Do you want Awards ?

[Lane]

Kapitain,

Fish is just joking with us older player's
You mean Fish is older then us guys
That makes me feel young
Right Subsailor
Lane

[Kapitan]

i got that part i waas meaning i dont get the award bit

[Bellman]

Fish:

I am to old to play with you kids.

Fish is referring to the "Over Fifties'' bit I think.
A level I set tactfully :rotfl: so as to muddy the waters a bit.

Lane:

How many do we have over 50? Grin Grin

Maybes someone will poll it ?

[Bellman]

Sorry Mein Kapitain - which bit of it dont you understand ?
PM me and we can take it from there. OK ?

[Kapitan]

ok well dont worry oh and that poll i set it up for ya

[Bellman]

We seem to have wandered off into the area of 'Old Comrades Reunions' But thanks Kap et al.

This Poll has run a week - so I guess we can give it another.- it would be nice to see at least 30 pollers.

[Kapitan]

20 in any poll i recon is enough

when i said i set it up some where else i ment the over 50 poll

[Fish]

Originally Posted by Lane

Kapitain,

Fish is just joking with us older player's
You mean Fish is older then us guys
That makes me feel young
Right Subsailor
Lane

Sorry Lane, your older then me.
Hé, I am junior.

[Bellman]

Well I'm going to 'cheat' and poll as just out of diapers in Kaps Poll in General, I mean really :-
''Stonehenger''

[MaHuJa]

I think getting overly competetive mission designing etc will only hurt the community as a whole.

Best modder?
Unless it becomes the rather pointless "lwami award"... (At least until it possibly changes to "dwx award")
...yeah, right. I don't want 10+ mods hanging around if I can help it. In such a competing environment, there might be considerable accusations of copying etc, and multiplayer will suffer - we don't want that. And that is what such an award will encourage, if not accomplish.

Best mission designer?
Here you run into a few problems. Least of which is that it may be discouraging for someone who just can't seem to reach the top, you may end up with mission makers trying to outdo each other, with the missions that will entail. The complexity will go up to climb the impresscale, but overall quality may not follow.

Best mission?
Might be on to something here, but this would probably require several sub-categories, based on realism, balance(mp), short/medium/long/verylong duration etc etc.



On the other hand, a 'medal' system as outlined by LW, will probably do a bit better.

[Bellman]

At this moment, if we proceed the 'recognition of service' type Award is historical. Next time (if there is one) yes I
agree we should be concerned about the incentive effects which indeed could be negative, if we are'nt carefull.
But I dont see it as 'overly competitive' and striving for some excellence cannot 'hurt the community' IMO.
The point is we are saying "Thank you very much'' to an individual for his/her contribution above and beyond the norm.
That of itself does not devalue everybody elses input.

LW and your suggestion of a 'medal' type system has much merit. Particularly, I think if we invite nominations
and then poll for a short list, before the final 'medal' poll. Top voted 'medal' poll gets 'Gold' and so on ?

I like the 'Best Mission' category. Also we dont have to be too intense in all our choices, there is room
for a little light relief. For example maybe we could also have 'Best Signature ' (Or funniest )
No reason why we should'nt award ' Most helpfull poster,' 'Most humorous poster' etc. Heck we can work it so that
everyone gets an Award if thats what you want.

[Fish]

I partly agree with Mahuja, but, while for me working in the shadows suffice, competition works too, see sportsman, scientists etcetera.
So a bit from both works best I think.

[Bellman]

Yep - good point.

The thing is that if someone feels that they 'dont work for Awards' or if they have any other objection, they are
quite free to 'Opt-out' if they are nominated at stage one.

We dont want to 'mark' them out if they dont want it.

[Bellman]

That looks like a 'yes' to me.

The first Award will be for mission designers who have produced your favourite single play scenarios
in DW, SC, SCX and SCU whether those are within a campaign or not.

So I propose starting by inviting nominations for Ace Scripter SP. There will be Gold, Silver and Bronze categorise.

We shall short list the top 5 by nomination numbers and then have a poll for 'Gold' etc.

We can then move on to MP.

I will open a new thread.