Comments on: Bring back tagging! User Protest Drive Gains Momentum

By: Cody McBlack

Cody McBlack — Wed, 21 Apr 2004 07:45:29 +0000

I dont want tagging back. The people who are complaining about this are the one’s who got their jollies by walking around threatning people with it. Tags had one good effect by being able to warn others of a scammer or other abuser. However, I learned how easily that was made into a weapon when someone tagged me. I asked them why they did and they said “It’s an interaction in a game. I felt like using it.” Then they labled me as a scammer, saying I took 500k from them. It was pretty clearly a dummy account. And my freinds started giving me balloons en mass to discredit this liar. But it still made me mad. The only regret I have about the new freindship system is what it did to Sim wrestling.

By: TBT

TBT — Sat, 17 Apr 2004 02:47:13 +0000

And making friends isn’t realy all that hard either.. So yeagh at 1st it’s a pain to repeatedly do actions to get a lifetime friend but the numbers start adding fairly quickly… and once there aren’t hard to maintain either… NO it’s not as easy as giving a balloon, but in real life u aren’t instant friends for life by giving a balloon either.. friendships are made over time and tso is simply trying to reflect that..

By: Urizenus

Urizenus — Sat, 17 Apr 2004 00:39:07 +0000

I dunno RB, I don’t expect EA to care about the protest, but it is important to put these complaints on record. And it is sort of cool to read the comments and get a sense of how important the tagging meta-game was on tso.

And Gina, I guess that’s right, but negative comments don’s stand out as well as a good enemy link. In this sense this new cheaper form of enemy linking is just that — cheap (like my suit). Having one won’t mean anything and scoring one won’t either. So it’s really not good for the tagging game i don’t believe.

By: RB

RB — Fri, 16 Apr 2004 22:14:16 +0000

This whole thing is brushed aside and disregarded. This petition is futile and moot. period.

Matter of fact, the whole P.O system is BS and not taken seriously. Ya, i’ll just make 500 “signatures” by myself and yeah that will show em. ha. Such easily done fraudulent use makes all of P.O have 0 credibility. Issue over.

As for the new web, yeah that does suck. But you know how EA likes do major changes rather than apply minor fixes to the original problem.

- RB

By: Gina Giancana

Gina Giancana — Fri, 16 Apr 2004 21:56:59 +0000

I’ve got mixed views on the new webs. I certainly like how it now forces the mafia role-players (the ones who have balls) to actually fight now like back when tso first came out – i always wanted it to stay that way, but then you had the kiddies who just wanted to tag and run and claim your owned that way. The only thing I don’t like is how long it actually takes to make a damn friend or enemy. As someone said on here I believe, it makes it easier to make an enemy now, all I have do now to get on your web is by entering the same lot, wave my little sim hand at ya, and boom your on my web for a nice little comment for all to see >:) – or better boo your little ass to death lol

By: dyerbrook

dyerbrook — Fri, 16 Apr 2004 20:19:39 +0000

I do wonder how this new system is going to play out. Will these two idiot taggers from SSG and BDSM fall away like so much dross because new haters will take their place? If they never come online to play these particular trial planet sims, will their old red balloons stay in perpetuity? It seems one advantage now is that I can write a balloon back to them — before that was impossible unless we were mutual.

I created a Balloon Memorial Park for either green or red tags at Flamingo Court in the back (site of the future mini golf course lower 9 holes). I’m afraid the oldie goldies are going to disappear and I want to memorialize them with something more than screen shots.

I find one thing about this really unnerving. Somebody you hardly know happens to interact with you on a lot, they appear in your balloon, and make other Sims curious and jealous.Another fallout…

Petitioning EA will accomplish absolutely nothing.

By: JC Soprano

JC Soprano — Fri, 16 Apr 2004 19:27:58 +0000

Uri,

Now there are true tagging missions. In fact, I just got a guy enemy linked successfully by 3 or 4 members with no problems with the new system.

JC Soprano
http://www.thesimmafia.com
Original Gangster

By: Urizenus

Urizenus — Fri, 16 Apr 2004 18:18:28 +0000

Fileplanet is the place: http://www.fileplanet.com/trials/

By: MattyS

MattyS — Fri, 16 Apr 2004 18:07:23 +0000

ty…but i was looknig for the FREE one that u ca get trials from if u never played before(my brother) U have to pay for those

By: Urizenus

Urizenus — Fri, 16 Apr 2004 17:44:08 +0000

I dunno, JC, some people — a lot of people — like to make tagging part of their game. It’s like playing paint ball, and you know it’s kind of fun to go on tagging missions. There is an art to it, as you well know. More telling than the number of signatures on the petition(now over 370)are the comments, which really do give us some idea of how big a part of the game tagging was to a lot of players.

You make a good point about EA only listening to Stratics, however, and the game shows the effects of this moronic policy. The users that are driving all the current changes are whiney nerf-happy board ho’s on stratics — about 1% of the two user base.