Board Thread:Officer's Pub (Staff Only, idiots)/@comment-4803039-20131106155352/@comment-422690-20131106175249

Affectos wrote: I think we need some kind of a guideline/policy like we have for "What qualifies as a Warrior?" for generating fair battles. This might be helpful in the future when we're looking at new users coming in when they accidentally make unfair battles, but also we'll have a reference to go back to in for the Unfair Battle Listings.

It's seems obvious, but one of the points would include Time Period (metallurgy, blackpowder, and era-specific guns).

Should this be something we go through with?

Pach and I tried to think of something like this a while ago. It didn't work at all.

Redkite wrote: Without limiting creativity, maybe guidelines for who should fight who (Being realistic) need to be inplace (sic) if they aren't already?

As mentioned, Pach and I tried this. It's impossible to set guidelines without limiting creativity. Generally, it should be intuitively obvious to users familiar with the subject matter to realize if a fight's unfair or not; we have the Rebuttal Policy so that cases of extreme bias won't skew this.

In essence, Pach and I tried this. It was shot down due to the fact that it would have to be very, very complex so as to not limit creativity. There's no way to do this simply and effectively.

Also, this policy would only be beneficial to newer users who need a guide. It would actually hamper more experienced users who find that interesting match-ups are blocked by said policy.

And since when did new users read the policies before doing shit, anyway?