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<blockquote data-quote="Motorskills" data-source="post: 7017892" data-attributes="member: 15921"><p>Fantastic event, much more enjoyable than last year - better use of the available space (including making even more room by booting the Pathfinder games....)</p><p>The sheer volume of noise at the 2016 event, caused by crunched seven-man tables, made it harder (less fun!) to play, and gave me a headache by the end of each day.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Conversely, the 2017 Epics ran extremely smoothly. It was a great idea to </p><p>i) run only a few (10+!) tables at a time</p><p>ii) to have two Epics</p><p></p><p>One of my Epic DMs had his significant other work as a "statistician". That was fantastic, allowed him to focus on the tactics, rather than the maths. An idea with legs, methinks....!</p><p></p><p></p><p>Fai Chen was a minor bump, <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?519152-Fai-Chen-recon&p=7017848&viewfull=1#post7017848" target="_blank">easily fixable IMO</a>.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>A bigger issue is the registration process.</p><p>I would recommend Baldman look at both OwlCon, and the much smaller Role Play Rally, for inspiration for how to improve their events.</p><p></p><p><strong><a href="http://owlcon.com/events_overview.php" target="_blank">OwlCon</a></strong> has a wonderful "what's available" system, and it can be both slot-limited and timelocked.</p><p>If Baldman adopted a similar model, they could minimize the initial tsunami, and also avoid the terrible situation of a few people getting everything, and the rest of us plebs - who pay the same, or more! - getting the scraps that are left.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Give DMs and volunteers priority. (Ideally give them priority at a <em>future</em> year's event. "If you DM / Volunteer at four slots in 2018, we will give you priority in 2019).</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I spent $210 on entry and event tickets to WF2017. </p><p><strong><a href="https://www.roleplayrally.com/schedule/" target="_blank">Role Play Rally in Austin</a></strong> has a "premium" service that helps them offset costs. It's not rich man takes all, more of a win-win approach.</p><p></p><p>So if that model was applied to W2018, I think I would have been prepared to spend $250 to get:</p><p>1 x Baldman quad-length special</p><p>2 x Epics</p><p>1 x AO event</p><p>4 regular slots of my choosing</p><p>Lower priority on the remaining four slots</p><p>(Something like that, maths TBD....)</p><p></p><p></p><p>Just to repeat - I had a great time at WF2017, I consider it money well-spent. But after my suboptimal experience at WF 2016, I wasn't confident of that going in....</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Motorskills, post: 7017892, member: 15921"] Fantastic event, much more enjoyable than last year - better use of the available space (including making even more room by booting the Pathfinder games....) The sheer volume of noise at the 2016 event, caused by crunched seven-man tables, made it harder (less fun!) to play, and gave me a headache by the end of each day. Conversely, the 2017 Epics ran extremely smoothly. It was a great idea to i) run only a few (10+!) tables at a time ii) to have two Epics One of my Epic DMs had his significant other work as a "statistician". That was fantastic, allowed him to focus on the tactics, rather than the maths. An idea with legs, methinks....! Fai Chen was a minor bump, [URL="http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?519152-Fai-Chen-recon&p=7017848&viewfull=1#post7017848"]easily fixable IMO[/URL]. A bigger issue is the registration process. I would recommend Baldman look at both OwlCon, and the much smaller Role Play Rally, for inspiration for how to improve their events. [B][URL="http://owlcon.com/events_overview.php"]OwlCon[/URL][/B] has a wonderful "what's available" system, and it can be both slot-limited and timelocked. If Baldman adopted a similar model, they could minimize the initial tsunami, and also avoid the terrible situation of a few people getting everything, and the rest of us plebs - who pay the same, or more! - getting the scraps that are left. Give DMs and volunteers priority. (Ideally give them priority at a [I]future[/I] year's event. "If you DM / Volunteer at four slots in 2018, we will give you priority in 2019). I spent $210 on entry and event tickets to WF2017. [B][URL="https://www.roleplayrally.com/schedule/"]Role Play Rally in Austin[/URL][/B] has a "premium" service that helps them offset costs. It's not rich man takes all, more of a win-win approach. So if that model was applied to W2018, I think I would have been prepared to spend $250 to get: 1 x Baldman quad-length special 2 x Epics 1 x AO event 4 regular slots of my choosing Lower priority on the remaining four slots (Something like that, maths TBD....) Just to repeat - I had a great time at WF2017, I consider it money well-spent. But after my suboptimal experience at WF 2016, I wasn't confident of that going in.... [/QUOTE]
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