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Should the old multiple tier system be put into effect?
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The Old Ranking System
Topic Started: Apr 11 2010, 04:27 PM (63 Views)
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I think that the guilds that are created in the future (hopefully) should be equiped with the old ranking tier that most of the guilds used to have, rather than T.N.G.'s two tier system of Writer and Novelist.

Pretty simple and straightforward.
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Phantom Menace
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The more tiers there are, the more accurately you can be placed.

TAL will always have its current ranks, as long as I run it.
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Yrolg

I agree. Only with a great variety of positions which people may vie for is there any hope for activity; the precision of positional accuracy in talent-status ratios would also be improved.
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Sira
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I'm not exactly closed to change. I simply inherited the Guild, I did not make it.
What other ranks, specifically, could there be?
Edited by Sira, Apr 14 2010, 09:13 PM.
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Well, TAL ranks work like this:

Penman is the lowest, and basically only requires that you have a marginally comprehensible story.

Scribe is next, which requires a basic plot that's comprehensible and logical.

Bard shows good potential, but hasn't quite reached a higher level yet.

Novelist is the highest rank most authors will reach, and requires a strong story with a solid plot and decent characterization. Reaching it is not easy, and it is certainly respectable.

Maestro is the highest rank, and reached only by the best -- this needs a great story that's outstanding in every aspect, and is (at least how I rank it) similar in prestige to being a member of TIGA. Few authors reach it, and those that do are normally leaders in the community and very well respected authors.

That's not me telling you how to do it, just showing you how numerous ranks can work within a guild.
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Capt
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I think a good thing would be something with a guild that relies both on talent a community interaction.

What was the guild that required something like that at one point?
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Yrolg

I think that community interaction is not an appropriate means of calculating one's literary talent. Overall activity may be used as a check on the get-and-go syndrome of people earning ranks and then disappearing, but it should not be used in the initial calculation and it should hold no relevance in a relatively active forumer's rank.

Whilst community interaction would be great, these ranks exist in order to identify users with their position in the talent field. This helps them to both find users of their caliber as well as to read the works of those the guild views as better, in order to become better their self. It is not appropriate to call a person a better writer simply because they stop in and say "hello" every morning.
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Yrolg
Apr 21 2010, 07:43 PM
I think that community interaction is not an appropriate means of calculating one's literary talent. Overall activity may be used as a check on the get-and-go syndrome of people earning ranks and then disappearing, but it should not be used in the initial calculation and it should hold no relevance in a relatively active forumer's rank.

Whilst community interaction would be great, these ranks exist in order to identify users with their position in the talent field. This helps them to both find users of their caliber as well as to read the works of those the guild views as better, in order to become better their self. It is not appropriate to call a person a better writer simply because they stop in and say "hello" every morning.
Yeah, I agree with this entirely. The only thing in terms of activity that I'd be a proponent of would be cutting people from guild rosters after x days of inactivity, which has been done in the past.
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