Players Profile List
 

Hi,

I suggest to start an initiative aimed to create and maintain a list of all MP players profiles.
What exactly is a player profile is something that I hope can be discussed in this thread.
I'll put up a suggestion on the table of the profile template I have in mind:

Player Name: BozzoDeClown
Player Attributes:
Diplomacy Rating: 2
Aggressiveness: 8
Dominions Lore: 6
Shrewdness: 10
Experience: 0
Lawful: 3
Additional Observations of fellow MPers:
WL: "This players is not diplomatically active.
He likes to early rush and is generally quite aggressive.
I find him to be very clever and usually formulates well thought of plans."

The attributes should be fairly self explanatory. I'll list their semantics for clarity.
diplomatically Rating - How active this player is on the diplomacy front? How successful? Does he leverage diplomacy to gain the upper hand? etc.
Aggressiveness - Does the player like to turtle?- Or is he a rusher?
Dominions Lore - How well is the player versed in the inner workings of dominions?
Shrewdness - How good a "general" is the player?- How well does he perform on the strategic and tactical level?
Experience - Noob? Veteran? anything in between. Actually this can be measured objectively by given hard limits. Like score = (# of MP games)/10 for example
Lawful - Does the players stand by his word? Is he "honorable"?

The way to fill them up is by feedback of MPers that can then be averaged.
As a starters I'd suggest to start with the list of HoFers and then add names to the list by one of two ways. Either a "testimony" of a fellow player, or a request by the player to be added to the list.

Just in case the idea catches up I'll reserve a place for the actual list in the subsequent three posts.

What do you guys think?

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Micah
Calmon
Amhazair
Wraithlord
Jurri
EvilHomer
Jazzepi
Kadelake
Xietor
Ironhawk
Lolomo
ano
Baalz
Tyrant
Meglobob

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Yet another iteration of the "Hall of Shame", I see. You can do this for yourself, sure, because a list like this always is subjective. But it won't really provide objective measurements, and will most like just produce lots of pages of drama, right?

Make a "go fish"-like card game of Dom3 MP players, all in good fun, but other uses are hypocritical.

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Player Name: Jazzepi
Player Attributes:
Diplomacy Rating: -492
Aggressiveness: 9,999
Dominions Lore: 42
Shrewdness: 3.14159265
Experience: 299 792 458 m / s
Lawful: 2.71828183

I see this sort of thread only causing huge drama-roffle-flamewars if it's taken seriously.

Jazzepi

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I do like the concept, but the others have a point. I think you could probably get away with rating the HoF players without causing too much trouble, but rating everyone is probably a bad idea. And some of these ratings are fairly subjective. A newer player who gets stomped by someone is going to rate that person high, and an older player who stomps someone else is likely to rate them lower. There are people who I know could make reasonable judgements as to how to lay out those scores, but you would probably have to play a number of games with a person to really be a good judge of their dominions personality.

If you got rid of the Dominions Lore, Shrewdness, and Lawful ratings it would be a lot more civil, but that's cutting out a lot of the information you were trying to show.

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Wait a sec. guys.

I don't want this to be a hall of shame!

There a few things that can be done or considered to avoid this:
1. Remove problematic attributes. Maybe Lawfulness is bad so we remove it.
2. The community mostly consists of polite and considerate ppl. So no reason to expect this to degenerate into hall of shame/flame war producer.
3. This thread can be regulated to make sure it stays on the right track.

There's no way to avoid subjectivity though.

This thread can have positive effect, as basically lots of takes on players would be presented here and produce some nice disussions.

All that said. If many ppl think its a bad idea I'll just bury it.

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Personally I think it's a great idea. I don't take myself that seriously, so even if someone rated me low it wouldn't bother me. Plus I will continue to play the noob card until I win a game :D But I can see how a player might be sensitive about people criticizing their skill/knowledge.

And the lawfulness attribute is a bad, bad idea.

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I see Jazzepi's characteristics match a number of fundamental constants!

I don't know what -492 is though. Apart from being Jazzepi's diplomacy rating.