RP-bonus

RP-bonus

The term RP-Bonus is a term in Sport roleplaying for a bonus for participation in a sports tournament. This participation mostly means posting an RP, but also rosters can count towards the bonus. The RP-bonus was introduced in World Cup 4 by Brazillico and at that time simply differed between participating and not participating nations. Later, the formulae and the RP-boni became more complex. In current sports-tournaments, three concepts of RP-bonus occur: Yes/no boni, quantity-based RP-boni and quality-based RP-boni. However, some hosts merge the concepts for their scorination.

A Yes/no RP-bonus simply gives a bonus if an RP or roster is posted but does not distinguish between n00bish 3-liners and long, well-written RPs. Its advantage is the simplicity.

A quantity-based RP-bonus uses the length of each RP as criteria. The general idea behind this concept is to judge the effort, which was put into the RP. Character count or the amount of lines in a certain screen-resolution are most commonly used as criteria for length. The disadvantage is the complexity and the fact that long and dull RPs give a higher bonus than short and funny ones.

A quality-based RP-bonus uses the quality of an RP to determine the advantage. While this concept is enticing in theory, it is impossible to determine the quality of an RP without any bias.