First of all, let me say, Tako, you are an amazing person for doing this every game. I didn't realize how much work it was making the end of game poll until I actually started making it
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Okay, so I marked down some for under-/overpowered, and I just wanted to give you my thought processes;
My main reason for marking UA as overpowered and as underpowered is my dissatisfaction with how poetry and short fic is dealt with (yes I know, I'm still going on about it, and will continue to do so until we can figure out some sort of way to make it fairer). UA is way overpowered if you consider that most of the month-long fic contests get a huge amount of points in comparison. Short fic or poetry is never on a month-long contest - usually on a two-weeks basis, and that's where the big difference starts. As an example: right now, I have two lines of poetry that I wrote at the beginning of last week - I've still not written any more, because it needs to sit and stew and come into its own before I can make any more progress. Poetry takes me a LOT longer to write than, say, your average 500-1000 word fic. I know that this won't be the same for everyone, just as arting isn't the same for everyone, but I think that... poetry and short
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*nods* Mysti has also said fic contest points in general are uneven.
And augh yeah, the villanelle. Took me. SO LONG. I didn't even realize how little points it was, and then when I did, it was like, ......................................, I DID ALL THAT WORK FOR NOTHING.
But yeah, this would mainly apply to Tako and Xinn. I'll direct them over here if they don't see it.
Actually, Sai and I were talking about this before she posted these comments, and I think that's why it needs to be directed to UA (I'm sorry for causing more work, but I'm with her on this).
I actually agree with you on both points, which is precisely why it should be done in UA and not MWS - only I think I made that comment in the UA post instead of here. I know that a good haiku is really hard to write, but if you just wanted to throw something in the 5-7-5 format, it's really not that hard, and so we can't award too many points on the poetry scale, and so on. Even if I trust that nobody will abuse it (and I do), it's kind of a principle thing.
I think what we're asking for (since I'm adding my voice to Sai's) is that, basically, since we recognise that this cannot be acknowledged in MWS, it should be acknowledged in UA, in some form. I accept that my one-sentence fic, no matter how long I spend on it, is not going to be worth that much in MWS, because it's ultimately a participatory thing. In a competitive situation like UA,
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I'm not sure how the Avatar system would work (maybe I should look into that), but I think it's awfully cool. We could set it up as an actual bazaar community or something. The mods having a few shops that specialize in certain weapon, armor, and accessory types (in order to keep the threads from getting unbearably long). Community members use that to purchase items for their avatar that they would have already seen in the games: Sephiroth's sword, the Sagittarius bow, Mythril armor, ect...
I'm not sure how we'd display that, but it would be cool.
The avatar system would be chibi avatars thus far drawn by me. I was going to do it, but then didn't end up having time to work on it beyond the bases. There's a tonberry and a moogle! And you can choose which one you want. Most clothing/accessories/etc would fit on either/both, with some species-exclusive ones, like different wings and pompoms for the moogle, different knives and lanterns for the tonberry, etc. Mods (and past mods) would also get rewarded with a special accessory specific to their position that can't be gotten otherwise. Display would be... uh. Essentially I'd give them to you on transparent background pngs, and you can put them together yourself and use them on banners, icons, etc. If people are interested, I'll start drawing them again when I have time, and make a post once I actually have something for people to buy.
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My main reason for marking UA as overpowered and as underpowered is my dissatisfaction with how poetry and short fic is dealt with (yes I know, I'm still going on about it, and will continue to do so until we can figure out some sort of way to make it fairer). UA is way overpowered if you consider that most of the month-long fic contests get a huge amount of points in comparison. Short fic or poetry is never on a month-long contest - usually on a two-weeks basis, and that's where the big difference starts. As an example: right now, I have two lines of poetry that I wrote at the beginning of last week - I've still not written any more, because it needs to sit and stew and come into its own before I can make any more progress. Poetry takes me a LOT longer to write than, say, your average 500-1000 word fic. I know that this won't be the same for everyone, just as arting isn't the same for everyone, but I think that... poetry and short ( ... )
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And augh yeah, the villanelle. Took me. SO LONG. I didn't even realize how little points it was, and then when I did, it was like, ......................................, I DID ALL THAT WORK FOR NOTHING.
But yeah, this would mainly apply to Tako and Xinn. I'll direct them over here if they don't see it.
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I actually agree with you on both points, which is precisely why it should be done in UA and not MWS - only I think I made that comment in the UA post instead of here. I know that a good haiku is really hard to write, but if you just wanted to throw something in the 5-7-5 format, it's really not that hard, and so we can't award too many points on the poetry scale, and so on. Even if I trust that nobody will abuse it (and I do), it's kind of a principle thing.
I think what we're asking for (since I'm adding my voice to Sai's) is that, basically, since we recognise that this cannot be acknowledged in MWS, it should be acknowledged in UA, in some form. I accept that my one-sentence fic, no matter how long I spend on it, is not going to be worth that much in MWS, because it's ultimately a participatory thing. In a competitive situation like UA, ( ... )
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I'm not sure how we'd display that, but it would be cool.
(I can see how most of it would work, already.)
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