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As soon as I was chosen, I knew I wanted a really original game. I texted madcow and we got planning. Writing rules from scratch was pretty difficult. Trying to find any loopholes that there may have been was a big focus of mine, and I think I did fairly well, seeing as there wasn't any exploitation during the game. As for posting time, yep, that was definitely a challenge. I really wanted to get as much participation as I could, so finding a time to post where most people were available was important. I think 5pm central ended up working pretty well, though. Looking back, I would honestly only change the activity rules. Activity kind of died a bit toward the end, and I'll attribute that to last-minute AP studying, but I would probably change it to you had to post every 3 days. As well as posting time and activity, I really wanted the game to be easy to join. I thought we did pretty well with the waiting room.BennyTheJett wrote: ↑May 11th, 2020, 8:46 am Yeah, this game had a really weird format in comparison to other games. We'll see what the next one brings. I thought this format was definitely harder for some the the relatively newer-ish people, as there was an element of working together that was difficult when spanning time zones, but that's ok!
honestly, the format made sure everyone got to play and that everyone participated. Even though you had AP's, you guys did great, thank you so much!!! I would be looking forward to the clue, lol.CPScienceDude wrote: ↑May 11th, 2020, 8:57 amAs soon as I was chosen, I knew I wanted a really original game. I texted madcow and we got planning. Writing rules from scratch was pretty difficult. Trying to find any loopholes that there may have been was a big focus of mine, and I think I did fairly well, seeing as there wasn't any exploitation during the game. As for posting time, yep, that was definitely a challenge. I really wanted to get as much participation as I could, so finding a time to post where most people were available was important. I think 5pm central ended up working pretty well, though. Looking back, I would honestly only change the activity rules. Activity kind of died a bit toward the end, and I'll attribute that to last-minute AP studying, but I would probably change it to you had to post every 3 days. As well as posting time and activity, I really wanted the game to be easy to join. I thought we did pretty well with the waiting room.BennyTheJett wrote: ↑May 11th, 2020, 8:46 am Yeah, this game had a really weird format in comparison to other games. We'll see what the next one brings. I thought this format was definitely harder for some the the relatively newer-ish people, as there was an element of working together that was difficult when spanning time zones, but that's ok!
Anyway, those were some last thoughts of the game before 148 starts. Glad everyone had fun!
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