3rd April 2025, 10:38 PM
After discussion in the JV Discord, I would like to add some hypothetical safeguards and more reasoning for the more controversial suggestions:
- Name changes: Perhaps we could potentially add "Known Aliases" that display the previous 5 usernames of that specific account, while also retaining the 90 day username change restriction. 450 days is a long time for someone to figure out who you are. Due to the nature of high rank accounts at this stage, perhaps we could also add time restrictions for changing email addresses, and also add checkmarks next to email verified accounts that have also existed for "x' amount of days, like we already do with the Bubble Set. My biggest issue with the arguments against this is that someone can easily make an alt account and nobody except the admins would know who it really was because the admins can verify using IP addresses. And at this stage, all of the high rank accounts are in their own guilds titled "xusername alts" or something of the like. So you made a name for your account when you were 12. It was goofy and you didn't like it anymore as you got older. So you spent endless hours macroing and simming on your new account and grabbing all of the hats. On top of this you artificially boosted your guild stats by doing this. You may have even folded on these alt accounts too, and while that latter part doesn't negatively affect Stanford it does make the leaderboards messy. Where is the guild with high-ranking prestigious long-time players who actually played together and got a bunch of GP? I don't think it exists. This is about to turn into a tangent on how functionally useless guilds are at the moment so I'll stop here.
- No forfeit voting: I was expressing to someone in the Discord that troll levels with no level ranking speak for themselves. However after thinking about this more I suppose this could restrict player expression. If the community doesn't enjoy frusts or traps then so be it (just speaking in example). There are threads on JV2 that suggest maybe a certain amount of time played before allowing voting. I think this would mitigate impulse negativity, and if a troll decides to stick it out for that long just to vote 1 star then I guess more power to the troll. After thinking about this I believe this is more reasonable. What do you guys think?
-EXP formula change: Not enough people play this game. I've read through the threads, and the long time macroers and simmers don't want their work to be diminished, however I've also seen this same group proclaim that Rank 50 is basically nothing (it was actually Rank 65), so why not just revamp the EXP formula to be more generous up until Rank 50?
- Name changes: Perhaps we could potentially add "Known Aliases" that display the previous 5 usernames of that specific account, while also retaining the 90 day username change restriction. 450 days is a long time for someone to figure out who you are. Due to the nature of high rank accounts at this stage, perhaps we could also add time restrictions for changing email addresses, and also add checkmarks next to email verified accounts that have also existed for "x' amount of days, like we already do with the Bubble Set. My biggest issue with the arguments against this is that someone can easily make an alt account and nobody except the admins would know who it really was because the admins can verify using IP addresses. And at this stage, all of the high rank accounts are in their own guilds titled "xusername alts" or something of the like. So you made a name for your account when you were 12. It was goofy and you didn't like it anymore as you got older. So you spent endless hours macroing and simming on your new account and grabbing all of the hats. On top of this you artificially boosted your guild stats by doing this. You may have even folded on these alt accounts too, and while that latter part doesn't negatively affect Stanford it does make the leaderboards messy. Where is the guild with high-ranking prestigious long-time players who actually played together and got a bunch of GP? I don't think it exists. This is about to turn into a tangent on how functionally useless guilds are at the moment so I'll stop here.
- No forfeit voting: I was expressing to someone in the Discord that troll levels with no level ranking speak for themselves. However after thinking about this more I suppose this could restrict player expression. If the community doesn't enjoy frusts or traps then so be it (just speaking in example). There are threads on JV2 that suggest maybe a certain amount of time played before allowing voting. I think this would mitigate impulse negativity, and if a troll decides to stick it out for that long just to vote 1 star then I guess more power to the troll. After thinking about this I believe this is more reasonable. What do you guys think?
-EXP formula change: Not enough people play this game. I've read through the threads, and the long time macroers and simmers don't want their work to be diminished, however I've also seen this same group proclaim that Rank 50 is basically nothing (it was actually Rank 65), so why not just revamp the EXP formula to be more generous up until Rank 50?
