The Adventurer's Crown: An Althanas Quest Tournament Poll

[Sighter Tnailog]

Yeah, Cyrus, the deposit would be kept ONLY if you were taken out of the tournament due to inactivity. If you lost despite active efforts against your opponent, you would get the deposit back. It would punish only inactivity.

[Cyrus the virus]

Seems to make a lot of sense. And it's not like an EXP penalty, where it could potentially cripple you.

[Molotov]

I agree with that 50%-of-your-gold entry fee for tournaments. It makes complete sense, and also... It could really enrich the pot for the top 3 winners, too!

I think it's perfect, honestly. If the winners don't get the gold, it can always be returned to the player provided they were active and just lost from the judging.

It absolutely should be considered!

Also, thanks Fut for being much more eloquent than I.

I think that instead of giving the gold to the winners, it should go to the remaining teammates who lost out because they didn't have reliable posting buddies. For example, if Cyrus, Bob and I are on a team, Bob fails to post and loses his 2000 GP deposit, Cyrus and I should get that 2000 GP split between us as compensation. Like Cyrus pointed out earlier, the people most effected by tournament withdrawals are the competitors.

Also, I would like to remind people that no one is obligated to sign up for a tournament. Going on a vacation? Don't join! Not enough time for five posts a week? Don't join! It's that simple.

Personally, I think people who are inactive for one tournament should be punished in that they are banned for the next. That way they don't lose anything but the trust they violated.

[Sighter Tnailog]

That's not a bad idea at all, actually, but I think it should be coupled with the entry deposit. I like the idea, though, of losing the deposit to the person who was harmed by your inactivity.

Also, what about this plan for the next AC...

An adventurer's board, with a number of missions equal to the number of teams. Teams would claim the mission they wanted on a first-come, first-served basis, and have a limited amount of time to complete the mission. Does that sound like a good idea? Later rounds could involve quests that are planned by the groups and set into motion based on previous quests they undertook.

[Molotov]

I like the board idea, but I would like there to be some relatively simplistic, but overarching plot.

[Cyrus the virus]

Sounds like a very interesting idea, Maddy. Better than being stuffed into a premade quest that you might not feel totally up for, really. And I agree with people not being allowed to compete in the next tournament if they fart out with bad activity. I think a lot of people might be against it just to be safe, though, and that's a shame. For the greater good of tournaments, we really need to use a method like this to limit the amount of people who drop out. As of now, there's no reason not to drop out of a tournament if you're not feeling up to posting.

Also, for the record, the team of me, Shyam and Bob would rule. Electric Flame Tornado!

[Alberdyne_Cormyr]

I have another idea that was kinda touched upon in the original AC but nobody really took advantage of it. (That I saw)

I for one felt really frustrated that my squad had to dissolve the way it did. I hand picked two people that were closely tied in to my character's storyline and as I mentioned earlier I wanted a coherent reason why my character (And as a result theirs) were involved in the tournament. There was a small rule for the AC that at least in the beginning, if your team dissolved you could make new teams with members of the roster who still wanted to be active and make it to the end of the tournament.

I noticed there was quite a couple of people in the back-logged area of the ranking system that I would have loved to rp with at the time. I think somekind of fail-safe system to allow people to form impromptu teams on the fly should the worse come to pass and a team dissolves (As Molotov and some others were saying) and hurt the progress of more active members.

I would love to have made it to the end of that tournament. Somehow I've never been able to complete a tournament on Althanas and I was really hoping that the AC would be my first. Either my character has always died, or partners I rped with vanished off. I think a reliable fail-safe system to reward people who actually DO want to roleplay and complete the tournament make a lot of sense to me.

If a team dissolves members should be put into some kind of ranking pool and they can pick and choose amongst themselves what teams they want to form together. Even if characters have NO back history together, I think impromptu team ups could make for incredible story-telling possibilities.

As far as the money deposit goes, I'm in agreement. I would even take it a step further and suggest that the level of the character applying to the tournament be taken into consideration as well as how much money is available to them.

A level 5 character is not the same as a level 1 character. I think configuring a sweet entry fee system should take that into consideration also.

As far as splitting the entry fees goes, I'm not comfortable with this idea. I think that it should just go to the gambling pot. (In other words what some people were suggesting that kept deposits should be returned to active players) Keep it in the gambling pot, and reward players who actually choose the winners with that.