I wasn't meaning to imply that personality was the only problem with the reasons certain teams were having inactivity-- so, I apologize if that was how it sounded. I'm 99% sure most of the inactive Soldiers just came for the stamp since I've never seen any of them outside of their intro posts on the team comm. Basically, I was just saying that a lot of the reasons I've seen people sorted into the Soldier/Dragoon/White Mage classes was because the applicant mentioned being more reserved: a team full of more reserved members is probably going to be more reserved in participation as well when compared to a team full of more energetic and extroverted ones. I didn't mean to imply anything bad about it, just something that I noticed...so, I think having an alliance with one of the more active/"energetic" teams with those particular teams would be beneficial (especially if all of the members were watching the alliance team comms).
I did know about the problems that the Dragoons had mid-game and I'm sure that that was primarily what happened with their participation towards the end of the first game. For a few weeks, I was also the only one posting regular reminders for both teams due to LJ's weird issues with those cyber attacks they were getting...which probably didn't help the Dragoons that weren't watching the Soldier comm as well. :/ As far as Soldiers go, we have a few members who do participate, but I know many are very busy IRL and they don't participate in every challenge...but that didn't actually start happening until mid-game (I think, for awhile there, the only active Soldiers were me and one other person, orz). IDK about the White Mages. I know Yin said she's tried to get discussions going and everything on the team comm, but that many of the team members there have been pretty busy IRL...she said that she noticed it seems to be the same members who participate over-and-over again.
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. ~Ahh, I did not notice that! O_O; Sorry! But, I do think some bonus points for de-anoning after a challenge might be a neat incentive, just to keep members interested in participating in other aspects of the comm besides the challenge parts. It probably wouldn't even have to be as much as 20...something like 5-10 points would probably be enough incentive for most members. ♥
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I did know about the problems that the Dragoons had mid-game and I'm sure that that was primarily what happened with their participation towards the end of the first game. For a few weeks, I was also the only one posting regular reminders for both teams due to LJ's weird issues with those cyber attacks they were getting...which probably didn't help the Dragoons that weren't watching the Soldier comm as well. :/ As far as Soldiers go, we have a few members who do participate, but I know many are very busy IRL and they don't participate in every challenge...but that didn't actually start happening until mid-game (I think, for awhile there, the only active Soldiers were me and one other person, orz). IDK about the White Mages. I know Yin said she's tried to get discussions going and everything on the team comm, but that many of the team members there have been pretty busy IRL...she said that she noticed it seems to be the same members who participate over-and-over again.
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.
~Ahh, I did not notice that! O_O; Sorry! But, I do think some bonus points for de-anoning after a challenge might be a neat incentive, just to keep members interested in participating in other aspects of the comm besides the challenge parts. It probably wouldn't even have to be as much as 20...something like 5-10 points would probably be enough incentive for most members. ♥