Points added, currently can earn only through first track completes

Points are the main units of progression of the game and will be used to compare relative experience / skill of other players.

Coins will be the only virtual currency in the game that will be earned through daily achievements (soon), campaigns (after achievements), races (a little further out) and author status / ranks (little more further out). The plan is that coins can be spent to modify cosmetics of your player and player vehicle as well as cost to upload tracks. The idea behind tying coins to track upload will be to have players play at least x amount of time before uploading a track and also trade off upgrading cosmetics of their player versus submitting a track, for authors that have tracks ranked well they will have opportunity to earn coins based off of how well their tracks do.

 

Definitely, community classic track authors we will be looking to give some "perks" like that stay tuned

The intent of charging coins is not to be prohibitive to prevent quality tracks from being uploaded, the intent is to hopefully prevent / discourage millions of skateboard tracks.

 

Definitely want/need to add rewards for tracks but will need to do it in a way where it can't be gamed.

 

What do you not like about this idea and/or what are your concerns?

Without providing details on what issues you foresee we have a tough time responding to feedback.

 

1. Coins will be earned through daily achievements that vary in difficulty. Example: get a daily achievement for completing 1 track... we will be careful to not make it preventative but instead have a gate say 1 week of activity playing to submit a track or something like that
2. It is our intent to identify top authors and reward them with coins through some kind of achievements so that they are not sacrificing upgrades / costumes, so for players that don't make quality tracks they won't be rewarded by the community, that is the idea at least anyways!

 

We will definitely be listening for feedback from the community and adjust as needed, it is not the intent to prevent players from uploading tracks. But it is well known that assigning a cost to something, even virtual currency that can be earned through playing the game, will/should dramatically reduce spam on a site.

Our plan is to allow for uploading / sharing WIPs at no cost so that players can share and get feedback on their tracks before they submit.

 

And now this one is way out there, but we want to consider adding a feature that allows authors to get "donations" so if players really want to see them submit a track they can "donate" x coins. That is a little ways out there but we would want to look at things like that that reward authors with tracks that are well received.

We are also considering guidelines around submitting tracks including no tricks to promote rating like this track: http://www.freeriderhd.com/t/1464-a-nice-glittccchh tracks like that will take manual enforcement