I see there is definitely a need for compromise. The back-stabbers want to find losers that will trust them. The honorable want to find players that won't back-stab them.
How to get them to unite?
Well, how about this: Let's give it a try!!
Bytro implements a player rating system. This system is community-driven. The rating system gives you the ability to thumb's up or thumb's down a player (or scale) based on perceived player traits: skill, cunning, deception, and other various styles (as I mentioned in a previous post). Then there's a comment section but all comments must expire after a couple weeks or maybe a month.
Then there's the part about selecting matches. In searching for existing matches, there should be an option to select whether to include matches where you've been blacklisted by someone in the match and an option to include where someone already in the match has been blacklisted by you. But, while you should be able to add players to blacklists, any name on the list should be automatically removed after 2 months (or less?).
But this blacklist should not be publicly available. It should only be your private list (not hand-written paper on your desk, mind you) and you should have the ability to share it with your alliance.
Now, for the part that will make Bytro pay attention:
They should implement a feature that allows people who've been blacklisted by you to mask their identity in a match until AFTER you've joined it. Therefore, your ability to not see matches where someone has been blacklisted gets overridden. And, of course, the only way to make this feasible -- and to make it Bytrician-approved -- is to require Gold to mask yourself from blacklist detection.
Then, to make EVEN MORE MONEY FOR BYTRO, let a player have an override-blocker that they can spend Gold on that will reveal the identities of all players in a match that have paid Gold to hide their blacklist-status. Thus there is a back-and-forth that makes Bytro happy while the players that are more adamant about hiding or revealing the hiders can spend some of their boughten and/or earned Gold.
Therefore, [usually] the nice guys win, the haters win, and Bytro wins.
EVERYBODY WINS!!!
And everybody knows.
"And knowing is half the battle."
It seemed like such a waste to destroy an entire battle station just to eliminate one man. But Charlie knew that it was the only way to ensure the absolute and total destruction of Quasi-duck, once and for all.
The saying, "beating them into submission until payday", is just golden...pun intended.
R.I.P. Snickers <3
