Octarchal Auction (Discussion)

[zanzibar]

I've noticed that a lot with GM events.  Three GMs will walk into the tavern and have a conversation.  You might realistically expect up to four people to overhear it and offer their help given the scope of the quest and the location, but it always turns into 30-40, and each of those players is intent on sharing their life story with the GMs.  I think it's an argument in favour of having multiple GM events happen at the same time and in different locations, thus forcing the playerbase to divide among them.

[ThomPhoenix]

I will be interested to hear what you think were my OOC phrases during the auction. All I said during the auction was:
- to overlook with divination powers on the bidders, and check their purses
- warn people there will be other auctions, so it's unreasonable to have such bid bids
- ask some bidders why they wanted a particular house.

All the above was IC, not much roleplayed due to the need to check the database, but still IC.

About my char name "Talad Priest" it's quite evident he is not a normal priest, if it's the incarnation of Talad himself or not no one knows, but surely he has some great powers. Choosing another char name could be possible, but will not spread the name of Talad enough, so he is just known as Talad Priest.

To me it was the usage of smilies. And you forgot brackets one time.

(22:20:00) Talad says: please DONT move all together toward it though
(22:21:32) Talad says: ehmm... the idea was not to gather here
(22:21:40) Talad says: ok, np, now you are all here
(18:47:45) Talad says: Merchyryr be smoother!
(18:55:15) Talad says: please /sit
(19:13:49) Talad says: Raistlyin I think you can now only if you can spare 1 million trias
(19:20:49) Talad shouts: ah ah, ok. still lot of money.
(19:32:52) Talad says: let's hope the high bidders finished their money!

It was fine, just try to keep down on the

[Duraza]

I think it's an argument in favour of having multiple GM events happen at the same time and in different locations, thus forcing the playerbase to divide among them.

I'm guessing the time it takes to make a gm event happen plus the work other gms have do do limits that. In other words it will be harder to get more than one gm event running at once because I'm guessing there would be a limit on the number of gm's that would be available. Plus I'd bet that if you hard 3 events running at once at least one of them would end up being ignored, wasting the time spent to organize the event in the first place.

I do think its a good idea but I doubt it would be very easy to accomplish.

One idea is to hold events in places where not to many players are always found. For example instead of going to Harnquist's all the time try standing with raithen in BD. But as I said the only problem is it limits the amount of players that might show up period and in the end might become a waste of time.

I would say players should try and resist coming to gm events so much (probably the best idea) but I doubt many would try regardless....

[zanzibar]

It was fine, just try to keep down on the

Some other things I like to avoid is bad punctuation and capitalization, and I try to spell out numbers (one instead of 1).

I'm guessing the time it takes to make a gm event happen plus the work other gms have do do limits that. In other words it will be harder to get more than one gm event running at once because I'm guessing there would be a limit on the number of gm's that would be available. Plus I'd bet that if you hard 3 events running at once at least one of them would end up being ignored, wasting the time spent to organize the event in the first place.

I do think its a good idea but I doubt it would be very easy to accomplish.

One idea is to hold events in places where not to many players are always found. For example instead of going to Harnquist's all the time try standing with raithen in BD. But as I said the only problem is it limits the amount of players that might show up period and in the end might become a waste of time.

I would say players should try and resist coming to gm events so much (probably the best idea) but I doubt many would try regardless....

What ultimately needs to happen is the creation of a dedicated group of event managers.  These individuals will have an outstanding understanding of the settings and how to run successful events, and they will have the freedom to run events and give quests whenever they please.  Their way of playing Planeshift will be to go in game and run events - some very large and coordinated with other event managers, while most operating on a small scale and only involving a small number of players.

[bilbous]

I would think a good way is to have a sign-up sheet on the forums, accept only so many per event and put the rest on a waiting list. It would be a little OOC, I suppose, and might entail some people missing an event that would suit their character and being assigned the next which didn't but thems the breaks.
Before anyone starts telling me how much this would suck, let me just say that it would take a lot more thought than I put in to it, to make it into something that might actually work. It is merely a germ of an idea that will likely die due to too much fertilizer.

[zanzibar]

I would think a good way is to have a sign-up sheet on the forums, accept only so many per event and put the rest on a waiting list.

Too much structure.  It would kill any chance of sponteniety and realism.  It would turn roleplaying into play-acting.

[Zan]

  I think it's an argument in favour of having multiple GM events happen at the same time and in different locations, thus forcing the playerbase to divide among them.

Or make the rewards a bit less appealing. I bet you'll see a huge drop in participants if they know there isn't some one of a kind item at the end.

[zanzibar]

  I think it's an argument in favour of having multiple GM events happen at the same time and in different locations, thus forcing the playerbase to divide among them.

Or make the rewards a bit less appealing. I bet you'll see a huge drop in participants if they know there isn't some one of a kind item at the end.

I agree.  Perhaps there should be no reward whatsoever.  That way, people will only participate because it's in the nature of their characters.

[Xillix Queen of Fools]

Is this about the guildhouse auctions or gm events in general? 

[zanzibar]

Is this about the guildhouse auctions or gm events in general? 

Threads evolve, but you're capable of splitting the thread into two smaller ones if it bothers you so much.

[Zwenze]

My 0.02€:

The way of the Hammer guild organized auctions and tournaments like warriors and warlocks in the past. And there are a lot of things that you don't see if you are not part of the organization team. There will come several /tell per minute and everyone wants to know/do something from you, you have to keep track of main channel, guild channel, group channel and the biddings and I don't know what Talad else had to do during the event with his GM powers ( e.g. check biddings for validity). I can fully understand, when he makes typos during the heat of the battle.

And compared to our events this event was really troublesome, the people who organized it deserve our respect. So please people, when an GM or Talad will make an typo during an event or an auction, just imagine the stress he is under and show forgiveness. They did a lot of work and gave their best to deliver an enjoyable event. If I were in his situation I would not have considered punctuation and capitalization anymore. Its simply not the same as here in the forum or during a roleplay with some other players. This is realtime typing.

Kind regards
Zwenze

[zanzibar]

If I were in his situation I would not have considered punctuation and capitalization anymore. Its simply not the same as here in the forum or during a roleplay with some other players. This is realtime typing.

Right, because it's much too difficult to bother with correct punctuation when you're typing in real time.

[Draklar]

I agree.  Perhaps there should be no reward whatsoever.  That way, people will only participate because it's in the nature of their characters.

RPG has gone through so many changes... From characters that go on adventures for the promissed riches to characters that have in their nature participating when there is "no reward whatsoever"... Neat.

[zanzibar]

I'm not sure I understand your post.

[Waylander]

If I were in his situation I would not have considered punctuation and capitalization anymore. Its simply not the same as here in the forum or during a roleplay with some other players. This is realtime typing.

Right, because it's much too difficult to bother with correct punctuation when you're typing in real time.

I forget punctuation when typing in french all the time.  I don't believe Talad's first language is English and so, it would be silly to expect him to type perfectly, especially in real time.

Besides, it's not like it's much too difficult to understand what the player is saying, even with incorrect punctuation.