Improvements to Pub, or other channels

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The_King_Ben

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So this is a thread I’m starting where I’m going to be giving my suggestions that I think should be looked into as to make pub a better place for everyone!

so the first suggestion I have is the biggest one that I think would help pub massively.
A stat requirement. Now hearing this you may think that this is a thread to target new players but that isn’t the case at all! In fact the type of people I want to target are the bots, you all know the kind, wether they are promoting their own explicit content, their socials, selling of other accounts, blatant scams, troll accounts, and a lot more I can’t think of as I’m writing this. The stat requirement shouldn’t be large, like 1mcs is too much for a genuine new player to climb to in order to get into the best part of the game in my opinion, the community. I believe a requirement of 100kcs would be sufficient for this to make a big difference. A fresh account can get to 100kcs in a few hours if done right or for a genuine new player it might take a day or two. But this amount of effort is something I believe bot accounts just won’t put in as it then becomes a lot slower to generate a new account to spam with.

now my second suggestion is a repeat of something that has happened in the past. A new public channel. And I believe a perfect channel to be created for proper use would be an advertising chat for people to advertise trades, items they are selling, clubs, bbbs, flashes or anything you can think of. This is just to relieve pub of some of the spam we see already from others trying to rightfully sell there stuff and I have no problem with this form of spam as it’s the only way to advertise this as of now.

so they are my main suggestions! Feel free to comment other suggestions or if you agree or disagree with me. And please be sure to give this thread as much popularity as I believe it deserves. Thank you all for reading this.
 
The-King-Ben said:
Ah I did not know that! I’m glad some testing was done on that at some point. Maybe it’s worth having a look into again though? I’m only saying this based on the current state of pub with all the advertisements. Thank you for the info though!
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Testing again would definitely be interesting as it's been about 6 years since originally tested. However I think the only way a trade channel would pull trade posts out of pub/campus would be if they were banned in those channels and I feel like that would create a little more work for a mod team already spread thin. Although this could also be rectified by adding more mods to the team.
 
Muschi said:
Testing again would definitely be interesting as it's been about 6 years since originally tested. However I think the only way a trade channel would pull trade posts out of pub/campus would be if they were banned in those channels and I feel like that would create a little more work for a mod team already spread thin. Although this could also be rectified by adding more mods to the team.
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To be fair i never thort pub being added would take rp out of campus like it was intended and mods have been doing a decent job at that. But everyone also moved general chat to pub as well. If trading is banned from everywhere else then whats the point in campus chat? It wouldnt get used for anything anymore.

Maybe just a rename of campus to trade chat would work?
 
DinosAreTheOldestCars said:
To be fair i never thort pub being added would take rp out of campus like it was intended and mods have been doing a decent job at that. But everyone also moved general chat to pub as well. If trading is banned from everywhere else then whats the point in campus chat? It wouldnt get used for anything anymore.

Maybe just a rename of campus to trade chat would work?
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That's what I've been wanting to say lately, but I didn't wanna come off as dumb. But, yeah, like Dino says, pub was originally intended for roleplayers, which was why they ask for age before entering pub.

Source? We were there 🥸
 
DinosAreTheOldestCars said:
To be fair i never thort pub being added would take rp out of campus like it was intended and mods have been doing a decent job at that. But everyone also moved general chat to pub as well. If trading is banned from everywhere else then whats the point in campus chat? It wouldnt get used for anything anymore.

Maybe just a rename of campus to trade chat would work?
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Campus is still useful for club posts. Lbh, adverts, other club related banners...
 
Muschi said:
Testing again would definitely be interesting as it's been about 6 years since originally tested. However I think the only way a trade channel would pull trade posts out of pub/campus would be if they were banned in those channels and I feel like that would create a little more work for a mod team already spread thin. Although this could also be rectified by adding more mods to the team.
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Yeah I do agree. I think that having a trade chat is definitely more of a luxury thing compared to the bot situation with pub. It’s just a hopeful request but the stat requirement is something that I believe truly would help. Of course you would still get a few who find it worthwhile to build accounts to that level but the amount of spam posts would be lowered drastically.
 
The-King-Ben said:
Yeah I do agree. I think that having a trade chat is definitely more of a luxury thing compared to the bot situation with pub. It’s just a hopeful request but the stat requirement is something that I believe truly would help. Of course you would still get a few who find it worthwhile to build accounts to that level but the amount of spam posts would be lowered drastically.
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Yeah. I feel bad for locking legitimate new players out of what potentially could be a good social location just because of some bad seeds. But in its current state pub definitely needs something drastic done to it.

Ngl part of me just wants rp requests flat out banned. They used to be.
 
Muschi said:
Yeah. I feel bad for locking legitimate new players out of what potentially could be a good social location just because of some bad seeds. But in its current state pub definitely needs something drastic done to it.

Ngl part of me just wants rp requests flat out banned. They used to be.
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Yeah I totally agree! It’s why I think the entry requirement should be fairly easy to get. Because although new players are amazing for the game, the older players at what make it what it is at the moment.

im not too bothered about the rp stuff but i do think that the stat requirement would reduce the amount of posts we see asking for rp mainly because most of them are new accounts with 14cs that are created to spam post
 
The-King-Ben said:
Yeah I totally agree! It’s why I think the entry requirement should be fairly easy to get. Because although new players are amazing for the game, the older players at what make it what it is at the moment.

im not too bothered about the rp stuff but i do think that the stat requirement would reduce the amount of posts we see asking for rp mainly because most of them are new accounts with 14cs that are created to spam post
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Very true. A lot of the issue with the 14cs accounts is that they don't have any effort put into them, so when they get silenced, they easily dispose of them from another new unsilenced account. While 1mcs for example is easy to achieve, it still takes an amount of effort that would cut down on the "disposable alt" situation.
 
Muschi said:
Very true. A lot of the issue with the 14cs accounts is that they don't have any effort put into them, so when they get silenced, they easily dispose of them from another new unsilenced account. While 1mcs for example is easy to achieve, it still takes an amount of effort that would cut down on the "disposable alt" situation.
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This is exactly what I would want, although botting can never be stopped, even with hardware Id locking accounts, making the requirement to access the chat take a few hours or days would greatly reduce the amount of bots and spam in pub. I’m even certain some people who bot the chats would stop completely as they see no point in doing it for the bot to get silenced then spend a good chunk of time getting another account to do it
 
I’m very happy to see this kind of post when I saw it advertised in Pub because we desperately need to find an answer to these issues. It’s exhausting to see the same bad eggs either get punished and make a new account immediately or not get punished at all. Almost every time a survey drops for feedback, I try to mention fixing the chats or adding new features in general. One of the things I’ve suggested was indeed a stat requirement to access the chats. Another one is a leveling system where you can unlock a feature one at a time like another game I play, Whiteout Survival. They locked joining a club, public chats and private chats until you actually play the game the way it’s supposed to be played first and then after you meet real players, no bots, no worries. But downside is how to execute it might be a bit difficult. Earn EXP per action? Level up based on dorm or stat level since no one can decrease their stats like in the past anymore. It’s not impossible to get there tho.

In regards to the banning of RP stuff, I understood back then because it was very much PVP heavy but now it’s completely leaned into parties and the fact that PIMD is listed as a role playing game. Conflict of interest type situation.

And for locking the real players out…ehh very good point. But one, blame the bots and scammers, once something like this goes through they’ll die out and it’ll get a lot better. And two, the tutorial is nice, the starter club and how the parties look there is appealing. If they like it and enjoy it, they’ll push through to meet the requirements and it leads to us meeting some cool new people.
 
TheBunnyKing said:
I’m very happy to see this kind of post when I saw it advertised in Pub because we desperately need to find an answer to these issues. It’s exhausting to see the same bad eggs either get punished and make a new account immediately or not get punished at all. Almost every time a survey drops for feedback, I try to mention fixing the chats or adding new features in general. One of the things I’ve suggested was indeed a stat requirement to access the chats. Another one is a leveling system where you can unlock a feature one at a time like another game I play, Whiteout Survival. They locked joining a club, public chats and private chats until you actually play the game the way it’s supposed to be played first and then after you meet real players, no bots, no worries. But downside is how to execute it might be a bit difficult. Earn EXP per action? Level up based on dorm or stat level since no one can decrease their stats like in the past anymore. It’s not impossible to get there tho.

In regards to the banning of RP stuff, I understood back then because it was very much PVP heavy but now it’s completely leaned into parties and the fact that PIMD is listed as a role playing game. Conflict of interest type situation.

And for locking the real players out…ehh very good point. But one, blame the bots and scammers, once something like this goes through they’ll die out and it’ll get a lot better. And two, the tutorial is nice, the starter club and how the parties look there is appealing. If they like it and enjoy it, they’ll push through to meet the requirements and it leads to us meeting some cool new people.
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I’m absolutely in agreement! I haven’t seen a levelling system like that before so I can’t comment on how I think that may help or may not help. Something needs to be put into place to restrict access to the bots. I think another way would be to require creating an account upon first launch of the game, at the moment I believe it just makes a username without needing an email attached to the account, adding the ability to create an account would be nice but still it is bypass able with buyable emails and stuff.

I don’t think a lot of people will be deterred from playing the game if they are new players if a stat requirement was implemented. Because the game itself teaches you how to play and you should be here either for the gameplay or for the community and to be a good part of it. Just trying the game out for a bit is good enough to get at least 200kcs
 
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-Sinful_KingBen- said:
So this is a thread I’m starting where I’m going to be giving my suggestions that I think should be looked into as to make pub a better place for everyone!

so the first suggestion I have is the biggest one that I think would help pub massively.
A stat requirement. Now hearing this you may think that this is a thread to target new players but that isn’t the case at all! In fact the type of people I want to target are the bots, you all know the kind, wether they are promoting their own explicit content, their socials, selling of other accounts, blatant scams, troll accounts, and a lot more I can’t think of as I’m writing this. The stat requirement shouldn’t be large, like 1mcs is too much for a genuine new player to climb to in order to get into the best part of the game in my opinion, the community. I believe a requirement of 100kcs would be sufficient for this to make a big difference. A fresh account can get to 100kcs in a few hours if done right or for a genuine new player it might take a day or two. But this amount of effort is something I believe bot accounts just won’t put in as it then becomes a lot slower to generate a new account to spam with.

now my second suggestion is a repeat of something that has happened in the past. A new public channel. And I believe a perfect channel to be created for proper use would be an advertising chat for people to advertise trades, items they are selling, clubs, bbbs, flashes or anything you can think of. This is just to relieve pub of some of the spam we see already from others trying to rightfully sell there stuff and I have no problem with this form of spam as it’s the only way to advertise this as of now.

so they are my main suggestions! Feel free to comment other suggestions or if you agree or disagree with me. And please be sure to give this thread as much popularity as I believe it deserves. Thank you all for reading this.
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I’m not reading all of that, but I can’t remember which hunt? Maybe it was a Val’s hunt not long ago where no one was able to sell/trade/recruit or whatever. I miss the days when “campus” chat was literally just players chatting to each other, now it’s just spammed with selling buying trading crap
 
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