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 Posted: Sat May 10, 2014 11:56 am
Sooo the plot on the front page is really more of an intro; has the OUTCOME been decided? I haven't found the parameters yet of that kind of contest and am wondering if I should stalk the plot committee or something. (Although if you're going to do a contest I'd suggest something along the lines of the NSTG Shipwrecked event from summer 2013, it was well organized. I'm currently speaking with the guild's leaders about reopening the associated threads for general viewing. Daypaw answered my question here which I hope you can see; for obvious reasons- assigning non-cast-members rooms?- we won't necessarily follow all their ideas or even any of them if this isn't the way you want the ball to run.)
Aaaaand I got carried away with that. Back on topic. Primarily I ask because I'm trying to get our room (and its plot) into gear and to do so I'd really like to know for sure what the main plot is so ours can fit inside it.
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Posted: Sun May 11, 2014 10:24 am
Symbolon Sooo the plot on the front page is really more of an intro; has the OUTCOME been decided? I haven't found the parameters yet of that kind of contest and am wondering if I should stalk the plot committee or something. (Although if you're going to do a contest I'd suggest something along the lines of the NSTG Shipwrecked event from summer 2013, it was well organized. I'm currently speaking with the guild's leaders about reopening the associated threads for general viewing. Daypaw answered my question here which I hope you can see; for obvious reasons- assigning non-cast-members rooms?- we won't necessarily follow all their ideas or even any of them if this isn't the way you want the ball to run.)
Aaaaand I got carried away with that. Back on topic. Primarily I ask because I'm trying to get our room (and its plot) into gear and to do so I'd really like to know for sure what the main plot is so ours can fit inside it. Well, we don't want any room to win over anyone else. So, what I think we're going to do is this: During the ball, Ophichus is going to be going from room to room and sabotaging people's parties. At the end of the ball, the Constellations catch him. He's been sabotaging them because he's sick of the way everything's run. A good leader is dependent on their ability to lead, not be their physical strength or agility or popularity or ability to entertain. He helps the Constellations come up with a new system of running things.
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Posted: Sun May 11, 2014 12:26 pm
PinkieKitty Symbolon Sooo the plot on the front page is really more of an intro; has the OUTCOME been decided? I haven't found the parameters yet of that kind of contest and am wondering if I should stalk the plot committee or something. (Although if you're going to do a contest I'd suggest something along the lines of the NSTG Shipwrecked event from summer 2013, it was well organized. I'm currently speaking with the guild's leaders about reopening the associated threads for general viewing. Daypaw answered my question here which I hope you can see; for obvious reasons- assigning non-cast-members rooms?- we won't necessarily follow all their ideas or even any of them if this isn't the way you want the ball to run.)
Aaaaand I got carried away with that. Back on topic. Primarily I ask because I'm trying to get our room (and its plot) into gear and to do so I'd really like to know for sure what the main plot is so ours can fit inside it. Well, we don't want any room to win over anyone else. So, what I think we're going to do is this: During the ball, Ophichus is going to be going from room to room and sabotaging people's parties. At the end of the ball, the Constellations catch him. He's been sabotaging them because he's sick of the way everything's run. A good leader is dependent on their ability to lead, not be their physical strength or agility or popularity or ability to entertain. He helps the Constellations come up with a new system of running things. I like this, but the question would then become how should things be run? Maybe all the Zodiacs get equal say, and they're led by whoever's time it is. For example, early April would be Aries.
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Posted: Sun May 11, 2014 1:18 pm
Violet the Maestro PinkieKitty Symbolon Sooo the plot on the front page is really more of an intro; has the OUTCOME been decided? I haven't found the parameters yet of that kind of contest and am wondering if I should stalk the plot committee or something. (Although if you're going to do a contest I'd suggest something along the lines of the NSTG Shipwrecked event from summer 2013, it was well organized. I'm currently speaking with the guild's leaders about reopening the associated threads for general viewing. Daypaw answered my question here which I hope you can see; for obvious reasons- assigning non-cast-members rooms?- we won't necessarily follow all their ideas or even any of them if this isn't the way you want the ball to run.)
Aaaaand I got carried away with that. Back on topic. Primarily I ask because I'm trying to get our room (and its plot) into gear and to do so I'd really like to know for sure what the main plot is so ours can fit inside it. Well, we don't want any room to win over anyone else. So, what I think we're going to do is this: During the ball, Ophichus is going to be going from room to room and sabotaging people's parties. At the end of the ball, the Constellations catch him. He's been sabotaging them because he's sick of the way everything's run. A good leader is dependent on their ability to lead, not be their physical strength or agility or popularity or ability to entertain. He helps the Constellations come up with a new system of running things. I like this, but the question would then become how should things be run? Maybe all the Zodiacs get equal say, and they're led by whoever's time it is. For example, early April would be Aries. Oh, yes, that's good! They rule according to their zodiac's position in the sky. When it's their month, they rule, and so no gets to rule for too long.
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Posted: Tue May 27, 2014 9:08 pm
I need a detail.
How are guests getting from the main entrance to the various rooms? The settings are quite different from each other (a ranch and a space station probably aren't that close to each other) so having them simply adjacent doesn't make sense. Perhaps magical zodiac portals are employed?
...I think I had another question but I'm not remembering at the moment.
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Posted: Tue May 27, 2014 9:34 pm
Symbolon I need a detail.
How are guests getting from the main entrance to the various rooms? The settings are quite different from each other (a ranch and a space station probably aren't that close to each other) so having them simply adjacent doesn't make sense. Perhaps magical zodiac portals are employed?
...I think I had another question but I'm not remembering at the moment. Oh, that's a good question! I like the idea of magical zodiac portals in the sky, like doorways in their star constellations. We can bring it up at the meeting tomorrow!
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Posted: Tue May 27, 2014 9:40 pm
PinkieKitty Symbolon I need a detail.
How are guests getting from the main entrance to the various rooms? The settings are quite different from each other (a ranch and a space station probably aren't that close to each other) so having them simply adjacent doesn't make sense. Perhaps magical zodiac portals are employed?
...I think I had another question but I'm not remembering at the moment. Oh, that's a good question! I like the idea of magical zodiac portals in the sky, like doorways in their star constellations. We can bring it up at the meeting tomorrow!
Also, is there a background chosen for the forum the event will be in yet? If not I have a simple idea of a pattern made up of constellations I could make.
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Posted: Tue May 27, 2014 10:50 pm
Symbolon PinkieKitty Symbolon I need a detail.
How are guests getting from the main entrance to the various rooms? The settings are quite different from each other (a ranch and a space station probably aren't that close to each other) so having them simply adjacent doesn't make sense. Perhaps magical zodiac portals are employed?
...I think I had another question but I'm not remembering at the moment. Oh, that's a good question! I like the idea of magical zodiac portals in the sky, like doorways in their star constellations. We can bring it up at the meeting tomorrow!
Also, is there a background chosen for the forum the event will be in yet? If not I have a simple idea of a pattern made up of constellations I could make.I don't have anything official that I've chosen, I'd love to see your idea, though!
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Posted: Wed May 28, 2014 7:55 am
PinkieKitty I don't have anything official that I've chosen, I'd love to see your idea, though!
ALSO I remembered my other question. Is the King & Queen of the ball contest going to happen and if so are there any specific rules we need to mention in the rules of the preliminary room contest such as how it will be judged and so forth?
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Posted: Wed May 28, 2014 9:52 am
Symbolon PinkieKitty I don't have anything official that I've chosen, I'd love to see your idea, though!
ALSO I remembered my other question. Is the King & Queen of the ball contest going to happen and if so are there any specific rules we need to mention in the rules of the preliminary room contest such as how it will be judged and so forth?Just gonna butt my nose in blaugh Main rules are the same as the others (no soliciting votes through begging or bribing, participants must be active within the forum, no using mules to vote and no entering on mules, no tekteks) with the exception of entries: The way the contest has been done in the past is that the entries for King/Queen of the ball are the winners from each room, one male and one female entry. The winners are listed in a separate thread which has been stickied ahead of time by a moderator and are voted on during the last evening of the ball (Sunday.) That's why each room usually needs to have their winners announced by Saturday. On a side note: Since the thread gets unstickied once it's edited (for the entries and the poll) I don't know if you guys want people to post their votes and have someone count them manually or if you want to be prepared to keep the thread at the top by bumping it until you're ready to announce winners. This was the 10th ball's King/Queen thread. The rules were posted in the information thread.
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Posted: Wed May 28, 2014 10:47 am
Robayn Symbolon PinkieKitty I don't have anything official that I've chosen, I'd love to see your idea, though!
ALSO I remembered my other question. Is the King & Queen of the ball contest going to happen and if so are there any specific rules we need to mention in the rules of the preliminary room contest such as how it will be judged and so forth?Just gonna butt my nose in blaugh Main rules are the same as the others (no soliciting votes through begging or bribing, participants must be active within the forum, no using mules to vote and no entering on mules, no tekteks) with the exception of entries: The way the contest has been done in the past is that the entries for King/Queen of the ball are the winners from each room, one male and one female entry. The winners are listed in a separate thread which has been stickied ahead of time by a moderator and are voted on during the last evening of the ball (Sunday.) That's why each room usually needs to have their winners announced by Saturday. On a side note: Since the thread gets unstickied once it's edited (for the entries and the poll) I don't know if you guys want people to post their votes and have someone count them manually or if you want to be prepared to keep the thread at the top by bumping it until you're ready to announce winners. This was the 10th ball's King/Queen thread. The rules were posted in the information thread.
Basic Rules:
All entries must be current avatars, NOT TEKTEKS. Once your entry is equipped, please quote a host in your room of choice stating that you wish to enter your current avatar in the King/Queen contest; once you have been informed by staff that your avatar has been saved and submitted, you may change your avatar once more.
You may only enter the King/Queen contest in ONE of the ball's rooms
You may only submit one entry in the room of your choice
Each person may only enter ONE entry in the room they have chosen.
All room King/Queen entries must be submitted by Saturday evening
You may vote on room entries Sunday morning by posting here (here will link to external thread where room entries are consolidated)
You may vote on event King/Queen entries Sunday evening by posting here (here will link to already-stickied post with the second post edited to include the winners of room contests)
You may not solicit votes by begging or bribing.
You may not use a mule to vote more than once.
You may not use a mule to enter more than once.
Entrants must be active within the event forum.
I imagine that the ball judging thread will be created prior to the ball's beginning. I also presume that ONLY the ball judging thread will be stickied. Because of this, it may be best to have the first post be one that does not need to be edited, containing perhaps a relevant graphic as well as the King/Queen of the Ball Contest Rules. The second post will be marked as to-be-edited with room king/queen winners, and once the individual room winners have been determined that is the post that will be updated to provide voters with what they are voting on.
The individual room voting threads will not be created until it is time to start voting for the room. (Entries can be listed on the front page of the room thread with the contests in order to be kept track of.) Using a poll doesn't make sense because the female and male entrants should be voted on separately meaning each person will be voting twice, whereas a poll only allows for one vote.
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Posted: Wed May 28, 2014 2:29 pm
Symbolon Robayn Symbolon PinkieKitty I don't have anything official that I've chosen, I'd love to see your idea, though!
ALSO I remembered my other question. Is the King & Queen of the ball contest going to happen and if so are there any specific rules we need to mention in the rules of the preliminary room contest such as how it will be judged and so forth?Just gonna butt my nose in blaugh Main rules are the same as the others (no soliciting votes through begging or bribing, participants must be active within the forum, no using mules to vote and no entering on mules, no tekteks) with the exception of entries: The way the contest has been done in the past is that the entries for King/Queen of the ball are the winners from each room, one male and one female entry. The winners are listed in a separate thread which has been stickied ahead of time by a moderator and are voted on during the last evening of the ball (Sunday.) That's why each room usually needs to have their winners announced by Saturday. On a side note: Since the thread gets unstickied once it's edited (for the entries and the poll) I don't know if you guys want people to post their votes and have someone count them manually or if you want to be prepared to keep the thread at the top by bumping it until you're ready to announce winners. This was the 10th ball's King/Queen thread. The rules were posted in the information thread.
Basic Rules:
All entries must be current avatars, NOT TEKTEKS. Once your entry is equipped, please quote a host in your room of choice stating that you wish to enter your current avatar in the King/Queen contest; once you have been informed by staff that your avatar has been saved and submitted, you may change your avatar once more.
You may only enter the King/Queen contest in ONE of the ball's rooms
You may only submit one entry in the room of your choice
Each person may only enter ONE entry in the room they have chosen.
All room King/Queen entries must be submitted by Saturday evening
You may vote on room entries Sunday morning by posting here (here will link to external thread where room entries are consolidated)
You may vote on event King/Queen entries Sunday evening by posting here (here will link to already-stickied post with the second post edited to include the winners of room contests)
You may not solicit votes by begging or bribing.
You may not use a mule to vote more than once.
You may not use a mule to enter more than once.
Entrants must be active within the event forum.
I imagine that the ball judging thread will be created prior to the ball's beginning. I also presume that ONLY the ball judging thread will be stickied. Because of this, it may be best to have the first post be one that does not need to be edited, containing perhaps a relevant graphic as well as the King/Queen of the Ball Contest Rules. The second post will be marked as to-be-edited with room king/queen winners, and once the individual room winners have been determined that is the post that will be updated to provide voters with what they are voting on.
The individual room voting threads will not be created until it is time to start voting for the room. (Entries can be listed on the front page of the room thread with the contests in order to be kept track of.) Using a poll doesn't make sense because the female and male entrants should be voted on separately meaning each person will be voting twice, whereas a poll only allows for one vote.The only thing I can see that would be different from what we've done in the past is the voting time. Usually the main host would ask rooms to have the results of their king/queen contests for their respective rooms by Saturday so that they can start the voting as soon as possible, either late Saturday night or Sunday morning. Then the results would be announced at the end of the ball, Sunday night. Other than that your rules all look good to me, though I'm not sure if Pinkie or Violet had any idea for changing things this year. The stuff in gray is right on - I'd forgotten about entering in multiple rooms. That's definitely a NO. Also it should go without saying but it has been asked in the past; ball staff are not allowed to enter the contests. I had thought it would be a good idea to not edit the first post either but if you want a poll, which would be an easier way to count what could be 100+(++?) votes, then you'll have to edit it at some point. A second thread could be made for voting, or manual votes could be counted, whichever you decide would be easier. Since everyone will be pretty busy come the ball I'd advice keeping it simple. Again, all of this is just me butting in and Pinkie and Violet may have things to say otherwise biggrin
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Posted: Wed May 28, 2014 11:13 pm
PinkieKitty I don't have anything official that I've chosen, I'd love to see your idea, though!
 
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