Hey guys! Thanks so much for the feedback! We're going to put a response to all of this right now, but you're welcome to still leave other input if you have any! Let's divide this into two sections:
Groups We dropped the ball with this! For some reason, we forgot about the RNG option which we included in previous events; it must have slipped our minds this time to include it. We'll make sure we do this in the future to help with plotting and to help people who are shy about approaching others for groups. Additionally, what we're thinking we might do is allow a bit more time for discussion before we get into the meat of the event, and space things out a little more. To address issues of thread order, in general, we have a policy that we will respond every 24 hours regardless of whether or not everyone has had a chance to reply in order to keep threads going.
Pokemon Bonding The issue at hand actually wasn't whether or not it's too much work for the mods, but whether the Helpers are a sustainable system. The mods run the unrevealed Pokemon and the Helpers run any other threads that people may want. After consultation with our Helpers, we feel like we have a better idea of how to make things more manageable. At this time, we're probably going to propose a queue. In other words, the Helpers will take threads whenever they are able to as opposed to jumping on them immediately. If the player is not willing to wait in the queue, they can simply ask for the blurb as proposed here, which we can provide.
For unrevealed Pokemon, we may also need to use a queue when new areas are revealed as that's when we have to run the most threads.
Feel free to still respond to this comment with any thoughts as this isn't an official policy change yet!
Response!
Groups
We dropped the ball with this! For some reason, we forgot about the RNG option which we included in previous events; it must have slipped our minds this time to include it. We'll make sure we do this in the future to help with plotting and to help people who are shy about approaching others for groups. Additionally, what we're thinking we might do is allow a bit more time for discussion before we get into the meat of the event, and space things out a little more. To address issues of thread order, in general, we have a policy that we will respond every 24 hours regardless of whether or not everyone has had a chance to reply in order to keep threads going.
Pokemon Bonding
The issue at hand actually wasn't whether or not it's too much work for the mods, but whether the Helpers are a sustainable system. The mods run the unrevealed Pokemon and the Helpers run any other threads that people may want. After consultation with our Helpers, we feel like we have a better idea of how to make things more manageable. At this time, we're probably going to propose a queue. In other words, the Helpers will take threads whenever they are able to as opposed to jumping on them immediately. If the player is not willing to wait in the queue, they can simply ask for the blurb as proposed here, which we can provide.
For unrevealed Pokemon, we may also need to use a queue when new areas are revealed as that's when we have to run the most threads.
Feel free to still respond to this comment with any thoughts as this isn't an official policy change yet!