Guildyness idea - everyone please read/respond!!

[Seagull Fred]

GREETINGS!

This idea's got disturbingly little response so far (granted, the two people who responded were positive - but still...) so any response of any sort would be nunky fine at this point... READ! REPLY! NOW!!!!

Some of you may have seen my post on the Ashlings board about having a bunch of Guild Challenges – if you haven’t, don’t worry, you’re not missing much, coz here’s the revised version. Thinking hypothetically:

• Every guild forms a Challenge whenever they feel the need for some guild spirit.
  
• The challenge itself is pretty free-range, BUT it must remain within the boundaries of what already exists on the Obernewtyn.net Tally Board.
  
  - An example: The Ashlings get on the Member’s Main board and say, “MYSTICS, WE CHALLENGE YOU TO HAVE FIVE DIFFERENT MEMBERS ENTER THE CURRENT WRITING COMPETITION!”
  
  - The Mystics can either reply, “YOU’RE ON!” or “SORRY, WE DECLINE BECAUSE WE DON’T HAVE THAT MANY ACTIVE MEMBERS!” or something similar.
  
  - If the Mystics accept, BOTH the Ashlings AND Mystics guilds must have 5 people enter the writing competition. This should stop any guild creating unrealistic challenges.
  
  I’m not sure how the pointage will work, but I’m thinking that as long as each guild makes an effort to at least TRY to rise to the Challenge, they won’t be penalised. However, if the Mystics accept, then don’t do anything about it, they’ll lose, like, 5 points. Same with the Ashlings – if they make the Challenge, then don’t do anything just because they want to see the Mystics suffer, they lose 5 points. I greatly doubt this will happen, though.
  
  - If the Mystics decline, the Ashlings can modify the Challenge, or challenge a different guild, or forget it altogether.
  
  
• A guild can only accept one Challenge at a time. So if Ashlings are already participating in a Challenge with Mystics, they’re not allowed to take on a Challenge from Dreamweavers. However, Dreamweavers can pose the Challenge, and if they’re willing to wait the Ashlings can put them on standby and accept the Challenge with Dreamweavers as soon as their Challenge with the Mystics is resolved (otherwise the Dreamweavers can go to the Wanderers, if they’re desperate).
  
  
• Other possibilities include: "MYSTICS, WE CHALLENGE YOU TO:
  
  - Create three multimedia pieces entitled, “The Road to Sutrium.”
  
  - Have three people enter the current debate and quote Lemony Snicket as a reference FOR the argument.
  
  - Have three people visit our guild message board at least once a week for the next month and make them more active (this will definitely help on the Ashlings board...)
  
  - A round of the Herder-Misfit Game.
  
  - A round of Craker’d!
  
  - Earn the Moonfair Cup twice in a row! (That would be a great challenge for Mystics!!!)
  
  - Create three quizzes to measure...(I’m not sure wot...this is where my imagination ends...)
  
  
• You’ll notice I’ve used the number “three” a lot in the examples (and if you didn’t notice, you’ll notice this notice is not worth noticing...or something...). That’s basically to encourage more guild interaction, rather than just leaving it to one person entering all the time. And if only one person does end up rising to the Challenge, there’ll be no penalty anyway, because the guild has obviously made SOME effort to rise to the Challenge, and it’ll just mean that the guild doesn’t get full Challenge pointage.
  
  
• The main point to make is that this will be different to the Moonfair events because the Challenges must already have been created by ober.net. That is, no-one’s allowed to create a new game or puzzle or anything specifically for the Challenge. That way no extra work is needed, really, except to contact guild members and get them as involved in the ober.net events as possible.
  

That’s about it – let me know what you all think – most of you ought to know that I fairly well live for feedback, so the more the merrier - I reckon it’ll work well, but there might be a concept that I’ve completely overlooked – if so, I challenge you to tell me asap

Cheerio,

Lauren

[Dameon]

I was about to post a raving tirade about how the Wandies will win.

But probably I'm being a little premature. Still, I'm all for giving it a go.

Perhaps we can have long term challenges (like winning the moonfair cup twice) and short termers, to allow for challenges that the guild can't really do anything about for months.

KSL

[talisha]

I think it's a fantastic idea! Will encourage team work and active members

Have any of you guys gone over to hpforums.com ?
Its a good Harry Potter website where people talk about HP theories and such. They have everyone sorted into one of 5 houses, the normal 4 (from the books) and Glaufinclore (a kind of mix) and each week there are quotes and cryptograms (from the books) and people are awarded points for doing them correctly. There is a House Cup Winner ever 4 months i think it is.
Except atm there is a lot of competitiveness going on that isnt good. Unlike Obernnet, they report spam and flaming and stuff, so its gotten a bit nasty

haha I always manage to get side-tracked.
I think it would be a great idea.

Were we talking about having a way to show Guilds in our sig or avatar or profiles a wile ago? Is that still possible?

[Cat-Eyes]

If the guild was challenged to win the moonfair cup two years in a row, for example, would that still count as a standing challenge? Cause that'll put two guilds out of the running for two years, and that'd suck.

But other than that, YEAH!

Cat

[HeartoftheDarkness]

I love it!

I was thinking something along these lines, but your idea is waaaay better than something i could have come up with

Hmm, i think i'll pop on over tho the Ashlings board

*wanders off*

[Arien]

i think it sounds like a great idea! It'd encourage a lot more guild interaction and stuff...and the challenges would also give a load more entries for the writing comps and everything.
Wonderful idea, Lauren

[Lucy]

I love the idea!

I admit I am guilty of very little guild interaction... This will help perk everyone up I think though (plus I've tried to be more active on the site since New Year, and this will help!)

I think it's easier to interact when there's something specific too.

Great thinking people (Lauren!)

[Elspethseeker]

OMG I ABSOLUTLYLOVE IT! It is an awesome idea i am soooooooooooo for it! ;D

[brydie]

I agree, its an awesome idea - there seems to be a terrible lack of active Wandies around here hopefully this will encourage them to return to us...

[Elspethseeker]

and mystics

[brydie]

you have lots of members!

[~Dani~]

talisha said:

There is a House Cup Winner ever 4 months i think it is.
Except atm there is a lot of competitiveness going on that isnt good. Unlike Obernnet, they report spam and flaming and stuff, so its gotten a bit nasty

There are so many sites that hate obsessive posters and spam and stuff. They get really angry, its quite sad really
Thats why Obernet is such a good site!

And Lauren, that is a really good idea ;D

[Talmina]

i like the idea, it gives us a bit more of an excuse for guild plugging. though i dont want it to get too competitive and stuff, even though i cant see that happening here ;D

[Squarmi]

Lauren, have I ever told you that you are amazingly brilliant?

Squarmi

[HeartoftheDarkness]

gasp! Someone voted nay!

[Cat-Eyes]

I was going to vote swashbuckling improvement, but I figured the one little probelm I have isn't exactly swashbuckling standard...

Cat

[Elspethseeker]

I know it awful!

[Seagull Fred]

LOL, a gurt bag of chocolaty plarg to the person who voted Nay (Cat? am slightly confuzzled by the above posts ) coz I admire your independence ;D

Yeah, didn't think the 'winning the moonfair twice' idea through properly, but maybe that can be a challenge around September/October, where the challenged guild (this year the Mystics) has to win it twice in a row, and the challenger guild (eg Ashlings) has to at least beat the Mystics in the overall tally...so then it'd only be for a month, rather than two years...

I dunno, it just sounded good But yes, being out of the challenging ring for two years WOULD suck

Cat, was that yer prob? Or was there another? FEEDBACK = GOOD!!!!

Squarmi> No, you've not yet told me I'm amazingly brilliant, but feel free any time. That goes for the rest of you, too (hee hee hee hee...)

Kayt> Maybe we could modify it to limit one long term and one short term challenge per guild? Would htat snese better make?

As for the general competitiveness, I don't think it'll be an issue with this, and if it is, we'll just find a way to get around it ah, manipulating the system, gotta luvvit...

Will wait till the end of the weekend for more voters and stuff, and then think about doing something, I guess Haven't really thought this far...

Cheerio,

Lauren

[Megana]

Brilliant idea, Fred! ;D Totally love it! I haven't voted yet, cos I wanted to read all of the posts first. But yes, I am all for watching the Mystics suffer........Ahem, I mean, challageing other guilds to, uh, friendly competition.

[Elspethseeker]

you might find us so hard to beat! (thems fighten words)

[Cat-Eyes]

Yes, that was my prob Lauren!

Cat