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[Pandarsenic]

I created a Man of SCIENCE game springing off of the LCS character creation and recruitment format. You can probably find it and claim fraud, but this one was supposed to run alongside Pandar's new one, for the cameos.

Link that shit.

[Lillipad]

http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=78370.0

[Pandarsenic]

So any advice on how to go about rebooting/restarting such a game? Other than updates, what worked well and what didn't? How much of that beginning-phase stuff do you really want to go through again? Should I reduce the sheer degree of the timescale, uh, scaling as far as how many things you do and how much time passes? Would a system where you queue up hours from your day work better, perhaps?

[Aklyon]

The confusing voting system is probably what brought it down the most. Removing the downvoting or something like that would likely help quite a bit.

[Ochita]

DESTROY DEMOCRACY BRAIN, HAVE POLLS.

[FuzzyZergling]

Yeah, the poll system that the forum uses would be better than what we were using, in my opinion.

[Pandarsenic]

Polls are very restrictive, though....

[Ochita]

No they're not.
Demo brain is restrictive with time because everybody bitches.

[Aklyon]

Polls are very restrictive, though....

People vote for the stuff they want do do next, and we don't get bogged down trying to figure out what is actually next.

[blackmagechill]

Remove down voting. If there are three votes for it or how ever many over a twenty hour period, I go ahead and do it. Works for me and WIZARD!.

[Pandarsenic]

Mm, that might work.

[RAM]

You can't add stuff to a forum poll, so you would need all of the options to be known prior to putting it up...

[Aklyon]

You can't add stuff to a forum poll, so you would need all of the options to be known prior to putting it up...

yes you can. I've been able to change the number of options in the poll in WIZARD several times.

[Lillipad]

Use polls for voting on the starting parameters and important progression points, then use the simplified pseudo-democrabrain for all nonessential items that are between those points. I like the current setting you have, so I'm biased in saying use it again, but change the surrounding characters. Try to work on making time move faster so that we don't go through several dozen updates without even 48 hours passing.
I noticed a lot of people being unreasonable with their suggestions, or just outright suggesting things that can't be done at the time. Don't bother monitoring that, just try to keep the people suggesting things from getting ahead of themselves quite as much as they were, since it's only been that severe in this game.
Also, while I wouldn't call it a con, I'd like to see max skill levels raised so that it's easier to tell how good SCIENTIST actually is in that given area, rather than having to guesstimate it. I use 100 with skill evolutions, Aklyon uses 20 with game breaking stuff, and I'm not sure about anyone else. I'd say 30 with half levels would work for you, though you'd have to either increase or decrease the rate at which levels are gained. I can't remember how fast SCIENTIST grew at the moment.

Pros:
setting
writing
variety in choices

cons:
voting
time progression
people being stupid(unsolvable)

[Aklyon]

simplified meaning no downvotes, as said before.