Reward Points

OK, so what are curse reward points, and how do you get them?

 

You can't. Despite the fact that it was announced almost 1 year ago, they have still been unable to implement this due to difficulty tracking downloads.

Curse do offer a premium complimentary subscription which is actually pretty useful on reflection - raffles, discounts and giveaways are available. Shame the client isn't available for me though

More info: http://forums.bukkit.org/threads/dont-forget-to-get-rewards.45463/#post-953200

 

Shame. Hope they add this soon!

Hear that EvilSeph ?

 

There are no Curse Rewards at this time.
http://forums.bukkit.org/threads/how-do-reward-points-work.96398/
http://forums.bukkit.org/threads/can-we-actually-receive-rewards-points-yet.87501/

 

Well that's a shame! Do you know if/when they will be implemented?

EvilSeph
Pweeze put them in! You know you want to!!! I haz cake

 

You can stop pinging EvilSeph now. We have talked with Curse on this, and its not an easy system to implement for Bukkit, since the majority of rewards came from Curse Client interactions (such as downloading of mods/etc). At this time, there is no means for the Curse Client to download plugins and install them on servers.

 

OK, thanks for the update!

 

Alternatives have been suggested, such as the griefcraft metrics system and the BukkitDev download count. They don't seem to meet the needs of curse though.

 

Using a third party metrics system, and a download counter that can be easily abused is probably not the best way to go about it, no.

 

It's all open-source.
https://github.com/Hidendra/

Bukkit could run their own version, eliminating the issue of it being third party. All plugins could be opted in by default, while giving server admins the choice to opt-out if they wish.

This helps users who are unable to donate to developers and the actual plugin developers.

 

Hmm... Maybe one based on activity or helpfulnell?

E.g.

1. Players get points for updates
2. Players can mark others as 'Useful' (a bit like on spout forums)

 

Points for updates? What about plugins that do not need to update as frequently as plugins where the devs constantly need to update.
I doubt a popularity contest would be useful, and you would see people trading "useful" points with others. Easily abused.

 

Even alt accounts to abuse points

 

Whats the point? Even if they are implemented they wont mean anything. This isnt Yahoo answers.

Offtopic; -Giggle- Bukkit answers.

 

Actually, it was said actual $$$ would come in return for points. I thought, at least ^^