What happened to the arcade?

[Bruce]

Hey Hey! Arcade is working!

B

[blooot]

Awesome bruce. are there still

prizes?

[MOBLEYC57]

HEY! Someone call the police!

Somebody stole Bruce's Pool Room from the Arcade!

What to do? What to do? Oooooooh what

to do!?

[Bruce]

There are gobs of games we can add.

Just gotta figure out how to go about that. Also, lots of other cool "hacks" that can be added to the forum.

Anyone interested in exploring that world, check out
http://vbulletin.org
When checking out games for

this arcade, make sure you are in the thread for the NEW version of the arcade (works with the 3.5 version of

vbulletin)

I forget how we did prizes before. Was it tied in with the forum "store"? I don't think we will

revive the store, but we could have some sort of tournament, say every Friday. Top scorers would get a gift

certificate or something.

B

[blooot]

That sounds like a great idea,

you can defenitely count on me to be in that tourny!

[Mtnjim]

Hey Hey! Arcade is

working!

B

Now, about those points...

[Bruce]

The points is a tough one. They

caused a lot of problems for the moderators. Still possible though. I'll run it by the posse.

B

[blooot]

any news update?

[Bruce]

Well, the general consensus is

that:
A. The point system was a pain in the butt to moderate due to various types of cheating. (maybe other mods

can elaborate)
B. There wasn't really much worthwhile to buy with the points other than discount coupons, and

(see A) those were causing problems.
C. However, letting the system die must be disappointing for forlks who

worked hard posting legitimately and accumulated a lot of points, and therefore something probably ought to be done

with those points.
D. That's as far as we got I think, or? (mods help me out here)

B

[Friendly1]

As much as I liked getting the

discount coupon, I've made more than one purchase since the points coupon vanished and I'm doing just fine. You

do offer other discounts. That's good enough for me, especially when they line up with my buying times.

[Rbt]

Being able to "buy" forum bling with

points was sorta attactive and interesting, but I'm not sure I would personally have done much more than altered

the text style of my name...

I could see where "cheating" could have come into play by posting many many short

and really of little value posts/threads just to gain points.

Maybe you could just "cash in" whatever old points

there are/were at a penny apiece (or 1/10th or ???) or something against L-S purchases just to clear em out, or find

a way to allow users to "cash in" the points by "buying" a moderator-done alteration to name text or wahtever if

that can still be done (like in old "forum store").

Or we can just go to our graves with the satisfaction that

at one time in our glorious youth (?) we coulda been a contender...

Well, maybe not...

[blooot]

i agree with what rbt said,

theres was a certain feeling, kinda of going to the arcade. how you would feel if you won something

[Bruce]

I might make it so you have to have

a certain post count to play the arcade. That is something I can do without reinstalling the points system.

B

[thenoser]

how about a post count or have

had past orders with you, since i do not post much.

[blooot]

bruce you gotta get back the

prizes man, that was the big thrill of playing. : )