Well, by my count, 41 players would only need one post or twenty comments every two months, and only eight would be be required to make 2. (The contact list isn't up to date -- I dropped Orochimaru like a month ago, so the only person with seven is, I think, Al, who is so reliable about making and responding to posts it's certainly not an issue).
I don't think that's going to result in increased traffic to the comms, which is what we're trying to achieve here. What I think will most likely happen will be that people will continue to meet their ACs with closed, pre-planned posts or plots, rather than making to or posting to open posts. If there really are only 53 players-ish, and it's actually probably fewer now, the 8 people with 3 characters represent a sixth to a seventh of our playerbase, and increased participation from them could really make a difference.
Upping the spread like this feels like the AC has become a de facto "link us to any two threads you did this AC periods" instead of one, which, sure, is technically a doubling, but is still very low and still allows everyone to get by on pre-planned, closed, or otherwise uninteractive posts. Clearly I'm in the minority with my opinions, but I feel like people are looking at this not through the eyes of, "what is best for the game?" but "I hate AC, I don't want to do it." Taking that path is turning this into a purely symbolic vote, saying "we want the game to get better" but not actually taking a step strict enough to lead to that. (I caveat this with saying I'm against it being voted on to begin with, for exactly this reason.)
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I don't think that's going to result in increased traffic to the comms, which is what we're trying to achieve here. What I think will most likely happen will be that people will continue to meet their ACs with closed, pre-planned posts or plots, rather than making to or posting to open posts. If there really are only 53 players-ish, and it's actually probably fewer now, the 8 people with 3 characters represent a sixth to a seventh of our playerbase, and increased participation from them could really make a difference.
Upping the spread like this feels like the AC has become a de facto "link us to any two threads you did this AC periods" instead of one, which, sure, is technically a doubling, but is still very low and still allows everyone to get by on pre-planned, closed, or otherwise uninteractive posts. Clearly I'm in the minority with my opinions, but I feel like people are looking at this not through the eyes of, "what is best for the game?" but "I hate AC, I don't want to do it." Taking that path is turning this into a purely symbolic vote, saying "we want the game to get better" but not actually taking a step strict enough to lead to that. (I caveat this with saying I'm against it being voted on to begin with, for exactly this reason.)