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[chacusha]

This post is dedicated to any concerns or suggestions for improvement you may have for ff_land. Proposals for major rule changes will be addressed and voted on between rounds.

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[chacusha]

Thank you for the suggestion! You have a very good point -- we're tiny right now and six teams is a lot. I want to keep the classes relatively separate but I do think it's a good idea to have two teams be allied into a larger team, and combine their point totals. This could be doubly beneficial because roax brought up the possibility of having very uneven teams due to the sorting process, so one way to solve that might be to pair up the largest team with the smallest team, the second largest with the second smallest, etc.

Also a note: this comm is going to be a little strange in that there will not theoretically be limits to how many points one person can earn because there will be a fanworks comm where people can always post fanworks for (a smaller amount of) points. I based this off of another comm (westerosorting) where there were about 12-18 members in each team towards the end of the first game and it still worked out. Obviously we're quite a bit smaller than that right now, though, so I'm willing to do some kind of team-combining thing if necessary.

I hope this is a good answer, and thanks for bringing this up. :)

[chacusha]

Thank you for the suggestions. I must say, though, that regardless of which comm organization is better, I think it's a bit late to reorganize. XD BUT I will try to explain why I organized the communities in this way, and maybe convince you that we'll be able to make this system work.

I wanted different communities to have very different kind of activities, and I wanted people to be able to watch or un-watch communities based on their interests. For example, if you're not really interested in seeing fanwork contests, you may un-watch ultima_arena. Or if you don't like the fast-paced small activities of ff_minigames, you can un-watch that. But obviously I don't really want people to un-watch the main community which has important announcements. That's why those three communities which would really be one in a normal landcomm, are three.

I wasn't sure where people would be coming from in the Final Fantasy fandom, so that's why I separated traditionally land comm-ish activities into ff_minigames and put more regular contest activities into ultima_arena.

This setup also has the added benefit of allowing the minigames mod to still participate in contests and vice versa (I mean, we don't have a contest mod but if we did, they'd be able to participate in screened-comment minigames).

My intention was that it would be a very rare person who's able to participate in every activity consistently. I wanted there to be a lot going on for different tastes, and not participating in everything is completely okay.

I know this idea is rather ambitious, but I also know it can work because I've seen it work before in a landcomm I participate in (it's not strictly a landcomm but very similar). I realize it can be jarring coming from a straight-up landcomm to this. Don't worry about giving feedback, I appreciate that you've already put time and thought into this community, and reading this comment made me realize where there needs to be more organization. I'm trying to eliminate all the major sources of chaos right now, so give me a bit more time, and then we can re-evaluate the system?

By the way, comments like this can be posted as an entry to judge_magisters, just so you know. :)

[chacusha]

Yep, that's exactly it -- individual members do what they're strong in and what interests them. Having a diverse/well-rounded team is important too. :)

And... yeah you have a good point. I didn't think about the reminders. At westerosorting, they don't really have small, frequent activities other than sorting, so I can see that having to do reminders for ff_minigames might irritate people who don't have an interest there... :S But my team mod would often post a weekly reminder for sorting about 24 hours before the apps were going to be stamped, and that didn't really seem to bother people, so I hope it'll be the same way. Maybe you could have two reminder posts a week -- one for stamping/minigames and the other for minigames/contests. That way if someone doesn't like one type of activity they can do the other?

I hope I didn't sound over-defensive in my reply, by the way. I really appreciate the feedback and having thought about it, it might have been better to combine ff_land, ultima_arena, and ff_minigames... But I hope we can make this work too. :)

And yeah, I just want mods to be comfortable posting at judge_magisters. I know it's only been me posting so far, but it's for all the mods to use, including team mods.

[chacusha]

Good point, I'll be sure to do this with activities in ff_minigames from now on. I don't think it's really necessary for ultima_arena because I don't see there being a lot of comments, and they'll all be hidden from most members anyway.

[chacusha]

Oh that sounds really fun! I'd love to have a post to talk about favorite characters! I mean, airship_lounge's purpose is basically to be a place for those types of posts, and anyone can post entries there, so if you like, maybe you can start us off? :)

[chacusha]

Sure, that's a simple enough change. I've darkened up the text for ff_land and ff_classchange so far. Does it look okay or is it too light still?

[chacusha]

Hm... I mean, I did darken them, but everything is still a shade of grey so the difference isn't very dramatic. If you compare the text in ff_land to the text in moogle_workshop you can see the changes I made. If you can see the difference and it needs to be darker, I can change it again.

[chacusha]

Ack, sorry but now I'm confused! Moogle_workshop has the old colors (light font) and ff_land has the new colors (slightly darker grey font). Do you like moogle_workshop's colors better, or ff_land's? D:

[chacusha]

Okay I went through and changed them all. Hopefully the text is darker now, and not lighter. :)

[chacusha]

SUUUUUPER LATE REPLY, but a few months ago, I read this, thought it was a cute idea, and so I went to go check how time-consuming it would be... And then I realized that I don't think any FF characters other than the ones in 7 & 8 actually have official birthdays, so I was thinking it might be kind of weird if it's only the 7 & 8 people who get birthday greetings or whatnot.

And then I proceeded to neglect this comment. D: But yeah, I'm thinking we should maybe not do it unless there are more games where the characters' birthdays are known.

[chacusha]

Yep, we will be having a conservative members' cut. For more info see point #5 over here. The cut will be announced in ff_land during the break, and I'll ask the team mods to make multiple reminders in their team comms before the cut actually happens to make sure people didn't miss the post or were on hiatus and came back recently or whatnot.

[chacusha]

Right now, we actually do have a shop system, but the main form of currency there is gil rather than points. It's kind of hard to explain, but basically, you can set up your shop however you like, which means you could have a shop that specializes entirely in sigtags if you so desire.

But the thing about sigtags is that currently they don't get points in moogle_workshop... This might change next game but as it is right now, you'd be able to fill other people's requests and post your work in moogle_workshop, but they wouldn't get your team any game points. (You would gain gil, though.)

Does that make sense? Basically, we already have a shop system that you can use if to offer sigtags to people. However, we currently don't have a points system worked out for sigtags, but this is something that can be changed starting next game.

[chacusha]

Sounds like an interesting idea! It sounds similar to what Eilia was doing with her random encounters, but more simplified and manageable. I'll bring it up with the mod team. :)

[chacusha]

Awwww... I will miss you. :( But that's all right, I'll let the other mods know.