Game Refund Calculator Balances Player Satisfaction
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Solution Overview
Problem
In online games, refunding in-game items and troops can lead to an imbalance, causing players to stop spending money as they receive what they requested, disrupting the game's fairness and balance.
Innovation Solution
A refund calculator system that prioritizes and determines the quantity and timing of item refunds based on user spending history, power, refund activity, and game lifetime, using modules such as user valuation, power, refund activity, and calculation modules to ensure fair distribution within the game.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If full refunds of in-game items and troops are provided to players, then player satisfaction is improved, but game balance deteriorates and player spending stops
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements partial refunds rather than full refunds. The refund calculator determines a refund amount that is less than the full purchase value, providing some benefit to the player while preserving game balance. This resolves the contradiction by satisfying players partially without giving them enough to stop spending.
Solution Approach 2:
The system changes the parameter of refund amount from 100% to a calculated percentage based on multiple factors including player spending history, game lifetime, power level, and refund activity. This dynamic parameter adjustment allows the system to maintain game balance while still providing meaningful refunds to satisfied players.
2Stability of the object's composition
If refund calculator implements complex prioritization and determination of item refunds, then game balance is maintained, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The refund system is divided into multiple independent modules: user valuation module, power module, refund activity module, lifetime module, and calculation module. Each module handles a specific aspect of the refund determination, making the complex system more manageable and maintainable while achieving game balance.
Solution Approach 2:
The refund calculator serves multiple functions simultaneously: it evaluates user value, assesses power level, checks refund activity, determines game lifetime, and calculates the final refund amount. This multi-functionality reduces overall system complexity by consolidating what could be separate systems into a single integrated calculator.
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AI summary
One aspect of the disclosure relates to implementing a refund calculator in an online game. The refund calculator may provide the ability to prioritize what users may receive items, troops, and/or any other in-game parameters. The refund calculator may provide the ability to determine how many items and/or troops the user may be refunded, the time frame in which the user receives the items, troops and/or other aspects of a refund.