Patent ID: 9533218
Date: 2017-01-03
CPC Classifications: A63F

Claim:
1. A system for moderating communicative behavior between users in a virtual space, the system comprising: one or more physical computer processors configured by machine-readable instructions to: execute an instance of an online game, and to use the instance of the online game to facilitate participation by users in the online game via client computing devices wherein the online game facilitates battles between game entities associated with and/or controlled by the individual users in the online game, the individual users including a first user, a second user, a third user, and a fourth user; manage inventories of virtual items under the control of the individual users in the online game, such inventories including a first inventory of one or more virtual items under control of the first user in the online game; host a chat session between the users, wherein the chat session is presented to the users through a chat interface on the client computing devices; receive a selection entered through the chat interface by the first user of a requested retribution action against the second user in response to a perceived offensive action initiated by said second user, the selection of the requested retribution action pledging a bounty of one or more virtual items in the first inventory to any user that successfully makes retribution to the second user in the online game; determine whether or not a requested retribution action should be imposed against said second user in response to the selection of the requested retribution action, such determination being made based upon at least one of one or more predetermined conditions being satisfied, wherein a first predetermined condition must be satisfied at least partially by one or more actions of the fourth user, and wherein the determination as to whether the requested retribution action should be imposed against the second user based on at least one of the one or more predetermined conditions being satisfied is impacted by whether said first user has historically sought requested retribution actions which have not been collaborated by other users; initiate, responsive to the first predetermined condition being satisfied, the requested retribution action selected by the first user as an initiated retribution action against said second user; and monitor battles in the online game involving game entities associated with and/or controlled by the second user, and such that by virtue of initiation of the initiated retribution action, and in response to one or more game entities associated with and/or controlled by the third user defeating one or more game entities associated with and/or controlled by the second user in a battle in the online game, the bounty of one or more virtual items is moved from the first inventory to a third inventory associated with the third user.