Okay, this idea came to me after reading the Business District Perks suggestion. My idea also incorporates the Rogue Vision idea.

To explain it as simply as possible:

If you post in the Business District with a post long enough to gain a vision increase, you also gain Rogue Vision for 24 hours.

You can only gain Rogue Vision once every 24 hours, so posting more than once in the 24 hour period will not stack up Rogue Vision.

This will not impact the game economy, and is a way of giving out Rogue Vision without it having to be paid for.


I also have a second variation which is ultimately the same as the first one, the only difference being you have a chance to get either Rogue Vision OR a Durden Mapping Credit (perhaps a percentage chance of getting either one, more weighted toward receiving Rogue Vision since mapping credits are hard to get normally (perhaps a 75%/25% split, or even more than that)). You should still only be able to gain one of these per day.

The only sticking point I see with this is a sudden influx of people arriving in the business districts with lengthy posts, meaning that they would all be entitled to Rogue Vision and therefore undermining the sense of achievement behind getting Rogue. Plus, to put it bluntly, there are no measures to control the actual content of their posts (save the BD managers coming along and wagging their finger).

I do like this as an alternative to the Business District Perks suggestion, though. Maybe with some tweaking to control post content, it could work.

PC-Cassi made a viable point in the other thread about this variable and it is something that will be a challenge to tackle. I would suggest that the Business District Managers be responsible for selecting which posts warrant such a reward; after all, we only really pass blueprints and keep a general check on the forum. I see no harm in adding another string to the BD Manager bow, plus it would save any extra coding required for measuring post content. Those posts which are well thought out and can be categorised as Not Spam get nominated for Rogue Vision.

Again, even this is fraught with it's own flaws, but overall I believe it is extremely important to revive the Business Districts in some way. Improving vision doesn't seem to be reward enough for many users.

{Fairly certain there are already content checkers etc in place which check before awarding people vision/exp for a post so I don't think it would be too difficult to include this too}

the problem with the long enough post, people are taking the initial buisness post; ie the menu: then boxquoting it, then responding, so it appears their response is much lengthier than it really should be.

 Yes I believe that happens. I would call that spam though. And I believe that the rules of MR include a rule about spamming. That's where the player base should step in and either  hit that little 'bouncer' option and kick the person out - or report it to admins. I believe there should be some sort of responsibility when it comes to BD owners. I believe that most cities have a 'business district manager' that person, along with business owners, should be policing the posts in the BD

Yeah, overall forcing people to post would bring an influx of spam. Sure some people would actually be posting real stuff, but generally it would be a lot of junk. If you recall, certain leaders made it a requirement to have 20 street posts and at least 1 thread in order to be made. Just that alone accounted for how many junk posts? There should be some sort of benefit given to posting, to entice the userbase to do it more. However, the should have to do it seriously. I think that paying business owners is a bad idea. However, I think it's more on the actual leaders to help bring out voices into the streets by means of contests and the like. That way, the actual users could handle the sorting of the bullshit, rather than having the game coded to benefit the posters.