June Vote-Palooza

[ShaLeah]

Do it!

Topmudsites
The MUD Connector


Let's take the lead early!

[Lizzie]

A dozen will get us to #2 and ahead for at least a few minutes on TMS (before the usual suspects mass-click).

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One of these Mud Connector facts does not seem all the way honest to me. See if you can spot it.

Location: USA
Primary Language: English
Minimum Players: 74 - 99
Multi-Play: No
Player-Kill: Yes

[ShaLeah]

Bump!
There was thirty people on when I logged off. Why can't everyone that's on vote!
We're down to 9th!

[Zoan]

I refuse to vote until they balance merchant haggle, it's too OP and staff, I believe I speak for the majority (read: not the merchants) that you have earned an embargo on this until you correct this irresponsible oversight to everyone's gaming experience.

[FreeRangeVestric]

Out of the top 10...For shame, people! Vote!

[tortall]

TMS: 3 votes a day(2 at home, 1 at work)
TMC: 1 vote a day(since they make you create a login now)

[Lizzie]

TMS: 3 votes a day(2 at home, 1 at work)
TMC: 1 vote a day(since they make you create a login now)

Encouraging people to cheat is probably not a good idea. I'd like to think our playerbase has higher standards than that. The rule is two votes per 24 hours per *person* on Topmudsites. Not 2 votes per IP address.

If we have to cheat to get to the top 10 list, then we are doing something wrong.

[Barsook]

Agreed, cheating will make us look bad.

[Malken]

Cheated. Er, I mean, voted.

Remember that good guys finish last, or, well, they finish out of the top 10.

[ShaLeah]

Voting everywhere there's an internet connection is cheating?

Goddamn, how would we look if we didn't do that? Hell we're 14th!

[Lizzie]

Voting everywhere there's an internet connection is cheating?

Goddamn, how would we look if we didn't do that? Hell we're 14th!

From the TopMudsites Rules:
How often can I vote?
Your vote will count only once every 12 hours. For the most part, the script will stop someone from inflating their votes. If I catch you cheating such as using open proxies, I'll give you a warning, then suspend you, then ban you from the list. The integrity of this site is based on the fact that cheating will not get you to the top, and that the rankings are as fair as they can be.

Players from my site are trying to cheat. I can't control their actions
Much like a parent, you are responsible for what your little ones do. Make it well-known on your site/game that you will take measures against any player who is trying to cheat this system, and that it can only end up hurting the mud instead of helping it.

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Also previous threads in their forum about this topic have been pretty explanatory. There's no difference between 10 of us each using 5 different IP addresses to vote, and 1 of us using 50 proxies to vote. It's cheating. It is against the spirit of voting. It'd be like in real life, in real voting for real officers of the country, if one guy had access to an unlimited number of fake IDs and used each one to successfully vote for the new president, even if no one else wanted him to win.

It's dirty, it smells bad, it's underhanded, and it makes -us- look bad if we get caught, and it is also grounds for the admin on TMS to remove us from the rankings completely.

Just don't do it. Or, if you're going to do it, don't be stupid enough to post your intention to do it on a forum.

[long live miley cyrus]

Remember, Lizzie will eat anyone who breaks these rules, so at least be quiet while you're hacking the system.

[ShaLeah]

I vote every time I'm somewhere with an internet connection outside of my home which is every day. Then I vote at home once because that's all I have time for. I never vote more than twice a day but I never saw those rules before. Heh.

Remember, Lizzie will eat anyone who breaks these rules, so at least be quiet while you're hacking the system.

Soooooooooooooo scared!

[manonfire]

It's only wrong if you get caught.

[Harmless]

HI

VOTE

Do it!

Topmudsites
The MUD Connector


Let's take the lead early!

[Reiloth]

Not to mention the MUDs consistently in the top three offer voting incentives, like EXP and COINS to their PCs.

I don't think adding a vote here and there is 'cheating'. It's bending. I think what those MUDs do is much more wrong and icky than tossing an extra vote in when you can.

[Ghaati111]

Not to mention the MUDs consistently in the top three offer voting incentives, like EXP and COINS to their PCs.

I don't think adding a vote here and there is 'cheating'. It's bending. I think what those MUDs do is much more wrong and icky than tossing an extra vote in when you can.

If you have evidence that those muds are offering incentives to vote, report them. It's against their rules.

[Desertman]

I voted.

I also got a guy from League of Legends I was playing with last night to create a user account for Arm.

Who did you recruit today?

GET ON MY LEVEL!

[The7DeadlyVenomz]

I wish the game had in game voting reminders.

>OOC note: You do not appear to have voted today. Type 'vote TMC' or 'vote TMS' to sumbit votes for those respective ranking sites. You may turn off these messages by typing 'change oocnotes off'.

>vote TMS

>OOC note: You have voted for Armageddon MUD on TMS, and will not see this message for another 12 hours. Thank you. You may turn off these messages by typing 'change oocnotes off'.

[Lizzie]

I wish the game had in game voting reminders.

>OOC note: You do not appear to have voted today. Type 'vote TMC' or 'vote TMS' to sumbit votes for those respective ranking sites. You may turn off these messages by typing 'change oocnotes off'.

>vote TMS

>OOC note: You have voted for Armageddon MUD on TMS, and will not see this message for another 12 hours. Thank you. You may turn off these messages by typing 'change oocnotes off'.

Oh hell no. I can't stand nag screens for anything else, I can't stand the nag popups on the Arm website. I shouldn't have to "opt out" of being nagged to do things. I do things because I want to do them, not because I want someone to STFU and stop nagging me about it already.

[Cale_Knight]

Maybe there could be an option to opt INTO a nag system? Especially if I could vote via game input.

I'd be down with that.

[Zoan]

I can code one and put the script up if you REALLY want.

[The Warshaper]

I certainly would not mind a helpful reminder to vote in game. Once every 12 hours isnt really nagging. Being in the top 10 for TMS also can go a long ways for exposure to new players, like myself.

[Nyr]

Unstickied/locked the other one and sticked this one.