Community Self Management

As crazy as it might sound, players can organize themselves to create rules, guidelines, punishments, basically a small constitution. But why would this be better than the way developers create current games?

Why community self management will work

This system works best for games with a large amount of players in a sandbox-like environment, so its difficult to implement into other types of games, although League of Legends found an effective method. But for sandbox games such as:

• DayZ
• Arma RP servers
• Minecraft servers
• Garry's Mod RP servers
• and just about any MMO game

These games can use this system to allow players to play the game longer, by establishing a commitment with the community by helping create and amend rules of play. When the rules continue to change, the play-style of the game continues to change, giving the game strong replay-ability.

If the community can decide the rules in which players should behave, then the rules will have the potential of becoming far more balanced than any developer could achieve. Players can adjust the rules when they find an exploit or new in-game content that may change play styles.

When players are the ones enforcing the rules, it will still be possible for to break the rules, but with that comes the high risk of getting caught and receiving harsh punishment. High risk keeps the game entertaining, griefing can be an entertainment factor for players; so breaking the rules is an option, but it cannot be done frequently.

Possible Downside

It could be difficult for players to collaborate to establish their own governing system, so developers could use some tools such as the behavior modification examples used in League of Legends to reward and punish players to achieve this system.