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Alright, I want to optimize the time I have and yet still be fair to current owners. :3 So, best way to do that, is to again ask you what you prefer.

While in process of catching up and working in the new growth system, there's obviously some hiccups, along with my haitus. I feel owners have been waiting FOREVER for growths that used to happen just a bit over two weeks after being requested. :< So I want to make sure to try and keep some activity in the shop, but still be fair.

So here's the breakdown.

First off, different stages take different amounts of time.

For toddler, it takes me maybe 4 hours TOPS. They're fast, easy, and get people RPing, and get new RPers into the works. Sometimes it's nice to see a new face, that and some people have been questing for a while to no avail.

For child, this is also an easy stage, simply chosing the dragon type (which can take maybe an hour) and then the drawing which may take 5-7 hours tops, depending on difficulty of the pose I chose. These are important, because it's hard to RP a toddler, and the reqs for toddler are simple, whereas child and soforth are harder.

Now, Preteen is the hardest stage thus far (i'll tell you the difference of Teens later) However it's an extremely important stage because children start developing their own personalities and actually get the dragon. But it takes awhile to draw, ink, color, ect. Often several days of on and off work depending on difficulty in poses, children's features, clothes, and how much time I can spend in one sitting.

Teen is almost the same boat as preteen, but easier to draw (preteen is some awkward mix of prehormones and so on that takes some thought) and the dragons become larger, and easier to cut out of the picture. It's also important because this is another key stage, and has ALOT of requirements people will want to start working on. Still that varies from picture to picture, so preteen and up will be lumped into one sum.


Alright, got all that? Good. (if you don't, just ask. XD)

now, onto the pre-question bit:
Because of the above reasons, Toddlers are easiest to do, children are next easiest, and I hate doing preteen and teen and it takes me awhile. And more specifically, I think getting new people involved in the thread is important, but my priority has always been first come first serve. Thus the delima.

I want to know what current owners and questers feel is important, and if I should make a one time exception to help balance out the growths, new comings, and old growths or stick to what I've been doing and slowly working on the preteens+ until they're all completed?

Please post here, no one will be judge on their responce because I can see either side. XD And if you wish to remain anonomous in your decision, PM it to me instead.

Options:
-Make a few sales while working on current backlogged growths.
-Open a request section to get people who've been waiting for a while for child stage grown while working on current backloged growths.
-Both of the above.
-ONLY work on backlogged growths and then go along as currently planned.
-Something else?

Please be honest, you do not need to submit your reasoning but you may if you want. The only thing you may not do is insult anyone.

And DO NOT concern yourself with my workload. It's on the top of my petpeeve list when someone says "This is too much work for you!" because if you think about it, it's rather offencive. I can handle myself, and my workload, I do not need you looking out for me no matter how good your intentions are. Saying this implies that you need to avoid my original to the point question and take care of me as though I were too stupid to figure these things out. Not that anyone has ever meant that when they said it, but this is how I take it, so don't say it. :3

I say that you should go with working on getting done the current growths that you have on your list. I say this less because of myself (aside from Val who is on the list Ter and Geia are no where near ready) and more because I know of a couple people that are hoping to get growth slots when they open up which would be after the current list of growths-to-be is done.

While a FS would be cool cause I am all for new blood/Rpers to Rp/Kids to have Orpheus Classes with and the like I am just thinking about the people already in Dcorp who are waiting patiently for chances at growth.

Just my random thoughts at very early in the morning. @_@ ... ^_^

yes but don't forget theres the both option, and also the option for people waiting on growth slots to get included as well. XD
not to change your current answer, but you both mentioned people waiting on growth slots in your answere, and I wanted to make sure this was understood too. <3

Also unless there's an overwhelming responce one way or the other, I will probably stick to the current. But if there were like 50 posts going "do number 1!" I would be inclined to consider it.
I just want to note that this is more of a prodding the situation, not a final decision making thing. XD

And I've had one anonomous vote for the both option. (Which I want to note here too so I can keep track of it with the other options)

Well the reason that I mentioned the people waiting on growth slots was because they are waiting for the current list to get done. Not all of them fall into the 'Child Stage' thing that was mentioned as an option of doing along with the current list though. That was why I voted for the 'work on current list' since then the growth slots opened after wouldn't be stage specific to be added to teh list... but I feel like I am babbling.

I wonder if I made any sense there. @_@

EDITS: Though now that I think on it if I were someone with a toddler that had the Dcorper for a while as a toddler I would want for them to grow to at least a child since there would be more RP stuffs involved in that stage... So.. @_@ I don't know...

Ok. I am all for growths of current Dcorp children before the appearance of new ones? *nods*

Coolness, if anything else comes to mind I will come back to elaborate. No doubt after I get some sleep and my brain works more coherently. ^_^ *giggles*

*Gets off her a** to say her two-bits.*

Mines kind of a both... sort of.

First off. I think the current growths should be finished to clear that up. As well, a round or two of slots should be done for people who have finished up and want to try andget a slot. This allows for two things.

If there's only a few people wanting growths left then any backlog is removed. For any age. As well, it permits finding out the kinks that there might be in the new system. It familiarizes the system with people so they can help explain it to any newcomers as well. In other words it cements it in rather than this beast that has been well explained, but never tested. So everyone will be more comfortable with the system.

It also allows some of the current children to grow if they're ready. Two birds with one stone sort of thing.

I'm all for new blood like everyone else, god knows I have friends who are questing that I'd love to see part of D-Corp. However, even if toddler and child art can be done quickly it would mean more growths being added to the list of people who want to grow rather quickly. You yourself mentioned that toddler reqs are meant to be fairly easy and finish up quickly. That is indeed the case. So within a month you'd likely have any new people wanting to grow right away due to the fact, as you mentioned, toddler is more limited.

The growth to child thread is a good idea. I like it, but if you do that as well as adding new kids that means some people who have been working hard to grow are going to get shoved further back due to RL constraints.

Thus my belief that a some of the current children should be grown before any new are put in. Opening one round of slots, or two if there is a large demand, would likely catch up everyone who has finished their reqs and wishes to grow. It would lower the demand on slots for growth that would occure when adding new children.

In short, as wonderful as new blood is, it would be best to concentrate on the current list, a few after that. Then an event. It could take a while, it could happen quickly, but it means that almost all backlog would certainly be removed before new children are introduced. If anything I feel the system would run smoother that way.

Just my thoughts... I hope I explained them well.

Mine's also kind of a 'both'.

I think that you should mostly work on the current growth kids, but seeing how what you've got left is all teens and preteens, I know it'd be easy to do some toddlers mixed in there to kinda give yourself a bit of a break between all of the hard ones. So, maybe, while working on the growths you could basically come up with a FS set of kids.

Now, like some people said, if you just open up customs or something for the toddlers, then you'd have all kinds of kids growing quickly because toddlers are so easy to get the growth reqs done for. So maybe instead, you could do a FS once you've got the current growths done. So a big event thingy with growth slots opening up and a FS going on as well.

Just my two cents... *hands over a two-cent Euro coin* XD Okay, so that's basically three cents, but... *smacks self and shuts up*