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

[grimbiker]

First of all uhm, no. I'm not actually worried about threads reaching ten comments, not that I'm saying it isn't a justified concern that shouldn't be brought up, it's just not one that I share. Not to mention people can have more than one concern with how this is laid out. I'd appreciate it if you took my, and others' concerns at face value. Simply because we're disagreeing doesn't mean the whole notion is being tabled. If we vote no on this the mods will go back, tweak the options, and put it to a new vote.

I think we're looking at AC differently. While AC can encourage posting- and that's mainly what we're trying to do- I think it principally makes people look at their characters and go "am I being active enough or do I really need to drop?" Increasing AC isn't going to fix our problems, we have to do that ourselves. If you increase it too much then it stops being incentive and starts to be more anxiety provoking.

I really don't think that most people are going to put up posts that are closed just to make AC. If you go back and look at the posts, most of the those up are opens. The ones that aren't are either plots, plot related, department related.

[bonnypiperlad]

Anna's right. I think everyone here is looking at AC differently - and we do all have different concerns. I'm focusing on comments, since I saw a potential issue with the way it was set up. She is focusing on AC as it's being proposed for multiple characters, which isn't something I'm as worried about - and, for the record, I think her proposal there is a viable one.

We're all expressing our thoughts in regards to this while we have the chance to, and if the proposal as it stands doesn't go through it'll get revised and put up again. If it does go through as it is then that's what the game wants, and then it's up to the players how they want to proceed with it.

I honestly do not see where you're seeing that there's this undercurrent of fear in this discussion, however. There's concern, certainly, but again, I really don't think anyone's going to be freaking out over making AC - or putting up a lot of closed posts to make the thread count. If that does happen, then I'm sure the mods can adjust what needs to be adjusted.

I do think you have some good points about people making more of an effort to do open things, but I don't necessarily agree with you on the methods of achieving it. Which I think is fine. We're approaching this from two different points of view, so we're not going to agree on everything.

As I said before, I'm definitely willing to see how it goes. And I'm certainly not worried about making AC at this point in time, even if the proposal stands as is. All I'm doing is pointing out what I see as a potential issue and expressing a wish for more flexibility, which I think is reasonable.