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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Brown Jenkin" data-source="post: 881269" data-attributes="member: 2572">Many of the bad issues are either non-issues at GenCon Milwaukee/Indy or ones we have been used to for years.GenCon Milwaukee/Indy has always had more attendance then Europe and will likely continue. Even though the week it is being run is changing, there is no apparent reason this should matter (no holidays). Expect 25,000-30,000 people to show up again. Long lines have always been an issue at times no matter who was running the the show. I don't know in the past whether Credit Cards were taken (Maybe yes but I always paid cash). There are ATMs around if this is an issue.Due to the sheer volume of sales at GenCon Milwaukee/Indy Ticket sellers know nothing about individual events. It has always (at least for 15+ years) been the customers responsibility to know what they want to purchase. You give them an event number they give you a ticket. It is the judges responsibility to give a maximun number of people for the event. If you are running an event with multiple tables you either give a maximun for all tables combined or list each table seperately. If an event has multiple listings it is the customers responsibility to look up and know the other event numbers as backups. Rooms at GenCon Milwaukee/Indy should be about equal. Food at the Milwaukee Convention Center was expensive since it is monopoly pricing by the convension center, expect the same at Indy. As before there is a mall foodcourt close by for cheaper food.In the past at Milwaukee there were only 10 minutes between each event plus events in different buildings. Later they aded a 1 hour dinner break. This year they are putting 1/2 hour breaks between slots with no dinner. For us old timers 1/2 is an increadaly long break, plus at indy everything is under one roof. If you want exibit hall time I would recomend a 2-4 hour slot, especialy with the 50% increase in exibitors from last year. The Exibitor's hall is using 3 standard convention halls merged together this year. Even at its buisiest in the past at Milwaukee there have always been some games availible. The hardest to find will be specific RPGs, but if you are willing to compromise something will be availible. Depending on the game you will also have a good shot at getting into a game with a generic. Its a shame they are canceling GenCon Europe. As for GenCon Indy, there should be enough returning volunteers that know what to do that it can't be run much worse than the last couple of years. Many of us are already somewhat jaded after WotC took up direct responsibility for the event the last few years. Peter Adkinson's staff was at last years GenCon Milwaukee learning how to run it. Hopefully they learned something and things will run no worse than they have been (not a high standard recently)</blockquote>

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