Guild Spotlight: Discussion Thread

[Gharan]

Well two great choices i'd look forward to hearing the interview from either leader. More so the Sheeples for some reason as i'd expect maybe just a small amount of the interview to be humerous. I've always found the daily doings of a Sheeple both interesting and hilarious depending on the character.

[Karyuu]

Aside finding ways to advertise the spotlight further, it looks like polls are better received. So how's this: you get one week to send in nominations by PM again, and at the end all the nominations are put into a poll, which is going to be held for another week. The number of PM nominations isn't going to matter this time, although do keep in mind that if no one sends in any, there's no voting. So don't worry about sending duplicates. That way the votes are more open to the public and you can see the progress, so you're not being held at a distance as much.

How's the 1-week/1-week timing for you? Would you think making one or the other longer would be better? Any other suggestions you may have as well?

[miadon]

1:1 is fine for me.

[Narure]

Erm maybe have a list of guilds that have recived a PM vote so if someone sees a guild they would like to see in the poll isnt there, they have incentive to PM.

[Karyuu]

Right, either me or Sangwa will do that soon Mentioned that all the nominations will be revealed before.

[Narure]

Will there be a cap on the amount of guilds that can be entered in the poll? Not much of a problem now but if this really picks up and people actauly start PMing could lead to mayhem.

[Karyuu]

There is no limit for poll options - although going over 100 like I just did to check is really ineffective I think 20 is a fair maximum, but I really don't want to turn this into a nominations race, and so I'm not sure how to impose a cap at the moment. Any ideas?

[Narure]

Well just go with the ones that got the most PMs.

[Karyuu]

What if there are 17 guilds with several votes, then 5 more with a vote of one? Somehow 3 would have to be chosen from that latter group. I think there may be a time for the clear-cut systematic approach to pause - if there are no problems trusting the moderators to do a random choosing at that point (pull names from a hat, etc.) that may be the quickest way to move onto the poll.

*edit*

Alright! Finally got to the other account to count up the nominations They are as follows:

Explorers Guild - 2
Imperial Intelligence Agency - 1
Klyros of Fury - 1
Plakkem Hverrjanor - 1
Sheeples - 2
The Crimson Order - 1
The Enlightened -1
The Outlaws - 1
The Survivors of Vaern - 1

For a total of 11.

[Raleigh]

When will the interview with the explorers be posted? Here's my 2 dimes: delay it for its anniversary then

[Nurahk]

2 dimes?

So your opinion is worth 10 times more than the rest of us?

Close race, in the end.  Once more people start voting this is going to get a lot more interesting.  That's just my 2 billion dollar bank accounts.

[Allive]

hmm strange the sheeples a secerate guild and the explorers nearly totaly non existant got the votes yet i was told the hokyba da ojaveda got at least one vote and they aint there i smell something wronge here.

[Karyuu]

The vote for Hokyba was retracted, and the Explorers are a very active and quite prominent guild. Careful of the conclusions you jump to.

[Nurahk]

Added to which, the people who are participating are probably the older players who remember the glory days of the explorers

[Raleigh]

2 dimes?

So your opinion is worth 10 times more than the rest of us?

HAHA, as a non-native English speaker I thought cent = dime 

Here's something: Develop lots of areas, specially of wilderness and ruins with interesting things, and delay their release in game for 1 or 2 years to make a mass-release of new features later, then suddenly the explorers will have lots of things to do in game for a good time.

And as a curiousity, why was the vote for Hokyba retracted? Does it have something that does not qualify it for participating or did the person who voted on it change of opinion?

Added to which, the people who are participating are probably the older players who remember the glory days of the explorers

When was that epoch? 1 or 2 years ago?