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]

Wouldn't a group thread count under the mingling thread? I read that as being IN one, but it occurs to me you might have meant "posting one".

I'm really concerned about AC being watered down to the point where it's still trivial to make it. (I went on a much longer rant lower down in the post on this.)

That being said, and admittedly tangentially... I'm worried about closed or semi-closed posts being used to meet AC. The more of those we see, the more shut-out everyone who doesn't plan or meet an arbitrary criteria thread in that post is. If we're really trying to get more open posting, then allowing people to just knock out a private two-person post for AC purposes defeats that point.

Uh, it's kind of awkward to be saying this directly considering your detective post is what got me thinking on this, so please don't think I'm trying to single you out.

[on_your_nerves]

No, a group thread wouldn't be, not for everyone. A group thread counts for the person organizing it, IE, you can make AC by providing a post to mingle. So the players bringing this up have a valid concern. Also, even in the case of mingling posts, the post would have to be open to count, so the detective post in my case wouldn't, but movie night, which was open to everyone, would be.

The terms for that are strict enough to encourage more open posts for them to count at all, but don't take into account folks tagging into a mingling thread rather than throwing it, so I can see the concern the players have with this.