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From: jimmy@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Jimmy Chan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Re: Rating system for Amiga games
Keywords: ratings
Message-ID: <8076@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu>
Date: 6 Jun 90 10:40:37 GMT
References: <305@uncmed.med.unc.edu>
Reply-To: jimmy@uhccux.UUCP (Jimmy Chan)
Organization: University of Hawaii
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In article <305@uncmed.med.unc.edu> rhunt@uncmed.med.unc.edu (Rick Hunt) writes:
>How about a rating system set up like the ones in rec.games.video and
>rec.arts.movies?  I wouldn't have the foggiest idea of how to set that
>up, but maybe there would be someone with the knowledge, time and desire.
>(Yeah, right :-)  Everyone could send in their votes and they would be
>compiled into a master list.
>
>For those who haven't seen the ratings list they are compiled from votes
>on a scale of 1 to 10.  Then the percentage of each vote and the total
>and average is displayed something like this.
>
>Empire     124    0000001234   8.8
>Federation  12    2350000000   2.5
>
>Does anyone think we could put together a ratings list like this?
>
>					Rick Hunt
>					rhunt@med.unc.edu

I was planning on doing something like that but on a more expansive setup
though I don't know if I know enough programming to setup something like
that.  What I was thinking was on the lines of besides the ratings, possibly
a checklist of type of copy protection (i.e. disk based, manual lookup, 
code wheel, etc.), hard drive installable, 1-2 drives, multitasking, etc.
Also to possibly keep a description or comment page of games as I am sure 
a lot of people would like to find out if they might like the game before
buying than just trying to find out from the back of the box.  

If netters like this idea I might just set up the whole thing initially as text
files and people could ftp them from our site (with the permission of the spud
in charge..8-)...) or I could e-mail specific requests to those who can't ftp
and then later get write program to make it easier to browse through the
list (depending if I can program it...8-)..).

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