Do I Dream of Electric Sheep?
I haven't been here too long, but in the short time i have been here I've thought the invasion system on Chaos was really weird. Making a single, crazily chaotic thread that anyone can pour into sounds like absolute madness to me.
Is there a reason we don't use brackets?
For Example:
Sign up thread: Faction A has 22 members who want to fight, Faction B has 15.
Faction A gets 15 people from its 22 chosen at random (to keep numbers even and to prevent the same old people winning every round) to fight Faction A's 15.
They/ Staff/ Faction Staff start five 3 vs 3 threads, each with an objective, perhaps also chosen at random (for fun) which all get linked back into the OOC thread so staff have a hub which allows the threads to be easier to monitor, and so everything is nice and accessible from one place.
Each thread gets judged in exactly the same manner as they do already. with each thread won or lost counting as a point, side with the most points wins. Ie, Faction A won 3 of the 5 threads, therefore they win. The more threads you have going, the larger the hedge you have against loss or chances you have to win! So it becomes a little like a tournament, but with only one bracket.
It just seems it would be far more organized, and fair to the writers who are attempting to make a coherent story. And I'm pretty sure I'm not alone in thinking that Invasions because of the number of people involved are insanely fast moving and very daunting. Especially for something so important to a major factions life.
It would be a tiny bit of extra work for staff, sure, Mostly in the thread set up, but it would also be more organized, and with each thread having a single objective rather than a larger thread with multiple, the extra effort is only really in splitting them up. And with that, i think the individual judging would become a lot easier. I suppose people could go inactive in the individual threads, sure, but thats a problem on the factions end, not the sites or staffs, besides, they'd go inactive anyways in the big threads which still has mostly the same result. It just seems like it would be a lot more accessable to members, especially newer ones. But at this point I'm sure I'm beating a dead horse, and all this has likely been said before. But if not, I hope it would be considered.
Love you all
Thank you for any and all consideration.
-Gem <3