New AC Poll

[on_your_nerves]

There are many, many variations possible with the Activity Check, and the mods have decided that we are definitely revising it.

Given the myriad of options, we tried to put together a good proposal AC to put by the playerbase, one based around the comments we got as well as what we'd be capable of keeping up with given all the other things we have to keep up with. Since a monthly AC would involve a mod being occupied with AC two weeks of every month, we decided to see if you guys would be okay with a bimonthly one.

This is the proposal AC we came up with:

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AC would be bimonthly as it is now and follow the same schedule. Players wouldn't have to make AC with every character but would have an increased number they had to make it with if they played more characters. Someone with 1-2 characters has to make AC with only 1 of them. Someone with 3-4 characters has to make AC with 2. Someone with 5-6 characters has to make AC with 3 of them, and the rare few with 7-8 would have to make AC with 4 characters.

Players could make AC with the following options:

One open post

OR

Two threads of at least ten comments made by your character

OR

One open event/meeting that lets others mingle, such as a movie night or training session.

OR

One plot posted with open signups.

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Now, this AC is only going to be put into place if it passes with a majority vote. If it doesn't, please offer up suggestions/comments/criticisms in the comments. We'll keep tweaking it based on player comments until it reaches a happy medium and gets a passing vote by the playerbase. The poll will be open until May 31st at midnight EST.

Poll #10623

This poll is closed.
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 11

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Do you approve of this proposed new AC?

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Yes
3 (27.3%)

No
8 (72.7%)

Comments

[elementofloyalty]

Can you clarify how position-required open posts will fit into this before I vote? Are they on top of, cojoined to, or no longer required under these AC requirements?

[bonnypiperlad]

While I have no issues on most of the AC as it is written, I would like to suggest that perhaps the number of comments required for people who are going with the two thread option be slightly lower than 10 per character. If there are threads with multiple people participating, sometimes it's going to be difficult to get that many comments for each individual. As an example, a fighting thread with more than two or three people often dies out before that particular number of comments is reached, so it couldn't be used for AC, even though people may be actively participating in it for quite some time. And for those of us who write more in our tags, threads can often be shorter because more is going on in the tag. You can have a complete log that doesn't reach that length, but still accomplishes what the players wanted to do.

A thread with ten comments per character may be more reasonable for a comment spam game, but as we are a primarily prosed based game, I would like to suggest making it 5 comments per character at least for now. It's a number that can always be adjusted to suit the flow of the game later on.

[grimbiker]

I'm all right with this but I'd rather see the AC for number of characters go as follows: 1 for 1-3 characters, 2 for 4-6 characters, 3 for 7+.

I went over our stats and the bulk of players have 1-3 characters. To be specific, give or take a few digits because my math is terrible, 22 players have 1 character, 11 players have 2, and 8 players have 3. From there the numbers drop sharply to 3 players with 4 characters, and two each for 5, 6, and 7. Given that 1-3 characters is more common and still not very many, I think tweaking it like that makes more sense but YMMV. I honestly thinking asking people with 5-6 characters to be active with 3 of them in the same month is too strict.

It's not a huge disagreement. I'll be fine either way but it's just something I'd be more comfortable with.