Kijib and Cult Best Friends Forever Ultimate "Points System" Fix!!!!

Instead of talking about points overhauls, how about, I don't know, not reopening registration? Maybe actually moderating fake giveaways? - I know of several that are currently active (but I can't link to them because witch hunts). Getting rid of Humble Bundles and Dirt 3 from the pull-down list because, uh, too many people have points on the site where you're supposed to have points? Something?

The probability of winning a game whether you're conservative with your points or not is no different - one person will always win. An invite to this site isn't a guarantee that you'll win something and it's not a guarantee, no matter how much kijib would love to strongarm them into doing so, that winners will supply the site with a giveaway. And if that was the case, well fuck me silly, I'll go back to the Steam Trading thread on SA because I thought this site was something different.

I don't like this. Cost to entry should be based on the price of a giveaway, and most wanted games should cost even more points to enter.
With this "10 entries per day system" we'll have Skyrim giveaways with thousands of entries and almost zero chance to win, because, well, you'll lose nothing when you enter such Skyrim giveaway. But what if you must pay 300p in current point system to enter a single Skyrim giveaway, and you'll have to ignore any other giveways, and you'll not be able to restore these 300p in 24 hours? So, you can sacrifice the ability to enter X giveaways, but instead you'll get the higher chance to win Skyrim.

Sorry if my English is not fluent, but I think its still understandable.

Rather than changing the basis of everything (points to entries) wouldn't it be easier (and more fluid) to make the point generation more dynamic? What I mean by that is simply this. Allow the point generation to be affected by site activity, much as the new invite costs are.

If there are already 6 copies of Dirt 3 on the site, they don't need to generate as many points. And if one user is trying to run up a lot of giveaways ending about the same time, just to generate points, why not automatically combine them into one giveaway?

If being the 407th person in a week to put up a humble bundle generates no points, and the 26th copy of Dirt 3 only one point, then it gives people an incentive to space out those gifts. Obviously people are still entering them, so there is a reason to put them up. But if people are looking to generate any points, they'll have to space out those giveaways, or be more creative in their choices of giveaways.

Your big point, kijib, is getting people to be more selective with their entries, right? Well, the easiest way to cause that selectivity is to increase the overall selection. Then people start using their (now more slowly gained during the sale weeks just by the dynamic system) points, rather than having them pile up while the site is flooded with duplicate pointfarming entries.

i'm glad, CG doesn't like this idea, because it's nonsense. it does not solve a single problem, but it makes new problems

also i see CG telling, it's impossible to freely look through people's inventories anymore. But is there a way to trade games already? isn't it possible to start a trade procedure and show, you have a game without actually finishing a trade?

yaaay, I love kijib coz I like his nick!

Umm cult already made a topic about this why do you need to run away with the honour?

Can't say I like this as it eliminates giving out serial keys, and it makes people have to buy the game before they gift it.

I still hate kijib, regardless of that fact, I still like points better.

No, just no.
Keep the points.