4 Star Review?

[Bib Fortuna]

Was tasked for building a PC (minimum requirements) to play Rocket League. I was below the budget, all new parts, benchmarked the setup and everything and only got a 4 star review? Not sure what I missed.

[Turbo]

Cables, viruses, dust?

[Kyrosta]

Cables virus dust and dont forget to benchmark after you fix the pc

[SpikeyPancake]

same thing happened to me as well and there is no need to run an antivirus or dust a new computer build...for me it was world of tanks (minimum) i put all new parts that met the minimum requirements, below budget, benchmarked it as the email asked to and still only 4 stars, he didnt ask for any special cable setup.

EDIT: Seems that the Case was not new even though I am almost sure it was new. Try using a new case

[BonPadre]

A "fanboi" of sort for a specific brand maybe ?

Have been there, reading the requirements, and while req. told me an I5 6500 is enough, I forgot the guy told me like "My brother says AMD are the best" or "I'm a GIGABYTE fanboi" and that MSI GPU was screaming at me, and due to budget went for a non GIGABYTE Mobo...

Anyway, you dropping only text in that thread and no pics, nobody will ever be able to tell you what you have indeed missed.

All I know I ALWAYS manually save BEFORE handing back jobs, so I can always come back to a very quick save to correct what I missed... (a bit cheasy ? yes, now that happened like what 5 times up to lvl 13 to me, and mostly due to earlier inability to complete cables colors on non modular PSU that I wrongly accepted at the time)

[GrizzlyRawrz]

Maybe you failed the hidden deadline if the email said something like "can you make this your top priority" ?

[Brittimus]

One thing that has gotten me a few times. If you benchmark it, then realize you didn't plug in a case fan and plug it in, and don't benchmark it again then it doesn't count has having been bench marked. Does it make logical sense? No. Is it how it works? Apparently. This is a bigger issue on hard mode where it doesn't warn you ahead of time that you're missing cables.

[Bib Fortuna]

It was a new build so no dust, viruses. Nothing mentioned about cables or certain brands. I think it did mention all new parts which I used because I didn't have many used parts at the time. No deadline visible. I was about $150 below budget, met requirements to run Rocket League. Are there hidden penalties for pairing certain brands?

[BonPadre]

Originally posted by Bib Fortuna:

No deadline visible.

There is sometimes a sentence that makes a deadline an "invisible" secondary, it's the "can you make it quick please ?" and it results USUALLY in you needing to perform the job within 3 days from mail.

So I still hold my ground that you missed a secondary goal, but no one will ever be able to tell you which, because you have no pics from the mail and / or the receipt of the done job.

Originally posted by Bib Fortuna:

Are there hidden penalties for pairing certain brands?

No there is none of that

[Bib Fortuna]

Yeah, no pics because I had finished, and delivered it to see the rating. I'll keep the 3 day deadline for "quickly" or "high priority" jobs in mind.

Thanks for the info.

[BonPadre]

so really make an habbit to manually save before handing back PC's to clients, so in such moments, you can always revert back to a previous spot, and come back to said PC and check

[ShirtyGamer]

Originally posted by bratliff121:

One thing that has gotten me a few times. If you benchmark it, then realize you didn't plug in a case fan and plug it in, and don't benchmark it again then it doesn't count has having been bench marked. Does it make logical sense? No. Is it how it works? Apparently. This is a bigger issue on hard mode where it doesn't warn you ahead of time that you're missing cables.

I was wondering about that and that's an impossibly stupid design choice for a game like this...

Because if we think about it logically, the reviews are from the customers, right? They're not supposed to be a scoring system for how well you did as far as a hidden eye in the sky is concerned, they're the customer's views.

And will your customer know whether you ran a benchmark after plugging in a fan you missed? No. Will they know whether you ran any benchmarks at all? Probably not, unless you left traces of benchmarking software on the system, such as log files - and even then they'd have to be the sort to go digging for that.

So to me, that's an issue which needs to be addressed. Find some other way to formulate review scores than what the player did or didn't do that would have been of no actual consequence...

Especially seeing as the benchmarks take impossibly long to complete.

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Originally posted by theO:

Especially seeing as the benchmarks take impossibly long to complete.

The benchmarks only take exactly 1.5 minutes to complete. Which is reduced from the original 5 minutes the benchmark used to take in early access, which is still even faster than the 15-20 minutes they take in real life.

[Brittimus]

Originally posted by theO:

Originally posted by bratliff121:

One thing that has gotten me a few times. If you benchmark it, then realize you didn't plug in a case fan and plug it in, and don't benchmark it again then it doesn't count has having been bench marked. Does it make logical sense? No. Is it how it works? Apparently. This is a bigger issue on hard mode where it doesn't warn you ahead of time that you're missing cables.

I was wondering about that and that's an impossibly stupid design choice for a game like this...

Because if we think about it logically, the reviews are from the customers, right? They're not supposed to be a scoring system for how well you did as far as a hidden eye in the sky is concerned, they're the customer's views.

And will your customer know whether you ran a benchmark after plugging in a fan you missed? No. Will they know whether you ran any benchmarks at all? Probably not, unless you left traces of benchmarking software on the system, such as log files - and even then they'd have to be the sort to go digging for that.

So to me, that's an issue which needs to be addressed. Find some other way to formulate review scores than what the player did or didn't do that would have been of no actual consequence...

Especially seeing as the benchmarks take impossibly long to complete.

Well if we think about it logically then none of the game makes sense at all. It's a game and the customers serve the purpose of being a scoring system because it's a game. But I agree it is a very odd thing no matter what that plugging in a cable invalidates a previously performed benchmark.

[MrSkinny]

Anyone know if you get dinged for spending significantly UNDER budget? A lot of the "Must meet min/rec specs for GTA5" (or whatever game/software) can be easily met hundreds of $ under the budget. I'm getting random 4 star reviews while covering viruses, cable color, dust and brands and can't figure it out. Is it verified that "make it priority" is a hidden secondary objective?

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Originally posted by MrSkinny:

Anyone know if you get dinged for spending significantly UNDER budget? A lot of the "Must meet min/rec specs for GTA5" (or whatever game/software) can be easily met hundreds of $ under the budget. I'm getting random 4 star reviews while covering viruses, cable color, dust and brands and can't figure it out. Is it verified that "make it priority" is a hidden secondary objective?

Yes it is! "Make it a priority" means you must do it same-day or within 24 hours even though the mission / email will state that it can be completed much later. Even though the game will also show you a completion date of several days later too. This one confused me for a long time too.