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brightknightie) wrote2020-01-05 04:46 pm
brightknightie) wrote2020-01-05 04:46 pm
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How would you like to play FKFicFest in 2020?
Now that my personal 2019 fanfic year-in-review is posted :-D let's talk about our 2020 ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
fkficfest.
Before I post a more formal poll on the community, hopefully later this week, how are you feeling about it?
How to play?
Should we revert to exchange-match style, elect a shared challenge prompt for all of us, or try something else?
There is a participation threshold for some gameplay styles. And we had only 6 players in 2019, 8 in 2018, 10 in 2017, 9 in 2016... At this end of history, we're a small player-base. Yet we remain extremely -- even excruciatingly -- diverse in our preferences.
Direct exchange matching has become problematic. If most people who play prefer an exchange to a challenge, we need to agree to be more open and less specific in our requests (perhaps more like the HL exchange sign-ups, or with an understanding more like Yuletide) or we need to switch to some form of ranked-choice claiming (post requests publicly, submit privately a list of the order in which you'd like them, and I do my best to get everyone as high a choice as possible).
Last year, many of the people who voted for challenge-style play ended up not playing at all, while many of those who did play in our challenge-style game had voted for exchange-style play.
When to play?
My summer and fall are currently booked solid with overwork. So spring looks good for me. How about you?
How early could we have the stories due? Easter and Passover are in early April this year; how about coming due the following weekend, 18 April? If we work speedily, we could have the common prompt elected and announced, or the matches made and sent, on 17 February (Presidents Day (US), Family Day (CAN)).
Early May brings the anniversaries of both FK's premiere and finale. Those are weighty symbols and achors.
And of course there's always the possibility that we should skip a year instead of playing this year! Perhaps more people would play, if it were more rare?
What else?
What else should we do, consider, talk over to make the game happy and strong...?
♥
fkficfest.Before I post a more formal poll on the community, hopefully later this week, how are you feeling about it?
How to play?
Should we revert to exchange-match style, elect a shared challenge prompt for all of us, or try something else?
There is a participation threshold for some gameplay styles. And we had only 6 players in 2019, 8 in 2018, 10 in 2017, 9 in 2016... At this end of history, we're a small player-base. Yet we remain extremely -- even excruciatingly -- diverse in our preferences.
Direct exchange matching has become problematic. If most people who play prefer an exchange to a challenge, we need to agree to be more open and less specific in our requests (perhaps more like the HL exchange sign-ups, or with an understanding more like Yuletide) or we need to switch to some form of ranked-choice claiming (post requests publicly, submit privately a list of the order in which you'd like them, and I do my best to get everyone as high a choice as possible).
Last year, many of the people who voted for challenge-style play ended up not playing at all, while many of those who did play in our challenge-style game had voted for exchange-style play.
When to play?
My summer and fall are currently booked solid with overwork. So spring looks good for me. How about you?
How early could we have the stories due? Easter and Passover are in early April this year; how about coming due the following weekend, 18 April? If we work speedily, we could have the common prompt elected and announced, or the matches made and sent, on 17 February (Presidents Day (US), Family Day (CAN)).
Early May brings the anniversaries of both FK's premiere and finale. Those are weighty symbols and achors.
And of course there's always the possibility that we should skip a year instead of playing this year! Perhaps more people would play, if it were more rare?
What else?
What else should we do, consider, talk over to make the game happy and strong...?
♥