Temple of Ranma's Sailor Senshi Seifuku

Posted: **Fri Nov 06, 2009 6:43 pm**

Now that I am on the cusp to the final run of board post count ranks I can't help looking how it is a steady 20,000 post increase for each of those higher ranks and feel its kinda lame. So I wish to propose some minor changes to mostly the ranks that no one has yet. That way there is still a greater increase in post count to gain the higher level than it was to get the prior one.

Code: Select all: Current What I propose 1 1 Initiate 10 10 Senshi Candidate 45 45 Senshi Cadet 200 200 Chibi Sailor Senshi 500 500 Asteroid Senshi 1,000 1,000 Moon Senshi 2,000 2,000 Prisim Power Senshi 4,000 3,500 Crystal Power Senshi 6,000 6,000 Cosmic Power Senshi 10,000 10,000 Crisis Power Senshi 20,000 20,000 Super Power Senshi 40,000 40,000 Eternal Power Senshi 60,000 70,000 Moon Princess 80,000 120,000 Moon Queen 100,000 200,000 Empress of the Moon

The only level anyone currently has that I changed is Crystal Power Senshi. Because at that point and the entire higher end of ranks you ended up with a same amount of increase instead of having to go further for the greater goal.

At least this isn't as nuts as my initial progression idea which would have been a 1,2,5,10,20,50 style progression that would have left Moon Queen at a 500,000 post count... I just don't think having the same amount of gain per level really gives the level as much value.

So is this Minor tweak ok or are things perfectly fine for everyone else as they are?

Posted: **Sat Nov 07, 2009 9:45 am**

Spokavriel wrote:So is this Minor tweak ok or are things perfectly fine for everyone else as they are?

Meh. It'll be a long time before the difference affects me, and it tilts the progressions a bit more towards the logarithmic. I can live with it.

Somebody mentioned having different "new posts" functions for Spamville, and for the rest of the site. It might make more sense to separate posts into spam and otherwise for Senshi rank as well. Because the way the posts are coming, it looks much more likely for people to become Crystal Senshi Queen of the Spam Moon, than Senshi-in-waiting for the Other Moon.

Posted: **Sat Nov 07, 2009 9:40 pm**

Won't affect me either in a skrillion years, but how about using a fixed ratio, once one's above Initiate, f.ex. the 13th root of 20.000? I think it'd still make an Empress at 200K posts - unless I'm sleepier than I think.

Posted: **Sun Nov 08, 2009 8:45 am**

Larry said if once a lot of people got the top rank then he'd think change the system again, but right now the chart seem more obtainable than what you propose. Even you still have some ways before you get the top rank. The whole point of the change was because a lot of people were becoming stagnent at the topic rank.

Posted: **Sun Nov 08, 2009 9:13 am**

Considering that it already takes a certain length of time to reach the top---namely, eternity---I'd rather things stayed the way they were, anyhow.

Posted: **Sun Nov 08, 2009 10:26 am**

If we end up with allot of people at the top again then doing a minor tweak so that there is a greater requirement for each subsequent level with the change I proposed wouldn't really do much more than return some but not many of them to Moon Princess or Queen.

I might as well be proposing something like this.

Code: Select all: 1 Initiate 20 Senshi Candidate 50 Senshi Cadet 100 Chibi Sailor Senshi 200 Asteroid Senshi 500 Moon Senshi 1,000 Prisim Power Senshi 2,000 Crystal Power Senshi 5,000 Cosmic Power Senshi 10,000 Crisis Power Senshi 20,000 Super Power Senshi 50,000 Eternal Power Senshi 100,000 Moon Princess 200,000 Moon Queen 500,000 Empress of the Moon

Posted: **Thu Nov 12, 2009 2:20 pm**

Blossom you have 66756(at the time of this post) post till you reach the top spot, you won't be getting their rapidly. It will be quite some time before we get a bunch of people up there. It will be even longer before someone joins you up there. At this time there is no need for changing the requirements, I think it will be year before it is.

Posted: **Thu Nov 12, 2009 2:42 pm**

The problem is that it becomes repeats of the same amount of progress in places now. What kind of reward is a higher level if it only takes the same effort already given to accomplish?

Posted: **Thu Nov 12, 2009 4:29 pm**

Then why bother with post counts at all?

As I see it, if it has taken about a year for the most prolific poster (Spokie) to get around 15,000 posts, then the current post count title thresholds will work for several years. Even if said prolific poster reaches it sooner, having one person with the highest title doesn't make it obsolete. After all, the current changes were inspired by how low the thresholds were before, when someone could make a thousand posts within a week. So, its current state serves its purpose. And there probably won't be too many people with the highest post count title for years to come, if ever. It might just last until the site dies. Who knows?

Also: is it a reward? Really? I don't consider all the posts that I make in Spamville to be an accomplishment.

Posted: **Thu Nov 12, 2009 5:56 pm**

So because the numbers are high no one seems to care that the higher levels, no one has yet, after a point are evenly spaced after the same amount of additional posts?

Posted: **Thu Nov 12, 2009 8:44 pm**

Heh... a similar arguement took place some time back on TFF. And in fact, on the new Anifics in just the last several days, there have been discussions on how to do post counting and ranking.

To be honest... I fail to see the issue.

I go to a forum to post. To contribute in some small way. To discuss. To be part of a group that has similar interests... Not for ranks, not for privilages, not for glory, and not for recognition. Anyone posting for those reasons, or making a serious deal out of it, has I think missed the point.

I am not in competition with anyone on any forum I go to, and while I am near the top on a couple forums I go to, at none am I actually at the top (in top 10 at TFF and when last checked BYTM as well).

I'm not even certain at this immediate point how many posts I have here. Not because I cannot find out, but because I do not bother myself with it.

If you want to change the ranks go ahead, I am likely to be fine with nearly any system set up.

Posted: **Thu Nov 12, 2009 10:32 pm**

Why does it matter if it's the same amount between each rank or not?

Posted: **Fri Nov 13, 2009 1:16 am**

Spokavriel wrote: So because the numbers are high no one seems to care that the higher levels, no one has yet, after a point are evenly spaced after the same amount of additional posts?

Nope. Don't care. Creating more space will do nothing more than make it more difficult (and, in my opinion, too difficult) for anyone to reach the higher tier in any reasonable amount of time. In which case, having those higher titles would simply go to waste. And, if I understand the reason for their existence correctly, they're meant to be attainable, not to sit there and gather dust for most people.

I find it pointless to make the ranks too high to accommodate a small group of people from Spamville, because it would spit in the face of those who make productive posts elsewhere. In fact, if I had to recommend anything, since there are people who care about their post count, I'd say to make it so that posts in Spamville don't add to the post count. And then find out how many posts some people have (from those who frequent(ed) Spamville) outside of Spamville, add up the post count from those forums (I have 355 posts in Ranma, and 80 posts in Sailor Moon, for instance), and set their post count thusly, cutting away the posts that must have come from Spamville. That way we wouldn't need to the highest rank at 100,000, much less 200,000, and having such a ranking system in the first place would make more sense.

Posted: **Fri Nov 13, 2009 2:02 am**

I think the current progression works quite well for the time being. It also looks like it will work quite well for a long time to come. I chose the first option.

Posted: **Fri Nov 13, 2009 8:14 am**

Code: Select all: Current Max Repeat Overkill Proposed I Like 1 1 1 1 1 Initiate 10 10 20 10 10 Senshi Candidate 45 50 50 45 50 Senshi Cadet 200 200 100 200 200 Chibi Sailor Senshi 500 500 200 500 500 Asteroid Senshi 1,000 1,000 500 1,000 1,000 Moon Senshi 2,000 1,500 1,000 2,000 1,600 Prisim Power Senshi 4,000 2,000 2,000 3,500 2,300 Crystal Power Senshi 6,000 2,500 5,000 6,000 3,100 Cosmic Power Senshi 10,000 3,000 10,000 10,000 4,000 Crisis Power Senshi 20,000 3,500 20,000 20,000 5,000 Super Power Senshi 40,000 4,000 50,000 40,000 6,100 Eternal Power Senshi 60,000 4,500 100,000 70,000 7,300 Moon Princess 80,000 5,000 200,000 120,000 8,600 Moon Queen 100,000 5,500 500,000 200,000 10,000 Empress of the Moon

Maybe this will show my point a little clearer. I don't care how high or how low things are I just like it better when there is a larger gap to gain successive levels. Because somehow in my mind that makes it a greater achievement than a repeat of a previous amount of gain between levels. Even if the last few levels got changed to 3,500 Eternal, 5,500 Princess, 8,000 Queen, 11,000 Empress I would like it better than what there is now because then there would be a progression to the increase.

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