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Psychout wrote:'fraid not, it requires admin to change usertitles.

Shame really, as I miss my Warlord title. This new one's rubbish.

They seem equivalent to me.

Wingspan wrote:

Psychout wrote:'fraid not, it requires admin to change usertitles.

Shame really, as I miss my Warlord title. This new one's rubbish.

They seem equivalent to me.

And dont you forget it!

i miss my Goddess title.

Psychout wrote:'fraid not, it requires admin to change usertitles.

Shame really, as I miss my Warlord title. This new one's rubbish.

And none of the admin would be willing to do it?

There is only OS who even dares touch HMW, and he's permabusy.

Couldn't CB do it?

why cant OS delegate som of his jobs to other mods? if all the burden is falling on him, can't he basically hand out assignments to other mods?

Name_Violation wrote:why cant OS delegate som of his jobs to other mods? if all the burden is falling on him, can't he basically hand out assignments to other mods?

Not if it's admin only stuff.

Though, if OS is busy doing other stuff, and he's the only admin for HMW, maybe there needs to be a second one who can handle the more board based admin stuff while he works on whatever top secret black project he's working on.

Don't forget that whatever is done it cannot crash or break the rest of seibs; all the login/user account basics are inherited from phpBB so it's not a from-scratch seibertron code base.

So I'm not surprised that the maintenance of anything related to the HMW code (financials, forum acccess, etc.) in the slightest fashion is delegated to him only. Without some serious process and version control it's very difficult to have multiple hands in a single code cookie jar. The delegation you mentioned does make a lot of sense - but even that takes (significant) preparatory work so that an average (or below, like Psych ) moderator can make significant changes to the game.

User titles in specific though - that does seem more board related BUT it sounds like it would require some level of site code modifications. Frankly though, I'm just glad I'm no longer a "Mini-Con"... it was embarrassing how long I had that title.

Wingspan wrote:Don't forget that whatever is done it cannot crash or break the rest of seibs; all the login/user account basics are inherited from phpBB so it's not a from-scratch seibertron code base.

So I'm not surprised that the maintenance of anything related to the HMW code (financials, forum acccess, etc.) in the slightest fashion is delegated to him only. Without some serious process and version control it's very difficult to have multiple hands in a single code cookie jar. The delegation you mentioned does make a lot of sense - but even that takes (significant) preparatory work so that an average (or below, like Psych ) moderator can make significant changes to the game.

User titles in specific though - that does seem more board related BUT it sounds like it would require some level of site code modifications. Frankly though, I'm just glad I'm no longer a "Mini-Con"... it was embarrassing how long I had that title.

I'm not saying they'd have to do anything drastic. Just handle the minor things that are board side that they can't do as a mod. Like user titles. Things like that.

You guys really like the idea, huh?
OK. Well I like it cos it cant be forged like a sig can, so Ill check it with the admin about it, answer may take a while though.


To recap;
A thread will be started in GD advertising the 'licences' for bounty hunters, awarded to applicants once they have scalped an existing hunters complete team.

Clients fill in the form on the first page and either:
1) Post it in GD. The hunters then 'declare' they are going for it publicly and race for the scalp, there is nothing to stop non-hunters joining in. First person to post the last kill wins.
2) Submit it privately to any hunters they choose and resove the bounty via PM's. This is an option for licenced hunters only.

Completed bounties are sent to me for payment by the winning hunter until a better system is devised.

Have I missed anything?

Psychout wrote:You guys really like the idea, huh?
OK. Well I like it cos it cant be forged like a sig can, so Ill check it with the admin about it, answer may take a while though.


To recap;
A thread will be started in GD advertising the 'licences' for bounty hunters, awarded to applicants once they have scalped an existing hunters complete team.

Clients fill in the form on the first page and either:
1) Post it in GD. The hunters then 'declare' they are going for it publicly and race for the scalp, there is nothing to stop non-hunters joining in. First person to post the last kill wins.
2) Submit it privately to any hunters they choose and resove the bounty via PM's. This is an option for licenced hunters only.

Completed bounties are sent to me for payment by the winning hunter until a better system is devised.

Have I missed anything?

When are we going after the first set of hunter licenses?

If I don't get one, I'll have disgraced my name...

Good news everyone!

OS wrote:Sure. That won't be a big deal to do.

There ya go, good call AZ. Your licences will be your forum usertitles.

Now you all gotta agree on a name. We'll start with: 'Licenced Bounty Hunter'

Your go chaps...
This should be fun...

or we could do faction spicific titles liscened bountyhunter, hitman for hire, mercenary, assassian, ect

hired goon here at noon

Psychout wrote:
Good news everyone!

OS wrote:Sure. That won't be a big deal to do.

There ya go, good call AZ. Your licences will be your forum usertitles.

Now you all gotta agree on a name. We'll start with: 'Licenced Bounty Hunter'

Your go chaps...
This should be fun...

I perfer just hunter, unless we could get a rank of hunter based on how quickly/efficiently we can score the kills.

Name_Violation wrote:or we could do faction spicific titles liscened bountyhunter, hitman for hire, mercenary, assassian, ect

hired goon here at noon

If we did that, I'd have to be 'S Ranked Maverick Hunter'

Maybe all the Licensed Hunters could be done up as a special user group with the ability to set custom titles. Their title (or name) would be colored differently from the staff so they could be recognized as Licensed Bounty Hunters. That way you could give them a private Hunter's Lodge for them to gather and discuss bounties and co-ordinate hunts (I had an idea recently that multiple bounty hunters could team up to take a mark down all splitting a cut of the bounty).

Merc With A Mouth wrote:Maybe all the Licensed Hunters could be done up as a special user group with the ability to set custom titles. Their title (or name) would be colored differently from the staff so they could be recognized as Licensed Bounty Hunters. That way you could give them a private Hunter's Lodge for them to gather and discuss bounties and co-ordinate hunts (I had an idea recently that multiple bounty hunters could team up to take a mark down all splitting a cut of the bounty).

Now that's a good idea.

We could set up someone to fetch the bounties and post in there to, like a mod for that forum or something. People who want bounties posted in private can PM that person and they can put it up on the lodge for the hunters to look at and accept it.

I love it when a plan comes together.

Lets not get too excited here.

This game is not faction based, that's what tournaments are for. This is for competition within factions as well as from opposing ones, so there will be no factional variations of the title (to begin with.)

If/when this takes off and creates more interest across the game, we can look to expanding it but until then we keep it as one title for all licensed hunters and it all kept in GD.

So, make a suggestion... 'Hunter' on its own isn't good enough, it needs to be something that advertises and explains the game in 2-3 words.

Licensed Bounty Hunter seems simple and appropriate; if you deviate from simple into humorous (e.g. Baby Boba Fett) you cross that line of understandable while also crossing the line of not meeting everyone's tastes in humor.

So Licensed Bounty Hunter, Bounty Hunter, Contract Killer (borderline not pg-13...) all seem valid.

If it's a user title, we don't really need the licensed part.

Bounty Hunter
Scalp Hunter
Head Hunter
Emblem Hunter
Mech Hunter
Deathdealer
Enforcer
Leg Breaker
Kill Master

Predator.

Alien.

.... wrong context

So long as it's distinctive and the GD gets an announcement (maybe add it to the helpful information sticky?) then it will be clear.

Mech Hunter gets a vote, but don't we need something more - Seibertronian? What are some good TF words describing Tranformers themselves?

Bounty Hunter gets a vote from me.

Wingspan wrote:So long as it's distinctive and the GD gets an announcement (maybe add it to the helpful information sticky?) then it will be clear.

It will be a site news article to start with, then when its died down it will probably be sticked, depending on how cluttered the thread gets.

It needs to have the pphrase Licensed in it so it obvious to non HMW players what it is, but so far im liking:
Bounty Hunter
Head Hunter
Mech Hunter
Deathdealer
Predator

Bounty Hunter is still the leader so far.