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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mark" data-source="post: 3883276" data-attributes="member: 5">Were many people late in coming back from lunch?  (It did not seem so, but encouraging everyone to hustle back can always help.)  Probably an hour is plenty of time to eat and hopefully the store, which is kind enough to give up the space to us for free, did well at the register.  There is the concern that if the break is shorter, people shop less at the store and spend the full break time on going to eat.  We do not want to become a gameday that gets the free room but costs the store money.It was surprising how early so many of the games broke up.  Were most of the games that were scheduled the type that take only a couple of hours?  Maybe slots can be split into Slot1a and Slot1b and Slot2a and Slot2b type offerings if the GMs and players want to try two short games in a row?  Our first game wound down on time and the second could have gone an extra hour, though it worked out well enough.  Maybe 9:30 am to 2:30 pm then 3:30 pm to 6:30 pm and 6:30 pm to 9:30 pm, where most second slot games are actually from 3:30 pm to 9:30 pm but some can be split?Primarily, though, we all probably agree we need to begin setting up the games later than we do.  It is less likely a game will have to be cancelled or that players will need to drop, or that tables will have trouble filling up, if we have less time between when the games are planned, when the sign ups for seats begins, and when the gameday actually is. Sure there will always be last minute changes/cancelations but the longer between sign up and date, the more that can change.  If we do not start the planning for the early 08 gameday until six weeks prior to the date, and we look primarily to the store schedule and the con schedules to determine when it is, we will likely do well filling things up as much as we can.  We lost at least some people to WindyCon this time around.  If we start the planning thread later, we will probably be more in tune with potential conflicts store-wise, con-wise, and personally, and be able to avoid them more readily.Further, it might be best to keep it to five or six games per slot at the start and only expand if things fill up.  There is nothing wrong with a smaller game (with only a couple/few players), of course, but it might not be fair to the store to block out the whole backroom if we really only need a portion of it.  There is a feeling that the store could have put two or three tables to use most of the day that we were not using.  The hightop table can be used for a smaller game, or a minis table can be used for a couple of small games, freeing up full-sized RPG game tables for the store to keep open for non-gamedayers.  We should keep an eye on usage and shift games and tables around in the last week if our numbers warrant that sort of space reallocation.  That would give the store the opportunity to satisfy an addtional number of its customers besides ourselves.Lastly, we will probably see a continued lull for the next gameday and, if we make sure to schedule enough 4E slots, will likely be packed in June when the new edition is released.  And when the new edition is released and third party publishers retool, we will probably see a larger number of companies wanting to do prize giveaways again. We might want to switch back to the schedule that includes some prize time when that happens.</blockquote>

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