RTB Development

[Wedge]

What are your thoughts and concerns about this?

This takes the burden of trying to make a up a criteria for the bargain bin and gives it to the community. Especially with decals and prints which people always seem to bitch about, "OMG WHY DID YOU BARGAIN BIN THIS FAEC LOOK YOU APPROVED THIS ONE!"

I'm all for it. I do have a couple of concerns though. One of them is that there might be a good addon with a bad presentation, although I suppose that would get noted when it was tested and approved.

My biggest concern is that people won't actually bother judging them. Maybe you can have the modbot post something to the news feed that says something like "I have 10 new ad-dons today for you to judge." You would need to think of ways to encourage them to judge. Maybe people who judge accurately get weighted more and get some kind of tag on their RTB profile (totally did not steal that from newgrounds).

[Ad Bot]

[Ephialtes]

What happened to the original concern that when the "SUPER MEGA ROCKET BOMBER" (Which for this purpose is a repackaged rocket launcher that overwrites the original datablocks, has ugly particle edits, and is rediculously overpowered) gets failed, you have tons of raging people who thought it looked so cool that all the other problems shouldn't have mattered.

I am less concerned about people raging over RTB and dismissing it now that it is more established in the community.

This takes the burden of trying to make a up a criteria for the bargain bin and gives it to the community. Especially with decals and prints which people always seem to bitch about, "OMG WHY DID YOU BARGAIN BIN THIS FAEC LOOK YOU APPROVED THIS ONE!"

I'm all for it. I do have a couple of concerns though. One of them is that there might be a good addon with a bad presentation, although I suppose that would get noted when it was tested and approved.

My biggest concern is that people won't actually bother judging them. Maybe you can have the modbot post something to the news feed that says something like "I have 10 new ad-dons today for you to judge." You would need to think of ways to encourage them to judge. Maybe people who judge accurately get weighted more and get some kind of tag on their RTB profile (totally did not steal that from newgrounds).

I think there is some responsibility on the part of the submitter to really "sell" their add-on. They should be thinking of it like a finished product that they must then promote in order to get people to use it. If people can't be bothered to do that bit then it reflects badly on RTB if we allow half-assed submissions to be floating around.

I'm thinking some kind of reward system where you get points based on whether you voted for the decision the reviewer ends up making. Then it becomes a sort of gambling minigame too. I do have some sort of plan for a "currency" within RTB but I haven't said much as I don't want everyone jumping to some sort of "lol RPG" conclusion about it, and I haven't finished thinking it through. I reckon a lot of people will be more than willing to partake in the judging but we'd still need that extra encouragement from the rest. Perhaps also you lose a point if you downvote something that people have overwhelmingly upvoted (and was subsequently approved) to deter people who just run about voting everything down.

[Freeze]

What would the points get you? (if anything).

NINJAEDIT: I suppose it would be fun to compete to see who could get the most points.

[mctwist]

What would the points get you? (if anything).

NINJAEDIT: I suppose it would be fun to compete to see who could get the most points.

Get the biggest E-snake that is.

[Chrono]

I'm sure there could be some use for them.

[mctwist]

I could post a link to VGCats that describes what you can use them for. But due that a censored snake would make me violate BL forum rules, you have to find it yourself. I suggest you search for xbox and online in the archive.

[Chrono]

He said he was looking for things you could do with them.

[Blastdown]

The vote will then help Mod Reviewers make a decision on an add-on when reviewing it.

What are your thoughts and concerns about this?

Allowing users to view and vote on "being-reviewed" add-ons would be fine.
However if this is to effect a Mod Reviewers decision in the matter, I don't like that.

If anything, that should/might increase the chance of the add-on being reviewed sooner/on the top of the reviewing list.

[Ephialtes]

They'd be used for purchasing "items" on the RTB website. Examples of these items include:

Username change
API credit increase
Promote server/add-on/gallery submission

Allowing users to view and vote on "being-reviewed" add-ons would be fine.
However if this is to effect a Mod Reviewers decision in the matter, I don't like that.

If anything, that should/might increase the chance of the add-on being reviewed sooner/on the top of the reviewing list.

Add-ons are approved chronologically because it's the fairest way of dealing with all the submissions - first come first serve. The vote would not necessarily sway a mod reviewer's decision. If it's a terrible add-on but everyone is voting it up then it will still be failed (e.g. mini-nuke, airliner, all that crap) - it's purely to give a community reading on the quality and would most likely be used to decide whether it gets full approval or makes a trip to the Bargain Bin.

[Chrono]

I'll likely be going for the API once I figure it out, and once you get those instructions or whatever that you mentioned.

[canto xe]

They'd be used for purchasing "items" on the RTB website. Examples of these items include:

Username change
API credit increase
Promote server/add-on/gallery submission

What's API And i dont really like the idea!that's like stealing...Promote servers like what?explain me whole idea

[Radial543]

Will the API just support PHP, or will it encompass other languages?

What's API

Application Programming Interface

[canto xe]

Will the API just support PHP, or will it encompass other languages?Application Programming Interface

yea... explain more

[Ephialtes]

Promote servers like what?explain me whole idea

RTB might in the future have advertising space (for Blockland related things, not marketing) and you could use an item to promote your server in that space for x hours.

Will the API just support PHP, or will it encompass other languages?Application Programming Interface

It depends how well other languages can handle it's return. I'll most likely be building a RESTful API so the client will be able to specify the format to use. Example formats would be JSON and XML. PHP has PECL/PEAR packages for JSON so it's fairly easy but most languages should be able to handle XML easily.

[Destiny/Zack0Wack0]

Will the API just support PHP, or will it encompass other languages?Application Programming Interface

It returns JSON data. Most languages handle json.