Is Powder Toy going against new saves?
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You know what, that actually makes more sense...
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@PTuniverse (View Post)
well ... no not really. Why would it now not have to open your save file? Every time you save it still has to re-render it no matter what. I doubt the amount of people constantly resaving had any effect at all on server lag, because it really wasn't much compared to the large amount of saves we get every day. I never really notice any lag, and also thumbnail requests are limited in-game, and all other requests are limited to some other number that I can't remember ... it's not going to make the game faster though.
We talked about what to do on irc though (me, Catelite, and MiningMarsh), and we came up with an idea of featured saves, where you can put one of your saves on this list to "advertise" it for a week and it would be easier to see it and find good things. It would be sorted randomly mostly, and not have as many bad saves as by date would. (Or we just change the bump limit to a few hours ... but this idea would actually solve the problem) -
@jacob1 (View Post)
I liked the way the first system was. Where humans are present, crime is. It is impossible for TPT or any other software to be completely troll and noob free. I still say that the bump time limit should be reduced to a few hours. If you implement the featured saves list, what is your guarantee that no noob/troll can publish their save on that list? Also, if it is sorted randomly how can new saves be noticed? Remember that the point is to give newly published saves the required attention. I think most TPT players are capable of picking out good saves among a buch of noob saves on the by date listings. And making threads in the forum for popularity is definitely not accessible by everyone. -
So, problem solved! Or is it... (hopefully it should be, I'm not seeing them updated yet so I predict it should be in a week or two)
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The Best solution is usually the easiest one. And in this case the easiest solution is just to add a bump button. It would keep the front page quality up and allow noobs to spam their saves indefinently. Everyone gets a fair go, and after all, the fp was always about effort anyway.
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perhaps you guys can ask for people to specifically search for unnoticed saves that should be more noticed and have them post their thoughts on certain saves... Im not a proffessional in brainstorming nor in TPT... but its an Idea that you can give or take away.
