Introducing the Player Character Evaluation Tool

[ShadowCharlatan]

Since the beginning of EFU:R the EFUDM team has been using a confidential player evaluation system.

The purpose of this system was to use unsupervised passive surveillance to inform DMs about the quality of players. In other words, there are a number of background scripts keeping tabs on certain numbers, information, and behaviours such as:

• A large number of actions, behaviours, and maneauvres in combat. (eg. Luring very few monsters into combat when the total area monster count is comparatively high. Number of rounds per hour that your PC has used expertise and improved expertise (in and out of quest areas). Number of rounds per hour that your PC has been invisible (in and out of quest areas).)
• Build evaluation.
• Who your PC has subdued/FD'd, specifically their level and build compared to yours.
• Whether your PC uses the most popular perks, bard songs, general feats, and spell focus feats.
• If you quest with low quality players.
• Your XP and GP per hour.
• Your IP/Location.
• Your CD key and previous characters.
• Explicit DM modifications to your quality measurements.
• and more...

All of this information was condensed into an easy-to-read format, and expressed in three fundamental measures of player quality.

• Stupidity
• Lameness
• and Cowardice

The system would also helpfully indicate whether a target PC was deserving of punishing DM spice. This may not be surprising to those of you who have experienced such DM spice. Please know that DMs were never out to get you on a personal level. To their eyes, they were just doing their jobs based on the system. And unfortunately some people are just unlucky and get caught up in someone else's punishment spice.

The reason for this announcement is that we have decided to give all players access to the OOC information DMs see about them and other players. Henceforth, all PCs will have access to the Player Character Evaluation Tool, a new player tool accessible through the Crafting Menu. Using it on a PC (yours or another) displays the aforementioned fundamental measures: stupidity, lameness, and cowardice. As mentioned, it will also tell you if that PC is a target for punishing spice.

We are doing this in the interests of transparency.

We want to allow players to improve in their problem areas (whether stupidity, lameness, cowardice, or some combination of the three), and we also want good and honest players to see which players they should avoid.

We hope this information will help you to avoid punishing spice if you are undeserving of it. And we also hope this information being public will isolate those players that are lame, stupid, and cowardly... so that they will be forced to change their behaviours to improve their reputation and bring to EFU a much higher standard of play.

Some of you may be distressed by the numbers you see. They are not open to negotiation or modification, so please no appeals or apps. But feel free to discuss the new system in the General Discussion forum thread provided. We definitely encourage high quality players to give advice and guidance to struggling low quality players on how they can improve in their problem areas.

[Mort]

at long last...