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asgarddawning2012-03-26 11:49 pm
concretejungles) wrote in asgarddawning2012-03-26 11:49 pm
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IMPORTANT POLL: APP CYCLES
Hey guys! Tosshi here in Kida's account because of his shiny paid poll privileges.
We're here this time for a very important poll. We're sure you've noticed, but with an event-heavy, much-work-to-be-done game like ours, the monthly app round is leaving everything in a constant state of rushed. The current mod situation is often "Oh no, it's reserves already? We just finished the last round's stuff!", and we know this busyness has been causing some of our processes to lag. While some things have improved especially this month, others haven't, and a lot of that is the sheer volume of per-cycle things to do.
So, as one possible solution, some players brought up the idea of having less frequent app cycles. With a big game like this, it'd help a lot for our sanity and for you guys having information updated faster and other such things. Our proposal is thus: bi-monthly app rounds. Basically, apps would only open every other month. No other changes. It'd make things a lot easier on us as a team to do it this way, which should reflect well in our other work.
Of course, there's always a downside. People enabled right after a round closes may get bored of waiting so long, for one. Other options we haven't considered as heavily include capping the number of characters allowed in the game at once, capping the number of apps we process per round, and having continuously-open apps. Obviously each of these have their upsides and downsides but they aren't really what we want to do right now. If you guys want to discuss them or other ideas in this post though, feel free! Maybe we won't need to change anything at all once we've chosen our helpers (apps are still open here and we'll probably choose this week), but we're throwing this one idea out to you for now.
Please be fair and only vote once if possible! It's ok if a couple of people accidentally vote twice, but it'd be fairest if that didn't happen. Also, remember that the final decision is always in the hands of the mods.
We're here this time for a very important poll. We're sure you've noticed, but with an event-heavy, much-work-to-be-done game like ours, the monthly app round is leaving everything in a constant state of rushed. The current mod situation is often "Oh no, it's reserves already? We just finished the last round's stuff!", and we know this busyness has been causing some of our processes to lag. While some things have improved especially this month, others haven't, and a lot of that is the sheer volume of per-cycle things to do.
So, as one possible solution, some players brought up the idea of having less frequent app cycles. With a big game like this, it'd help a lot for our sanity and for you guys having information updated faster and other such things. Our proposal is thus: bi-monthly app rounds. Basically, apps would only open every other month. No other changes. It'd make things a lot easier on us as a team to do it this way, which should reflect well in our other work.
Of course, there's always a downside. People enabled right after a round closes may get bored of waiting so long, for one. Other options we haven't considered as heavily include capping the number of characters allowed in the game at once, capping the number of apps we process per round, and having continuously-open apps. Obviously each of these have their upsides and downsides but they aren't really what we want to do right now. If you guys want to discuss them or other ideas in this post though, feel free! Maybe we won't need to change anything at all once we've chosen our helpers (apps are still open here and we'll probably choose this week), but we're throwing this one idea out to you for now.
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 113
Should app cycles be slowed to bi-monthly?
View Answers
Yes, and I feel strongly about this
19 (16.8%)
Yes, but it isn't a big deal
37 (32.7%)
I don't care either way
24 (21.2%)
No, but it isn't a big deal
22 (19.5%)
No, and I feel strongly about this
11 (9.7%)
Please be fair and only vote once if possible! It's ok if a couple of people accidentally vote twice, but it'd be fairest if that didn't happen. Also, remember that the final decision is always in the hands of the mods.
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Another restriction that could be imposed would be not accepting applications for any characters that were not reserved and requiring the reserve link in the application. The benefit to doing that is that it prepares the mod/app team for how many applications can be expected to come in.
Something that Siren's Pull does that I think is a good idea is processing five applications a day and no more. This staggers the intro posts, and it alleviates some of the burden on the mods. They also require activity check proofs for anyone applying for anything after the 2nd character - which helps prevent people who are already characters squatting take on even more characters.
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...is it too late to change my vote
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