Mug of Appreciation. You are given that item when you do something good for the site and you aren't supposed to.

ya, we're just lazy



actually it was developed in asp.