On Wednesday 03 January 2007 17:17, Alexander Nicolaysen Sørnes wrote:
If we are indeed to make further changes, I suggest that we allow a few cosmetic errors in the Gold and Platinum ratings, but leave them otherwise unchanged, then add a new 'ultimate' rating that allows no changes or flaws. We could call it 'Titanium', for example (or why not 'Roentgenium' :) ), or perhaps Diamond. In that case we should rename Platinum to Emerald or Ruby.
That way users not fearing a few extra settings can look for anything rated Gold and above, while the out-of-the-box lovers can look for Platinum and above. It should satisfy most people. The thing is, if adding single DLL override or crack is all that keeps a user from having a Windows copy around, he is likely to enter that dll override or copy the crack.
Kind of sounds sensible.
That would give us (borrowed from Ivan's post)
Paying customer - Diamond level, maybe Platinum level, decided on a case by case basis.
New user, unfamilar with wine - Diamond and Platinum level.
Wine expert user - Diamond, Platinum and Gold level, maybe Silver level, decided on case by case basis (e.g. 1602 A.D. blows up in multiplayer, works without flaws that don't exist in win32 in singleplayer)
Developer - All ratings.
Personally, I kind of like the Diamond/Emerald naming, but in the end I don't care what they're called. I think it'd be kind of nice for people to see what errors stop the app from reaching the next best rating, so going back to my 1602 A.D. example, if I don't care about multiplayer being broken, the app is essentially Diamond for me.
My 2 cents, Kai