Regarding personality being linked to participation -- the personality may be part of the problem but I'm more of the opinion that it's a time/motivation issue not a personality issue. The Dragoon team was actually one of the strongest teams at the beginning -- they only had 5 members but they ALL participated, which is pretty impressive. The problem was that they permanently lost two members, one of which was their mod and then they stopped getting members for a while. Imagine if the same thing had happened to the Black Mages or Thieves -- that would be a pretty significant blow.
I'm not sure what's up with Soldiers and White Mages. For some members, I think they came for the stamp and don't plan on being active. :/ But there are a handful of people on both teams who do participate pretty regularly, even if the team comms themselves are pretty quiet. If we do alliances next game, I'll do the comm-linking (so that will help White Mages) and I'll be pairing both Soldiers and White Mages with active teams (Thieves and Monks respectively).
(while considering the word count for the longer challenges, they probably would have gotten more points just for submitting to MWS instead of the challenge itself)
Actually, for fic, I purposely set the participation points so that this doesn't happen. If you submit an entry that's within the word count limit, you'll get more points for submitting it to a contest than you would for submitting it to MWS. But of course I think getting some bonus points for de-anoning might be a nice idea.
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I'm not sure what's up with Soldiers and White Mages. For some members, I think they came for the stamp and don't plan on being active. :/ But there are a handful of people on both teams who do participate pretty regularly, even if the team comms themselves are pretty quiet. If we do alliances next game, I'll do the comm-linking (so that will help White Mages) and I'll be pairing both Soldiers and White Mages with active teams (Thieves and Monks respectively).
(while considering the word count for the longer challenges, they probably would have gotten more points just for submitting to MWS instead of the challenge itself)
Actually, for fic, I purposely set the participation points so that this doesn't happen. If you submit an entry that's within the word count limit, you'll get more points for submitting it to a contest than you would for submitting it to MWS. But of course I think getting some bonus points for de-anoning might be a nice idea.