Since we are approaching our 300th stars this weekend we figured it might be fun to add a familiar twist to it – banned stars.
We understand randomize has not had the time to do much lately but we are trying to do with what we have and are able to do.
The way it works is rather simple. The person who is evicted ends up being banned for the duration of the stars game. The ban could happen at day change, a bit after day change OR it could happen when the percentage is revealed. This has the potential to add another twist with voting and making sure your votes are locked in at all times.
The final 3 will not be banned and will receive an additional prize in T$.
1st place receives an additional 150
2nd place receives an additional 100
3rd place receives an additional 50
That and you get to have bragging rights that you won Stars 300 and join the users who won Stars 100 and Stars 200.
The bans will not count as anything towards your ban history. If you are one of the users whose next ban is permanent then you are still eligible to join and it will not count.
If you have any questions please post below and I will make edits or use http://ask.fm/TMod2014 or moderation@tengaged.com. I will post this blog again on Friday.
Best of luck to those joining.
Edit: We can not drop the level for joining. Only randomize can do that.
Edit: We are taking suggestions for future stars and some suggestions are already being considered.
Edit: Depending on the raffle winner, especially if a newer player, we will mail them personally asking if they still want to participate or if they would like to opt out.
I am always open for suggestions joe1110. But without randomize we can only do so much.
If I needed an excuse to ban somebody it would not be hard to find one McBenjamin
I like the idea of the T$ prize.
As for the banning though, I don't think it really does anything for the game, like maybe banning at percentage reveal woulda little but idk. What would be cool is getting whoever is nominated banned right at DC, and they are only unbanned once the percentages are revealed. Just an idea
oh so u can add T$ but not take? cryin wellll i can u need to give more T$ to the winner i mean its like 370 to enroll and winner gets 400 i think it should be way higher than 150 but ok lol
i can't rly think of anything else maybe you should make a blog asking for suggestions
i thought everyone would get banned at the start and then get unbanned as they get evicted
that would be more fun x
people would be freaking out because they wouldnt have control over whats going on
Unfortunately there is a chance someone could enroll who didn't see this blog, and what if they didn't want to play in a stars where they'd be banned, because say for example they're on a survivor tribe and can't risk that? Just seems like a good idea that won't pan out well.
is there gonna be a fair system because you guys could literally ban the people you dislike before dc & keep people you like around until after dc, so if they can change their votes if they wanna
so basically this could turn into a biased situation
right after the game enrolls, there should be random nominees for 16th. sort of like how fastings glitch sometimes and 2 people are nominated at the start of the game without people actually nominating
We should do opposite stars
where the people with the least amount of votes would get nominated, and the person with the lowest percentage gets evicted
wow for a stars idea wanna do duos (as in you were just to make everyone in the cast have a duo, which they and only they are aware of unless they tell the rest of the cast) and if a duo makes final 3 together, everyone else in the cast gets banned for a week??
It would be ~fun~ idk when you'd do it, but it would be easy to do because you'd only have to mail people their duo once and it would impact the game and be nice and affect their gameplay by trying to figure out who each other's duos are!
Just permanently ban everyone who goes into it; it's likely they all deserve it for one reason or another anyway, and no one would miss them!
All the same, it's fun to see one of the mods doing something special for a milestone Stars. Shows that you care about your site and want to have some fun with it and its silly users. Can't wait to see this unfold; should be hilarious!
I love this idea! I actually thought of this same idea but i think it was for a frookies instead. This should definielty be brought into other games. You could have like ever 100 games is a banned game meaning if you don't win or make finals you get banned for a week or day depending on the game. Tengaged_Moderation
It was done before, but
Secret Pairs - The pair that lasts the longest both get an extra amount of Ts (maybe what they paid to get in, which might actually entice people to work with their partner)
SUGGESTION: Stars is completely normal but once final 3 hits, have the jury (4th place to 10th place) (only gonna do 7 jury to prevent 3-3-3 ties) vote one of the final 3 as who they think deserves to win based off game-play or what not. Then reveal the winner and they get an additional 50T or something for their hard work :')
Note: The public is still voting every round and will still vote for the winner, the jury is just like an added thing
also ALgo Stars. ban everyone as soon as it starts and let the algo work its magic, no speeches, no locking in noms, no nothing!
Added Twist: Maybe unban everyone for hte first 5 mins of daychange and let them scramble then ban everyone after 5 mins so they have 5 mins to scramble for votes LOL!