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Discussion in 'Suggestions' started by Lukong, May 8, 2010.

  1. Lukong

    Lukong Well-Known Member

    Okay I have a question?

    If I stop gaining points in 14 days does that mean if I come back every 7 days I will keep gaining points?
    Is there any other army?
    and Thanks for helping with the rules
     
  2. Seph

    Seph Administrator Staff Member

    Re: Ideas for Romulation

    1) There already is, if you have not used RomUlation in the past 14 days then no points are given to you.

    2) No idea what you mean, regardless we do not want to do anything that limits sign up rate.

    3) No. This makes no sense, it would just discourage people from contributing to the forum.

    4) I'm fairly sure you already can delete your threads if no one posted in it yet, we do not want people removing it if there has been posts.

    5) No way, would create far too much support.
     
  3. someirishkid

    someirishkid Well-Known Member

    Re: Ideas for Romulation

    why would you want less people to sign up? That seems a bit selfish.
     
  4. yoshi2889

    yoshi2889 Well-Known Member

    Re: Ideas for Romulation

    I like the "Delete last post" idea.

    Sometimes I have posted, but then I realize that isn't needed.

    @Seph:
    With 1) he means set a points limit, like you can have ... points max.

    @Lukong:
    Seph and Loony DO want people to sign up.
    If everything was free, then nobody would register.

    Also the forum does not need limits.
    When you need help and you cannot create a new thread, your in deep shit.
     
  5. Loonylion

    Loonylion Administrator Staff Member

    Re: Ideas for Romulation

    guests are already limited to 2 files of less than 100MB a day.
     
  6. nex26

    nex26 Well-Known Member

    Re: Ideas for Romulation

    I think Romulation should have it's very own 'Agony Aunt'.
     
  7. Lukong

    Lukong Well-Known Member

    Re: Ideas for Romulation

    Its not selfish, but one of the rules is that the point system is in to stop greedy people downloading, so if I sign up I can just loop that rule.
     
  8. Seph

    Seph Administrator Staff Member

    Re: Ideas for Romulation

    No the point system is to manage our bandwidth usage, it has nothing to do with greedy people.
     
  9. Lukong

    Lukong Well-Known Member

    Re: Ideas for Romulation

    1) With over 20000 points I can download every single game plus the only reason I got that many is cause I use other sites and why cause I never was signed up and the ps1 games aren't in parts which makes it hard for me to download

    2) Some people like me use to come here just to download games, so if I can simply sign up and download what I want, why would I want to contribute to forums?

    3) Sorry, I should have thought that over.

    4) One thing though, if I post in my own forum then would you not delete it or would you cause I am trying to keep it alive?

    5) True, I guess that wasn't a good idea, but the point is to less how much is going through and I read some where about over 800mb was going through the server and Sorry for not reading the rules
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    Points

    RomUlation uses a point system to prevent download abuse. We host a large number of files, and without the point sytem in place, a small number of greedy users would saturate the connection and create a poor experience for everyone else.
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    How many people have over 10,000 points?
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    How can I tell how many games I downloaded from here?
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    Also if I can build up that many points then I wouldn't need to buy points?
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    Sorry for putting this forum in the wrong place...
     
  10. sylar1000

    sylar1000 Well-Known Member

    Re: Ideas for Romulation

    1. With 20K points you wouldn't be able to download every game.

    2. No one needs to post on the forum, i was registered for awhile before i even decided to post on the forum, i am sure there tons of people signed up that never post.

    For the points, i think he means that if there was no point system, people would download every thing they want, large files included and it would up the bandwidth usage, which means seph would have to pay more money.

    It takes awhile to build up points if you don't download anything, well i mean if you only download certain files. Paying for premium allows users to get more points so they can download bigger files and such.
     
  11. Seph

    Seph Administrator Staff Member

    Re: Ideas for Romulation

    I don't know how you got the impression that the goal is to get the forum active. But the forum is an addition to the site. The site is the important thing, not the forum.

    And 20K points is only 20 GB, that's really not very much and even if you spent it all in one day then there wouldn't be a problem.
     
  12. Lukong

    Lukong Well-Known Member

    Re: Ideas for Romulation

    LOL... your funny... please delete this forum or lock it, Thank you
     
  13. TirithRR

    TirithRR Well-Known Member

    Re: Ideas for Romulation

    His funny... what?
     
  14. Lukong

    Lukong Well-Known Member

    Re: Ideas for Romulation

    If every person were to do that then would it be a problem?
     
  15. yoshi2889

    yoshi2889 Well-Known Member

    Re: Ideas for Romulation

    They want to prevent massive Bandwidth usage, because you have a limit on what you may stream in GB's.
     
  16. Loonylion

    Loonylion Administrator Staff Member

    Re: Ideas for Romulation

    No, there's no limit if you have the money to pay for it. Bandwidth is very expensive so the points system is to keep the bandwidth used to an amount that we can afford to pay for.
     
  17. yoshi2889

    yoshi2889 Well-Known Member

    Re: Ideas for Romulation

    But you want to prevent massive usage, right?
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    By the way, this is a topic/thread.
     
  18. Lukong

    Lukong Well-Known Member

    True that was the reason for my ideas cause a lot of good sites get shut down due to the lack of funds.
    Sorry when I say Forum I mean Thread/Topic.
     
  19. yoshi2889

    yoshi2889 Well-Known Member

    You also had ideas with which you don't need bandwidth...
     
  20. Seph

    Seph Administrator Staff Member

    It's perfectly fine to have ideas, and people are *very* welcome to suggest them. We will be honest about them though, if we don't think they're good ideas we'll say so.

    As for your new question, yes, you just need to login once every 14 days, then you'll get points.