Slotting Bounty System (SBS)

gruppe-adler-concept-sbs.md

Slotting Bounty System (SBS)

Motivation

Some roles tend to stay open for a long time, some roles are taken the instant the slotting goes online. We want some system that equals the playing field and

• incentivizes players to cover all roles
• prevents slot sniping
• gives everyone a chance to play their preferred role

Solution: slots are auctioned

Use our current slotting tool, with these added features:

• Every user is associated their own persistent numerical slotting score ("score")
• Upon slotting, participants have to enter a numerical bounty ("bounty"), defaulting to 100
  • a bounty cannot be higher than 100 (default value)
    • this is so people cannot get rich on slots that no-one else wants
  • a bounty must be integer
    • this is so people dont get into tedious floating point battles
• Participants can kick other participants off their respective slot and take it for themselves by entering a lower bounty than the one the previous occupant entered
  • Participants are allowed to enter a negative bounty as long as their score is higher than zero
  • When a participant kicks another from their slot, their score is reduced by:
    • longer than a week before the event: 0 point
    • 6…7 days before the event: 1 point
    • 5…6 days before the event: 2 points
    • 4…5 days before the event: 4 points
    • 3…4 days before the event: 8 points
    • 2…3 days before the event: 16 points
    • 1…2 days before the event: 32 points
    • 0…1 days before the event: impossible to kick other players off their slots
  • the prompt for the bounty contains a list of previously slotted players, the timestamp & their selected bounties
• After an event, a moderator gets a "Confirm slottings" button which opens a pop-up that lists all the slots and the players
  • for every slot-player combo, there's
    • a button "did not show up"
    • if that button gets clicked, a dropdown is added with all other slotted players available for selection as stand-in
    • at the bottom, there is a "save" button
• Once confirmed, every player's slot bounty gets added to their score but ONLY if they actually played the slot
  • If a player did not show up their score is reduced by 100 points
  • If a player slotted somewhere else to replace a no-show, 100 points get added to their score
• There is no provision for players that were not slotted but showed-up spontaneously!

we would need a way to handle players

• not turning up
• jumping in instead
  so, unlocking/assigning after the event, maybe limited to moderators.

we would need a way to handle players

• not turning up

• jumping in instead

so, unlocking/assigning after the event, maybe limited to moderators.

Simple solution:

• for people who did not use their slotted slot in-game, we do not pay out whatever bounty their slotting had
• for no-shows, we set a penalty -100 points
• for spontaneous stand-ins, we give them 100 points
  • if their original slotting had a bounty of 100, nothing changes for them – but thats ok, their original slot wasnt super important to them (or anyone else) anyway
  • if their original slotting had a low bounty – that is they loved their slot and wanted to have it – they effectively get a bonus