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Difficulties:
• Ensuring that competitors are truely my new to the game,
\- with past competitions, there, has been a cutoff date
\- using people from real life can work, but then it removes a lot of the in-game benefits benefits (new playerbase recruiting areas, et.cetera.)
\- even if it had official ways of checking, it'd still not be certain.
• Timezone/playtime differences can cause great difficulties, even when specifically choosing to match.
• Finding teams, both trainers and trainees, who can fit together (for all sorts of reasons) can be hard.
• Ensuring an even playing field at the start.
• It has a small immediate impact, and most of the effects are subject to many possible hurdles, over a long maturation time.
• There would be little interest without an 'angle' to make it relatable/appealing.
• Getting a balance for incentive vs risk of cheating.
Workarounds:
• Having the teams do streams, and (blog*?) updates on progress, could help give a wider audience for the competition, to make it more interesting/followable/relatable.
\- both sides of the teams may be of interest, though the perspective of the trainees will likely be the most engaging.
\- this would give a clearer idea of what is involved in competing in some of these activities, at the 'higher levels', and help make it more interesting.
\- making sure that any materials for learning are made clear, should mean that any who are inspired by the competition can easily try taking up the activities for themselves.
• A possible way of spinning it, would be to invite (or even challenge) prominent players, who are either famous for being good at RuneScape, or good at explaining content (or both), to try their hands at some of the 'lesser' parts of content, to see whether they can master them, too (after all, if you're supposed to be good at RuneScape as a whole, then finding out you're a relative novice at whole sections, must be something needing rectifying!
).
• Ensuring that competitors are truely my new to the game,
\- with past competitions, there, has been a cutoff date
\- using people from real life can work, but then it removes a lot of the in-game benefits benefits (new playerbase recruiting areas, et.cetera.)
\- even if it had official ways of checking, it'd still not be certain.
• Timezone/playtime differences can cause great difficulties, even when specifically choosing to match.
• Finding teams, both trainers and trainees, who can fit together (for all sorts of reasons) can be hard.
• Ensuring an even playing field at the start.
• It has a small immediate impact, and most of the effects are subject to many possible hurdles, over a long maturation time.
• There would be little interest without an 'angle' to make it relatable/appealing.
• Getting a balance for incentive vs risk of cheating.
Workarounds:
• Having the teams do streams, and (blog*?) updates on progress, could help give a wider audience for the competition, to make it more interesting/followable/relatable.
\- both sides of the teams may be of interest, though the perspective of the trainees will likely be the most engaging.
\- this would give a clearer idea of what is involved in competing in some of these activities, at the 'higher levels', and help make it more interesting.
\- making sure that any materials for learning are made clear, should mean that any who are inspired by the competition can easily try taking up the activities for themselves.
• A possible way of spinning it, would be to invite (or even challenge) prominent players, who are either famous for being good at RuneScape, or good at explaining content (or both), to try their hands at some of the 'lesser' parts of content, to see whether they can master them, too (after all, if you're supposed to be good at RuneScape as a whole, then finding out you're a relative novice at whole sections, must be something needing rectifying!
).
18-Jan-2015 13:51:20 - Last edited on 22-Jan-2015 09:41:09 by Yusou Bhoroi
The format, as a whole - taking a person new to something through the process of learning, and letting people see their experiences and feelijigs throughout the process (especially when the person is famous/relatable, no matter how they've come to be so), has proved ever more popular in recent Years (numerous popular television programmes, in many countries, along with consumer review bloggers, even educational programmes and scientific experiments and the like - though I'm probably a bit odd with following stranded whale carcass autopsies, protein modeling, and cosmic clasification blogging
).
This, along with the popularization of streaming and challenges, makes it likely that such a format would prove of interest, if handled correctly - something which the CM team are more than capable of doing, with their expertise (providing they have the time, ofc).
The fact that it is the Mods who are competing, in essence, allows them to be in control of the situation, to an extent, and prevents some of the tensions that may be caused by direct competition - any possible ructions caused in other forms of tournament, would be player to player matters, and likely without the presence of Moderators; and, while that's not something unusual in a game, it's better to avoid it, if possible, than not.
This allows those who love the activities the most, and have the wish to share the fun aspects of competitive play, to highlight their content - both to Mods, and to the general playerbase, in the most positive way. It gives the opportunity to explain how the content works, and increase the awareness of this to people who would otherwise not have had the incentive to find out.
The degree in which competitive play is an important part of an activity, can easily dictate the tone of the competition done for each individual activity.
).
This, along with the popularization of streaming and challenges, makes it likely that such a format would prove of interest, if handled correctly - something which the CM team are more than capable of doing, with their expertise (providing they have the time, ofc).
The fact that it is the Mods who are competing, in essence, allows them to be in control of the situation, to an extent, and prevents some of the tensions that may be caused by direct competition - any possible ructions caused in other forms of tournament, would be player to player matters, and likely without the presence of Moderators; and, while that's not something unusual in a game, it's better to avoid it, if possible, than not.
This allows those who love the activities the most, and have the wish to share the fun aspects of competitive play, to highlight their content - both to Mods, and to the general playerbase, in the most positive way. It gives the opportunity to explain how the content works, and increase the awareness of this to people who would otherwise not have had the incentive to find out.
The degree in which competitive play is an important part of an activity, can easily dictate the tone of the competition done for each individual activity.
21-Jan-2015 18:24:23 - Last edited on 22-Jan-2015 09:55:41 by Yusou Bhoroi
List of Activities this could be adapted for:
(As the specifics become more developed, I'll start using this as a contents, to link to separate posts - at the moment, it's merely a list of activities it would easily work for, or be adapted for ((it's limited to basic feasibility, and usefulness to the activities of such a venture, till there's any reason to hope it might be something acceptable)).
Conquest
GOP
Trouble Brewing
[qfc id=]Barbarian Assault[/qfc]
Stars &Trees
Stealing Creation
Heist
Soul Wars?
This could even be adapted for things like bosses.. but that's already popular, covered elsewhere, and something people have enough pressure to try out as it is.
(As the specifics become more developed, I'll start using this as a contents, to link to separate posts - at the moment, it's merely a list of activities it would easily work for, or be adapted for ((it's limited to basic feasibility, and usefulness to the activities of such a venture, till there's any reason to hope it might be something acceptable)).
Conquest
GOP
Trouble Brewing
[qfc id=]Barbarian Assault[/qfc]
Stars &Trees
Stealing Creation
Heist
Soul Wars?
This could even be adapted for things like bosses.. but that's already popular, covered elsewhere, and something people have enough pressure to try out as it is.
26-Jan-2015 16:49:41 - Last edited on 30-Jan-2015 09:52:12 by Yusou Bhoroi
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