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Here's an interesting question. With all the merges being completed, what happens with the top 100 list now? You have houses that people put in so much time and now they have 0 visitor hours. Do you think now that all the merges are completed they should reset the top 100 list and give everyone a fair shake at the list?
I agree the top 100 list needs to go away. I stated before they should make it like ebay... positive, negative and neutral comments. The higher the positive rating, the higher up the list the house is. This will combat a few issues. #1 Visitor hours will no longer count towards the top 100 list. Thus, even if free accounts do count in hours, it won't make a difference. #2 It would cause the top 100 list to be reset. This is important to give anyone who brought over a "Top 100" house from another city a chance to get it in the top 100 list again in EA Land. Right now with the housing situation I don't see a house being able to crack the list without a reset.
Now I know what people are going to say. "We have worked hard to be #1. Why would we want to reset the list?" I say this... you can't please everyone all the time. If changing the top 100 list at the same time to make it more fair, then I think it's for the greater good. But, I don't currently have a top 100 house so it's easy for me to say all this. I just wanted to throw this out there for discussion.
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No, I don't think the lists should be reset. People didn't have to wait for the merges, they chose to knowing that the consequence would be that there would be avatars already in the city who had a *leg up* on them in becoming established, yet they still made that choice....so I don't think it's fair to punish the players by obliterating *their* work just because they decided to go in on the bullet train. That would totally negate the purpose for having bullet trained in the first place, giving up the things they did in the process. That would make that all for nothing.
The positive, negative and neutral rating is a good thing, but there would need to be some way to limit the ratings to one vote per IP address in a 24 RL hour day, so as to not 'pad' votes in either direction, either by giving somebody a whole bunch of positives, *or* a whole bunch of negatives that aren't warranted. If some kind of policing can be done to prevent that potential for abuse, then I'm all for it. That would actually make being #1 actually MEAN something in terms of not only how long you're open but how *well* you host. There's too many people just proping their door open and calling that hosting, when that is not honestly what hosting is about. It's about way more than opening your lot and making sure there's food on the table. That bare minimum should earn somebody a place on the list, but by no means a top 20 position, maybe not even a top 50, because any tom, **** and harry can do THAT. Hosting is something that requires effort and skill and should be rewarded as such, IMO.