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Mission System Formal Ratings


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In order to build trust between actors, NQ intends to add a 5-star rating system, but a rating system like this can be abused as well. I can give a player a poor rating and impact their ability to play the game regardless of their performance with respect to the mission itself.

 

However, there are ways to formally rate a player's mission performance. NQ should have the ability to track when or whether certain mission-related events occur. (I am focusing on hauling missions here, but the principle of formal performance metrics is not limited to this scope)

A few possible metrics for mission performance:

  1. Was the mission completed successfully?
  2. How quickly was the mission completed? (Could be elapsed time or presented as a percentage of the total time allotted)
  3. If the mission failed, why?
    1. Package was destroyed
    2. Package was opened by the player      <-- MOST IMPORTANT
    3. The mission timed out
    4. The destination container was destroyed

Any mission system should have some sort of indication of whether or not a mission failed because the hauler opened the package before delivery. The most important information to the player writing a hauling mission is whether or not the hauler will just steal the freight. Formal detail can be included in the rating system fairly easily, and it allows for a greater degree of trust between actors than would otherwise be possible, increasing the proportion of players who are willing to create missions and lowering the necessary collateral.

 

Addendum:

There are two major purposes to a rating system:

  1. To establish trust / penalize/disqualify untrustworthy players (e.g. did the player steal the payload)
  2. To distinguish performance between trustworthy players (e.g. how quickly a haul was delivered)

Ideally, the rating system would segregate these two objectives. There is a problem when a player is rated poorly because they took a long time to respond to messages or perhaps they were rude in communications, but when another mission writer sees this bad review, he wrongly presumes the hauler is not trustworthy.

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