PIRP - Player Issued RP Award System

Posted by Godrich: G'day,

In a few moments, the Player Issued RP Award system (PIRP for short) will be going live in the Platinum instance of the game. Barring any unforseen problems Prime will follow shortly. Fallen will be added in a couple of days once the system proves to be stable, probably in a couple of days.

Solomon posted pretty much how the system will work so I'll be brief in my comments about the system.

-The system checks at login to see whether a player qualifies to be a participant in the system. By participant I mean those who are able to bestow points on other players. All players can receive points to earn RP awards.
-The number of points you receive to bestow, if any, depend primarily on your RP history as reflected in your RP score and number of RP awards received.
-The points you receive are reset, not rolled over, every 30 days, so no sense holding on to them since if you don't bestow them, they are lost.
-You cannot use the points you receive to bestow on other players to earn your own RP awards. Nor can you bestow points upon yourself.
-The number of points you can bestow on other players is in part determined by if they are also a participant in the system. If they are, you can only bestow 1 point on them, otherwise you can bestow up to 3 points.
-You can only bestow points on a given player once per point cycle. So if you bestow 1 point on MaryRoleplayer, you will not be able to bestow any further points on her until your available points get reset. As mentioned above, this reset happens every 30 days from the day you enter the system.
-Information about your position in the system will show up when you use the RPA verb. Non-participants will see how many points they have had bestowed on them and how many are needed to get an RP award. Participants will also see the additional verbs they have access to. These include how to bestow points and how to see how many points they have to bestow, how long until those points are reset and how many points they will get at that time.

I think that about covers the highlights. If you have any questions about how the system works, feel free to ask.

Regards,

Godrich de'Finchal

OooOOOoooo, pretty darn close to what I had under Roleplaying Awards, See "Improving the Dragonrealms World" published at the beginning of this month. Paragraph 1.2: Player Drama Points. All in all, its similiar, it's a step in the right direction. I like it, but as always, I think more can be done.

An RP score, hmm, I wonder if my DR contacts can show me what one looks like?

"-The number of points you receive to bestow, if any, depend primarily on your RP history as reflected in your RP score and number of RP awards received."

OMG, Bard Daerlynn's gonna get the maximum a month!

"-The number of points you receive to bestow, if any, depend primarily on your RP history as reflected in your RP score and number of RP awards received.s
-The points you receive are reset, not rolled over, every 30 days, so no sense holding on to them since if you don't bestow them, they are lost.
-You cannot use the points you receive to bestow on other players to earn your own RP awards. Nor can you bestow points upon yourself."

In the more practical sense this keeps DM's from getting spammed with Reports for Extrodinary Roleplay Requests and/or Demands as well as keeping things well rounded, and fair for people like me, received lots of RPA's on the old system, and then turn around and give 60% of those away to more 'deserving' roleplayers.

"-The system checks at login to see whether a player qualifies to be a participant in the system. By participant I mean those who are able to bestow points on other players. All players can receive points to earn RP awards."

One Question, what determines a participant? Age? RP history? Something else? Premie only?

But, me being a lurker, I can't ask.

"-Information about your position in the system will show up when you use the RPA verb."

All very cool, well noted.