Community Feedback/Suggestions Part I

[chacusha]

COMMUNITY FEEDBACK PART I
(ff_classchange & ff_land)

Here's how this is going to work:

- There's going to be two phases to this whole community feedback process. During the first phase, I'll have you fill out general polls asking you to rate various aspects of the comm and make suggestions. During the second phase, I will collect all reasonable/feasible ideas that were suggested and put them to a vote.

- This series of posts are part of the first phase. The polls here are to help give me a general idea of how the comm is going, but mostly they're here to to jog your memory on various aspects of the comm that might need improvement. You're encouraged to make suggestions in the comments as you think of them and to respond to other people's suggestions.

- Comments are unscreened. However, anonymous commenting is allowed in case you're uncomfortable voicing your opinions with your name attached.

- Not all suggestions will go on to be voted on in the second phase. Some suggestions will be rejected without vote and some suggestions will be accepted without vote, at mod discretion.

- The mods have already put some thought into community improvement. Here's a list of things we've come up with so far:

Suggestions that will be voted on in Phase 2:

• [GENERAL] Add Vagrant Story to the list of accepted FF games
• [GENERAL] Add original Kingdom Hearts characters (e.g. Sora, Terra, Organization XIII, etc.) to the list of accepted FF games
• [GENERAL] Use (different) alliances again in Game 2, or switch to individual teams

Suggestions that will be implemented without vote:

• [GENERAL] Track & reward member participation with a fanworks incentive system
• [FANWORKS] Allow people to set up "shops" as part of the above
• [FANWORKS] Rework the moogle_workshop fanart scale
• [SORTING] Remove the leader/supporter dichotomy from the app as it's made redundant by question 4

If you have concerns that would be fixed by any of the above, you do not have to mention them here.


- All suggestions (here and in the comments) are open to debate, so if you want to make an argument for or against an idea, you are encouraged to do so.

Onto the polls!


[Poll #1737741]


Polls/suggestion box will be open until Saturday May 21
If you need to change your vote, click on the "Poll #______" link at the top of the poll, then [ Fill out Poll ], then change your answers and resubmit.

Comments

[zerrat.livejournal.com]

On a scale of 1-10, how satisfied are you with the current class setup (Soldier, White Mage, Black Mage, Thief, Monk, Dragoon)? (If you're not happy with the class system, comment with classes you would add or remove.)

I ranked this as 7, because admittedly we do have imbalanced teams. I love the system, generally, but there's severe participation issues within the Dragoons and Soldiers (Breyzy pretty much WAS the team for a good long time) while other teams, such as Thieves and Black Mages, tend to participate a lot.

I don't know if this is because by grouping more subdued personalities, you're going to exacerbate existing problems (White Mages with shyness and reservedness etc).

Additionally, and I hate to say this, there's not a huge amount of distinction between the monks and the thieves during voting - we're basically boiling it down to the same essential traits, but with more impulsiveness and bluntness.

I don't know, I guess I feel that many of the monks could easy work as thieves or something else, and I'm not sure that the class is distinct enough to gain many members.

I feel like a traitor for saying this.

In general, what aspects of ff_land did you enjoy?

Pretty much everything listed, but the raging_fists is usually very quiet. I'll be trying to enact more discussion/team-building between this game and into the next.

Are there any communities you consider particularly over- or under-powered? (Please comment with details)

Hm. Well. As much as I hate to cripple the monk's major ways of gaining points, I worry that there is too much loading on fanfiction when compared to fanart. I mean, that's been the major way the monks have stayed afloat for so long. Without that, we're fairly low-powered in terms of participation. Half the time, it's just me and Eilia voting (Frei's got a lot of exams and such at the moment, so she's been busy) and if it's in ff_minigames, it's usually just me, and occassionally B (who has been doing great btw).

Anyhow, while I appreciate the ability to keep the team in the runnings, I'm still a little dubious about it. I mean, on a good week, I can post upwards of 25000 words (recently I've been stuck with writer's block, so it's been lower or even zero) so is this fair?

But then I look at Yin who posts fanfic too, and Breyzy with her icons, and I think that the Monks aren't the only team that benefits greatly from MWS.

What did you think about the alliance system this game?

Loved it, the thieves were fantastic allies. Perhaps the next alliances will be a little less unbalanced. The soldiers and dragoons certainly need to be split, perhaps the least active one going with the thieves and the remaining one with the monks. The mages seem to work well together, though.

[chacusha]

You have a good point about the Monks. They do seem to either be the same as Thieves or a variation on the White Mage type. It's hard, may need to think about this some more.

And yeah I'm okay with taking the fanworks points down a bit in general. But being able to get an insane amount of points in MWS by being insanely prolific seems to make sense to me. XD Seriously 25000 words in a week??!

[zerrat.livejournal.com]

Seriously 25000 words in a week??!

In a very good week! I can do 7000+ a day if I focus and don't get distracted. It's just that I always get distracted! The internet and ff_land actually stop me from doing monstrous amounts of writing, simply because I have a lot of fun. That and the new season of Masterchef Australia just started. Hnnnnngh.

[arivess.livejournal.com]

*SOB Z I CAN DO LIKE 500 A DAY AND I'M REALLY PROUD OF MYSELF IF I HIT 1000-1500* ;_________________________________________;

[zerrat.livejournal.com]

At the moment I'm aiming for 2000 a day, just because of everything else that's going on. Whether or not I can make that really depends on what I'm writing (my last chapter was absolute agony to write, maybe 200 words a day, if that).

Then there's also me going on the internet, looking at fanart, relooking at fanart, rewatching the Gurren Lagann movies (this happens a lot) and then there's TV, general procrastination and me toying about with plotting, scenes, other fics entirely and then going on the internet again.

So in 6 hours, I might do 2000 words, but only be writing for about an hour and a half. :s

All conditions perfect, got my flow on, no guilt about writing (like last year, when I lived alone), I could easily do 7000 words a day. But I'm not allowed to spend my day writing. /21 and still gets bullied into things by her mother

[glacialphoenix]

All conditions perfect, got my flow on, no guilt about writing (like last year, when I lived alone), I could easily do 7000 words a day. But I'm not allowed to spend my day writing. /21 and still gets bullied into things by her mother

(The only reason why I'm allowed to spend my day writing is because I'm a Lit major, so everyone assumes I'm Hard At Work. But - /23 and still gets bullied into things by her mum, so I feel you there >.>)

[arivess.livejournal.com]

I still maintain that you are really impressively insane. ;_;

[glacialphoenix]

I worry that there is too much loading on fanfiction when compared to fanart.

Part of this, I have to admit, is the reason for the overhaul of fanart points. I compared how long it takes me to write fic versus how long it takes Ari to draw a something that snags her an equivalent amount of points... and the discrepancy is huge.

I personally feel that if you really are that prolific (25000 words, Z, seriously? I am in awe) then, eh, we should let you have the points.