KAPs information and feedback

Hopefully, you've seen that we've implemented a new points system in the last few days called Kick Ass Points (KAPs).

The idea here is that we want to recognise and acknowledge the people who help each other out in ODO, and we felt that having a way to track that other than word of mouth would be useful!

Every member of ODO can give and receive KAPs, but you'll need to have set up your characters on the site. For info on how to do that, check out the site's FAQ.

KAPs can be given out at omnedatumoptimum.red/give or from the overview page at omnedatumoptimum.red/overview or by clicking on the "left to give" button on the topbar.
You can see who's already been given KAPs recently at omnedatumoptimum.red/nice-list or by clicking on your score on the topbar.

We think that it's a great idea to reward our members for being nice to each other, so we're going to be doing some prize draws using the nice list 😀
These draws will not be advertised in advance, and they won't be at regular intervals. We may do one in a month, then two in the same day - we're crazy that way! What that means is that we advise against waiting to give people KAPs - hand them out when you think someone's been helpful, don't wait! You can give 15 people KAPs each week, and you can't give the same person KAPs twice (even by giving them to different characters).

If you run into any problems using KAPs, or have any questions, please let us know. We are fortunate to have had this system custom made for us by Hlopushka, so we should hopefully be able to fix any problems that we haven't found in testing quickly 😀

There's a script you can download on the overview page which makes giving out KAPs quicker in game, so we recommend everyone downloads it.

Thanks for being a great bunch of people!

Since I'm not the most sociable or active member, I'm just giving points to every cabal comrade I interact with in game, so 15 for the week should be about enough 🙂

My suggestion is, Change the "Gives to" textbox to a combobox populated with the Roster list (I think it should be easy enough...)

The give to text box already autocompletes, not sure what else a combobox would give? throw in the length of the roster and it'd be pretty unwieldy...

Can we check our KAP history: currently only last one given and received are displayed. What if I want to see previous points and comments, to know what exactly others think I did right?

It's coming soon

Might be an issue with kaps script. I used it to give 6 kaps, was at a fresh 15 kaps. Site now says I have -5 kaps.

This is clearly a bug, i have deleted the extra rows so you are good to go again, but if you can I would appreciate a detailed description of your steps in a PM

I think I just give KAPs when someone helps me in any way and I probably give my ungiven KAPs on the last day of the week to people who are most online. But what time is the weekly reset?

Friday, you can see the time remaining in overview. The idea was to have fresh KAPs for the weekend when people are most active.

Remember that you can always fire script in TSW and give a KAP without being logged in to the site. KAPs given when you are not logged in will be in pending state, you can then sort them out and approve in overview later. So no need to overthink who should get a KAP.

As we have now passed the 4 weeks since launch of KAPs and people probably noticed that scores are going down for some, I want just bring up again how it works.

The points you get from someone is there forever, however the nice list (primary score) takes into account KAPs only 4 weeks back for any given date. I will create an all time high score table as well at later date.

Why is it done this way? Well, it's fairly simple.

1 someone consistently nice and helpful will consistently score high no matter.
2 someone who is nice and cool, but just joined ODO should not have disadvantage just because he was not there a year ago.

In other words, just be good to those around you all the time and you will get recognized for it. (And no I do not mean literally all the time, everyone can be grumpy and have bad days, but that does not need spreading to others)