GBA

In-universe incentives for one. Betting used to be a big deal in the earlier days of 1.5

Maybe part of the reason the GBA died is because no one could be bothered to finish their match. Instituting forfeiture policies like we have during tournaments might end that. Unless otherwise agreed, if you can't be bothered to make a post in two weeks you forfeit the match and take a loss to your score, regardless of the number of posts in the duel.

My one cent.

I actually have something in mind regarding the leader boards and bragging rights.

I remember seeing the betting room and other things that were tried and left by the wayside on 1.5 while I lurked in the closets of the GBA. Dont get me wrong I have been one of the staunchest supporters of incentives for IC rewards. The only problem for that is two fold. The economy is in shambles, as in there is none and credits mean diddly these days. The other one is that rewards dont mean the same to two different people. A Jedi character might fight tooth and nail for a Lambent Crystal but what does that crystal mean to a non-force user?

The one thing I could see working is having a handful of items to choose from. Or something universal.

An agreement between two people saying person X if they win gets item Y. Is another route to take with it. After all when it comes to rules its made by the two duelists. GBA standard rules which are used most often differ to my knowledge little if at all the open Uni rules. In fact I am using the GBA to fight an IC duel right now and moving on the with story (see Panno vs Talon).

I would be interested in hearing what you would think are good punishments for lack of a better term. Right now its after three months a judge is to archive and only judge if 8 or more posts have been made in the duel. Thats hardly reprimanding someone but there isnt a whole lot you can do that comes to my mind.

I'm sorry, but by credit's meaning diddly, do you mean they actually never meant anything, and were purely bits on a screen that, when grouped together in a certain way, were converted into a collection of numbers and letters on a computer screen that the GEC said were 'worth' a set amount? or that they meant nothing, cause realistically, considering that more than 50% of the site that had bank accounts had several trillion's worth of credits that were just sitting there doing nothing, and people could earn several trillion more from planetary taxes by sitting around doing nothing, effectively meant the economy was in shambles anyway? or do you perhaps mean the decision by the GRPEC (now the PGC, of which you are technically a HC of now), that these number hoarders were getting out of hand and would not realistically work in this or any other universe/multiverse/dimension/reality as an actual economy, and instead decided to base the economy on actual written RP proof and that everyone was expected to track their own credits?
Because if you mean the third option, then you could not be more wrong that the economy is fucked and credits mean diddly. Fact of the matter is, before it was decided that actual properly written out RP was required to show earnings, and that the GEC/GRPEC/PGC was not going to be tracking them in an OOC bank, the economy was a load of shit, aside from the small handful of people that were doing things properly (like yourself and Ice). The whole thing was literally restructured to encourage more people to be like yourself, and actually write things out, as opposed to sitting around claiming they were earning anything. The fact people need some OOC bank with trillions of unused credits sitting around that they could in no way feasibly spend in several lifetimes and would cause everything to be worthless in a realistic economy, to feel like credits are "worth" anything or that the economy "works", is quite distrubing, especially on a site that is meant to be about writing stories...



As for the GBA itself, aside from my personal dislike of it (considering the attitudes of certain Judges and High "Judges" in the past), the place has always been more of a side-show attraction on JvS, like the JoTW and the HNN. And rules wise, the standard GBA rules are actually far stricter on what is and is not allow, at least that is the idea that has always been championed by the GBA in the past (point-in-case: the PO used to have a field asking if something was going to be used in the GBA or not).
Then you got the fact that you literally had to post-cut a post-cut that post-cutted another post-cut to win (despite apparently post-cuts not being allowed), or certain winning decisions being rather jaded in past tournaments. On top of that, the GBA has always been for duellists, which in the past there were a lot of, but nowadays, there is only a handful left of, it has never really been marketed as something useful to the everyday writer (due in part to its out of the way nature, since it sits between the universe and the OOC boards).

Econ = a waste of fucking time. Plain and simple.

Anyways..........

GBA bashing. Oh, that's new. Goody good gumdrops. I love sore buttholes. Look, Xeo was asking for constructive responses, not personal flak. And this is where I state my constructive opinion.

Xeo, maybe You can talk to Monte or Chill about making badges for Tourney winners, runners up, top duelist, etc... nothing brings out the masses like something shiny and precious... So, yeah, incentives. Tourneys were always the high point of the year for most of us GBAers... I personally miss them, and the people who'd compete. Maybe a Tourney is in order - of course we'd need judges - and that brings us to the start again.

that's all I got. sorry.