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 Posted: Sat Jul 31, 2004 6:07 am
 This is the place you need to go if we accept your proposel to brainstorm. You and your choosen team will work together to solve a problem within the aloted time.
You have until the start time to the finish time to discuss your solution. No answers after the ending time will be accepted. One member of the team will come forward with the final answer everyone agrees upon.
Penalties will count only for members of the team that are either 1. abscent without an excuse or 2. Not contributing, or goofing around -too- much. The penality will result in you not getting a bulb or being graylisted from brainstormings for a period of time.
off topic Notion RP is to be kept at a bare bone's minimum. Time is money so to speak ;B Don't waste it goofing about. Do not take any discussion requarding the mission into the main thread. At all.Do not post "Bump" messages, advertisements or otherwise spam in this thread. If you need to get ahold of another member of your group, PM them rather than bumping the thread until they find it. People putting unnecessary things in this thread will be warned and then added to the blacklist.Remember:
Karma and I are monitoring this thread, always. >:]This is how we UNFBreeding works a little differently this way around. Your Notions do not unf to make lil notions. It all depends on you! Yes!! You and five other people. Once your Notions have matured, you may propose to brainstorm. Since it's a group effort the cost is 2496g. Basically, 416g from each person. We ask that you at least give a decent shot and to not just plunk out any ole thing. Brainstorming- If we accept your proposel to brainstorm, we will give you a situation. it is up to you and your team to think of a plan. You are to discuss it amongst yourself OUTSIDE of the thread. Be it PMs or Aim or whatever. JUST NOT IN THE THREAD. You will then present your formulated plan to us in the thread. Take at least three days to think of your answer, you have up to a week to present it to us. Then If your group manages to come up with a good well thought up plan, then your are successful and have made six new bulbs! good for you! Be careful though, be sure to choose your teams wisely. You may end up not coming up with anything thing at all! That would be really bad. Remember this is all about teamwork. There will be times when your can't really think of anything. This will result in less bulbs ;_; Not as bad as a bad breeding but still not as good as a great breeding. THERE IS ONE NOTE!! It's not a matter of how good -you- think your plan is, its a matter of how good -we- think it is. Current Teams: Past Teams:
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Posted: Sat Jul 31, 2004 6:11 am
domokun RULES AND OUTCOMES domokun
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Since it's a group effort the cost of brainstorming is 2496g. Basically, 416g from each person involved.Quote: 1. First and foremost, this thread is not for frivolous roleplay. The Notion community RP is rather light and sparse anyway, hense most of it takes place in the main thread. This is to be used to brainstorm your given situation with your group. A little RPing is okay, just as long as it doesn't dissolve into cookie-giving and pocky-eating. 2. Do not fight or treat anyone in your group badly. You are expected to pick out people you think you can work well with when creating Brainstorming groups in the first place, we will not allow you to disband a member simply because you don't like them. If someone is being troublesome, Oni or I, at our own discretion, will decide if someone should be disqualified from a session. 3. Do not engage in overly-adult RP. Notions are genderless, this IS their equivalent of breeding, but we don't need any explicitly steamy and unnecessary posts. Playful leg-humping or snogging is fine. 4. Don't post here unless you're a member of the current brainstorming group....other owners are not permitted to simply walk in and offer their insight. 5. Only adult notions may engage in brainstorming. The intricate thought process is too much for a baby notion to bear. 6. Not every breeding will produce a bulb for each notion. You are to decide among yourselves who will get shorted if that happens...if you cannot decide amongst yourselves without fighting, Oni or I will run a randomizer and choose for you. 7. Don't be afraid to have fun with your brainstorming. Its not meant to be a gravely serious thing, nor will we fault you for putting some silliness in your solution. Just bear in mind, you'll be expected to actually think on it. 8. Everybody in your group must contribute. This is why we allow up to a week for brainstorming to take place...we realize there are some days and times that certain people can't be online. You don't all have to be online at once to brainstorm. If you need to stop in and drop off a note with your thoughts on the thread before running off to work, you can do that and let others reply later. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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As stated before, not every breeding will result in 6 bulbs. The BEST outcome could be six bulbs, but sometimes you'll end up with less. You'd have to do pretty abyssmally terrible brainstorming to end up with fewer than four, so I wouldn't worry terribly much 3nodding ALSO, bear in mind that sometimes certain combinations of notions will yeild interesting results in your breedings. 6 Bulbs -- Yay! You all worked together to find a well thought-out answer. Because of your good teamwork, six new notions were born!
5 Bulbs -- Very good! For the mostpart, you all pulled through as a team. There may have been a bit of confusion at times, but your final product came through with flying colors!
4 Bulbs -- Four new notions have been born into the world thanks to your group! It would seem that you might have some inner-group conflicts going on, however, and its advised that next time you choose your brainstorming partners a bit more carefully.
3 Bulbs -- There are definitely some issues among your ranks and your final answer to the brainstorming question was mediocre at best. You really should put a little more effort into it next time.
2 Bulbs -- Nobody pulled their weight. You left it up to one or two people to throw an answer together at the last second that didn't solve anything and pretty much wasted your breeding slot and our time.
1 Bulb -- GET OUT OF MY OFFICE! scream ------------------------------------------------------------------- Quote: A BRAINSTORMING SESSION CONTAINING:Conflicting Notions -- Conflicting Notions, though they come in pairs, count as only one member of a brainstorming session. For each Conflicting Notion involved in your session, you will automatically lower your final bulb count by 1 as their quarrelsome nature will make it hard for the other notions to concentrate. On the plus side, you stand a one-in-six chance of one of the offspring being a Conflicting Notion. Do this at your own risk. All Good Notions -- There's a lot of good energy going on here, but hardly any opposition or argument. As such, you will produce four bulbs...however, it is rumored that one of them will be quite special... ninja All Bad Notions -- A nightmare waiting to happen. At least they can all agree on one thing...being utterly malicious little monsters. As such, this will likewise produce four bulbs with a fabled special one. What is it? Find out for yourself. WE'RE not risking putting six bad notions together, are ya nuts?? eek All Muddled Notions -- Confusion abound! For those of you who like even odds, a brainstorming session of muddled notions will guarantee you six bulbs as long as you make the effort...three good, and three bad. Every time. Full Concepts -- What are they? Where do they come from? Whatever they are, they can count for up to three notions in a brainstorming session (meaning you can have one concept and three notions equal a full team...or a concept and five other notions if you like. Or even just two concepts by their lonesome. Its up to you) MORE TO COME....? (Trial and error, guys, its up to you....)
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Posted: Sat Jul 31, 2004 6:15 am
exclaim BRAINSTORMING F.A.Q. exclaim
So what do we do when we're done brainstorming?
You return to the main thread and a chosen member you guys elect will present the final answer on behalf of your group. Oni and I will then come back and review the thread to see how much teamwork and thought went into it and, based on that coupled with how good your solution was, your final breeding results will be reported back to you.
A week is sort of a long time. What if we come up with a solution we like on the first day? Do we still have to wait a week to present it?You don't HAVE to. However bear in mind that your entire group has to have worked on your solution and contributed. You can't just come into the thread with one or two other people, think about it for ten minutes, come up with your answer and say you're done. We allow up to a week so everybody will get a chance to participate, but if you've all collaberated on the first day and come up with a well thought-out plan you're comfortable presenting, you're welcome to do that as well.
Are the breeding outcomes listed the only ones possible?
Nope! You can have any combination of notions you like as long as there's six of them (unless concepts are involved) and they're all adults.
Will some combinations give me more offspring than others?
Yes. Some combinations end up being more quarrelsome than others -- for instance, a group with more good notions than bad notions. As such, they will be argumentative and will result in less bulbs.
If I own more than one adult notion, can I let both of them partake in the same brainstorming session at once?
We'd prefer you didn't as its supposed to be a team effort. If it comes down to the wire and the only way you're going to make the six-notion mark is by using two of your own, then we'll be forced to allow it.
One of our group members was a jackass and got kicked out. How will this effect our bulb total?
The ousted member's bulb will automatically be deducted from the total...assuming there will be five of you left, the best you could hope for would be five bulbs. There will be no floating extra.
We ended up with less than six bulbs for our session, how're we supposed to decide who doesn't end up with one??
Discuss it amongst yourselves. Run a randomizer, draw straws, make deals, do whatever you have to. If you end up fighting over it, Oni and I will intervene and decide FOR you.
How many times is a notion allowed to breed?
As of now, there's no limit. If this becomes a problem, we'll probably end up capping it.
One of the members of my notion's brainstorming group is one of its "offspring" from a previous session. Isn't that like incest??
No. Nothing sexual takes place in a brainstorming session. Thinking is how new notions are created and there are no genetics involved in it. As such, "parents" and "children" can partake in the same session.
My notion is really partial to another couple of notions. If we mindlinked them, would that have any effect on their performance in a brainstorming session?
While mindlinking IS sort of the notion equivalent of marriage between one or more of them, a mindlinked pair or trio wouldn't have much effect on a brainstorming session, no. Now if the whole brainstorming GROUP was mindlinked, on the other hand...
Yeah?? What happens then??
If they were all mindlinked, it would mean they all basically operated on the same brainwave. As such, it would be easier for them to agree and getting the full six bulbs would be easier.
Hey listen, something important kinda came up and I can't be there for my allocated brainstorming session with my group. What's gonna happen?
If you know ahead of time you won't be there, PM Oni or I to let us know so arrangements can be made. You won't suffer any severe penalty for not showing up, your notion will likely just be ousted from that particular brainstorming session and you will not recieve a bulb.
I'm the only one doing any real work in my group! The rest of them are goofing off or never around and I'm getting annoyed!
Bear in mind, Oni and I will be monitoring the thread while sessions are taking place. If we see something like this going on for prolonged periods, then we will most likely end up cancelling the brainstorming session all together, awarding the one or two people who did any work their bulb and the rest of the doofers will have to wait for another slot to try again.
I can't seem to ever show up when the rest of my group is in the thread. Am I going to get docked for not participating?
Not unless you never post or offer your ideas. The rest of your teammates don't need to be around for you to post your thoughts and contributions to the problem presented. Just as long as you make an appearance and offer ideas, you'll be fine. (that DOES mean posting more than once or twice)
Am I allowed to keep my bulb from the session or do I have to pass it on?That's up to you. You can keep it if you like, give it to a friend, or auction it with a cap of 15k (no items) and the agreement that 20% will revert back to the main center.
20%?? That's steep! This is MY bulb!
Its Oni's coloring and lineart, duder. The unicorn boy demands compensation! twisted
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Posted: Sat Jul 31, 2004 6:27 am
idea BRAINSTORMING GROUPS idea COLOR KEYQuote: BLUE TEXT = Good Notion RED TEXT = Bad Notion GREEN TEXT = Muddled Notion PURPLE TEXT = Conflicting Notion ORANGE TEXT = Concept ---------------------------------------------------- The current brainstormers are the only ones allowed to post in the thread. If you are not a member of the current group, please do not offer your opinions or insight...this is something they must do for themselves. Thanks 3nodding Currently BrainstormingQuote: Allocated Time: --1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. YOUR BRAINSTORMING MISSION:None Yet Quote: Allocated Time: 05/13/04 - 05/17/041. Pennanink -- OniAja 2. Gottschalk -- karma_k 3. Mischief -- Draike 4. Ereki & Tsume -- Sao Kasai 5. Kiet -- Prolixity 6. Anaximander -- Starluck OUTCOME: After the Conflicting Notion penalty, 5 bulbs were created. Well done!
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