Modifiers

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Idea

To be able to prioritize tasks or motivate users to do more community work – a system of Modifiers could be implemented.

Possible ways to obtain Modifiers

• Achievements
• Task completion
• Streaks
• ...comment with more ideas

How modifiers affect Tasks

• The modifier, when active can affect the Task's base_value or contribution_factor
• This can affect User's task only or it can be Global Modifier for everyone (or in a specified location - this would require implementation of buff placement on map)

How are modifiers activated

• The easiest solution is to activate them immediately when acquired. This might pose issues that people won't finish tasks because they don't want to activate the modifier immediately
• A more complex solution would be to have them in some kind of Inventory and be able to activate them when needed
• A location based modifier would affect Users in proximity

How are modifiers deactivated

• Modifiers are deactivated after some amount of time
• Modifiers disappear from the inventory when used

Negative modifiers

• although negativity is prohibited in communities :D a negative modifier can be useful for prioritizing critical tasks
• e.g. if a task that is critical is not picked up soon enough, it will activate a modifier (possibly location based) that will affect lower criticality Tasks' value - so that people around are more likely to do the critical task.
• idea: unfinished tasks can create a modifier that will affect all tasks except the unfinished one to motivate people to finish the task