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

[roax.livejournal.com]

I feel like such a bad mod. I totally forgot we have a calendar >_> Maybe it will help me in next round.

About sorting -- I think the classes fits and I did think about asking if you have ever considered to change them somehow but I have no idea how we could change them. Anyways, I really like job class system but sometimes I feel we have too many teams. Sure, we have alliances now too but I don't know...I am indecisive with stuff like that. I also have no idea what teams we could actually remove. I think everyone got used to their own teams so I'd feel guilty with picking any team to remove. I will okay with whatever you decide.

"Is 50 points a good amount for referring someone to the comm?" -- It seems I was only one of a few who think that. I don't know, maybe it's because I only received 25 points even if i referred. my friends, lol *selfish* But honestly, it's such an easy way to get ahead of another team. I don't think any of our members do it but logically -- if you see your team losing, you can just make someone join, refer you, you get points, they are never active. I never thought it was a lot until i actually started to sort applications. It's especially a lot compared to how we get only 5 points for voting. It's harder to vote than to refer someone. Sorry for honestly, it seems no one really wants it to change but i thought i could add my 2 cents.

"Are there any communities you consider particularly over- or under-powered? (Please comment with details)" -- lol do I even have to answer this? I am not active on fanwork community so I have no idea what the situation with Monks is but from what I have heard, they got most points from his fics lol. Soldiers and Dragoons are definitely under-powered. Although I am glad to have Dragoons like thedrowned, laifan and stormloire. We might not the the most active team but at least we're trying. Just look at how we got 200+ points in last week of the game. Well my point is, maybe Soldiers are really the most under-powered team. I usually see only Breyzy working really hard on earning points though. Oh and tjemd4 of course! I am sorry if i forgot someone, i don't mean to hurt anyone but that's why how I see it.

Alliance system was okay. It was fun to interact with Soldiers even though neither of our communities are actually... active haha. It's definitely helpful when we have so many teams with not so many members. Maybe we just weren't match as we should this round which is why Soldiers/Dragoons are totally behind but it's because we couldn't predict it i guess? I think it was helpful either way.

[arivess.livejournal.com]

I think the main reason we(? well, I, anyway XD;) thought 50 points is fine is because no one really did it that often. But, yeah, I see your point. I think most of us are too honest to just-make-people-join, but you're definitely right about how exploitable that is...

[roax.livejournal.com]

No, I agree. I don't accuse anyone from here for doing something like that because I truly doubt you would. I don't mean to accuse anyone but you never know when there will be someone who would do it. Or even when someone doesn't really do it on purpose, it just wins a team 50 points and if for example teams have the same amount of points, it just puts one of the team in.. what's the word... You know, better position haha. It's not very hard for a team to earn 50 points in a game if they have enough members that participate but I just think it's too big of a difference. If it stays that way, I wouldn't mind of course but that's just what I thought.

[arivess.livejournal.com]

*nodnod* I know what you mean. It's true...