This is just a suggestion but... If we do end up going to single-class teams (no alliances), then why not just do some sort of averaging? I know some of the teams have an abundance of members, while some of the teams have... very few. This may rile up the "oh that's not fair" card, but um. If you average out points with the amount of members, wouldn't that be, in the long run, more fair? . . .I hope this makes sense in some way xD
That idea gets brought up every so often in westerosorting and I generally agree with their decision not to handle points that way. The main reason being, I feel it would pressure people to either do their share or quit the game entirely so that they don't drag down their team. I want more of a laidback system where people can be inactive pointswise as long as they're enjoying the comm in other ways.
So basically, I would rather have alliances than to do point-scaling by team size, if that makes sense.
That makes sense. Do you think it would work for, say, only a few challenges then? I know that hogwartsishome (where I got the idea from) did a random challenge for our equivalent of the Garden Festival (Hogsmeade Weekend!) and one of the challenges was averaged as such. So, if not for every challenge, then maybe a few challenges?
And to specify, the challenge that did the averaging only did the average of how many people participated in that particular challenge, not necessary the House (Team) total amount of people.
Hm... can you explain in more detail how the averaging worked for Hogsmeade Weekend? Let's say 5 Ravenclaws, 10 Slytherins, 10 Gryffindors, and 15 Hufflepuffs participated in a certain activity. The Hufflepuff scores would be scaled down the most, the Gryffindors & Slytherins would get scaled down but not as much, and the Ravenclaws would be affected the least?
It wasn't the entire weekend that got averaged, it was just one specific challenge, actually. (Because the Houses are really skewed at HiH, much alike how it is here at ff-land ahhaha.) But yeah, I'll try to do an example.
15 Hufflepuffs 10 Gryffs 10 Snakes 05 Claws
So, say the activity was standard 5points for participation, plus 1point for each extra comment, for a max total of 10pts. If everyone did the participation and the extra comments for 5 more points, then it would look like this:
(15 x 10) / 15 = 10 points Puffs (10 x 10) / 10 = 10 points Gryffs (10 x 10) / 10 = 10 points Slyths (05 x 10) / 05 = 10 points Claws
However, we both know that some people don't go that extra few steps for the full amount of points, sometimes. So our scores won't necessarily look like this. The scores might be all over the place, ranging from 5 - 10 points. I hope this is what you asked for? Sorry if it isn't, I'm not the best with explaining.
Ah thanks, I think I get it now. :) And yeah, I think that might be an interesting thing to do on occasion for certain activities. I'm in favor of having variety in terms of how points are earned in the comms because I think the fairest way of doing points is not by finding the one true fairest way of giving out points and using that everywhere, but by having lots of diversity for point systems. Will keep this in mind. :)
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So basically, I would rather have alliances than to do point-scaling by team size, if that makes sense.
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And to specify, the challenge that did the averaging only did the average of how many people participated in that particular challenge, not necessary the House (Team) total amount of people.
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15 Hufflepuffs
10 Gryffs
10 Snakes
05 Claws
So, say the activity was standard 5points for participation, plus 1point for each extra comment, for a max total of 10pts. If everyone did the participation and the extra comments for 5 more points, then it would look like this:
(15 x 10) / 15 = 10 points Puffs
(10 x 10) / 10 = 10 points Gryffs
(10 x 10) / 10 = 10 points Slyths
(05 x 10) / 05 = 10 points Claws
However, we both know that some people don't go that extra few steps for the full amount of points, sometimes. So our scores won't necessarily look like this. The scores might be all over the place, ranging from 5 - 10 points. I hope this is what you asked for? Sorry if it isn't, I'm not the best with explaining.
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