You didn't answer any of the questions that I'd see as bare minimum to give this more thought.
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You didn't answer any of the questions that I'd see as bare minimum to give this more thought.
Leave vote points idea and just make some sport event, people without obesity will join.
Don't we have Pokemon GO for this nowadays?
Ok, I'll try to put things in a different perspective.Quote:
Originally Posted by Obnoxious
First, 1 month is way too much I get that. In fact, if human resources are the problem, so we should simplify this as much as we can.
Also, I don't think there would be thousands of aplications. Probably a few hundreds, yes, but not thousands.
I get that the staff is short and there are a lot of work to be done. This would take commitment and effort for the love of this action itself. To make something new, and almost historical in the game.
So, my final ideia is just 1 run: 10km, and to be awarded with whatever points you think is fair.
For 1 weekend, there would be a running: "10k to Warcraft". Players could submit, in that weekend only, their 10k run , and earn x points for it. It must have the goal of 10k, that would make players actually train for a run, and we wouldn't have to lose time in entries of just 1 or 2 km.
After it, in due time, all submitions would be analyzed and then the points would be rewarded. It could take 1 week to do them all, or 1 month, but it would be done, and their physical effort would result in benefict in the game (and in their health as well).
We should decide what apps we should use. They must have a social plataform when running could be logged. Players who want to participate, must link a post to that social plataform with them saying "I'm running to the 10k-to-Warcraft", and a link to the actual run.
All your questions start with "Who". My answer is "someone' who's willing".
Of course this will need work to be done, and time. But I think what should be taken more into consideration is that this ideia and the system of points that Warmane have could make something... beautiful. At least for my point of view... I understand that some people will just think this is stupid.
Imagine that 20 years from now people will be talking about WOW and the highs and lows of this game and someone will show that 1 private server who actually made people motivated to do a running, in a game that is known to make people sedentary.
Sorry for my english, I'm portuguese.
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Not all of them, you skipped one at you:Quote:
Originally Posted by JoMiranda
I'd add to that explaining the delay to players wanting their in-game tickets to be answered to that too. It's easy to say "anyone who's willing," but should they be willing and ignore their other duties for this in the first hand? Is it alright to penalize players with much longer delays just for the sake of "a few hundreds," if you are correct about the amount?Quote:
Originally Posted by Obnoxious
You also are contradicting yourself... people in 20 years will talk about this... yet you only see maybe "a few hundreds" doing it? A few hundreds out of a game that had millions of players is hardly something to brag about - or that people would really remember in 20 years.
But since you want to be idealistic, let's make it even worse: what about players who already do other exercises that don't involve walking around? They might be in much better shape already than anyone who would walk around a couple times with an app. What about people who might be sick during the promotion? It's not very fair to them. And then we might have people who are disabled and couldn't quite go walking around that much even if they wanted.
Well, as it was said, 1km is nothing. A normal runner does around 10 km per day and getting into shape for that takes little time. So yeah, you can imagine 30 days *10 pts = 300 points in one month, compared to the ~30 you can make now.
Well, if there would be volunteers for this, that wouldn't be a problem. If you could trust 1 person to make an excel sheet with the list of the usernames who are apt for the prize, this would be way easier.Quote:
Originally Posted by Obnoxious
For example, If I made and excel sheet with the username and link to his social running profile key posts, all someone whould have to do is verify if all links are ok and legit. You could do this in a evening.
Leeroy Jenkins was done for 1 guy.Quote:
Originally Posted by Obnoxious
The short documentary IRL was done for 1 guy.
Both are marks in the WOW scene.
You think a run for Warcraft of a few hundreds across the world wouldn't be enough to have the gaming media talk about it?
I'm sorry, but now you're just arguing for the sake of it... For example, "the people who are sick durgin the promotion". So then, we shouldn't make any kind of runs or sports or promotions because there might be people that are sick and can't make it?Quote:
Originally Posted by Obnoxious
It's impossible to make everybody happy. With every ideia that is implemented - in anything in life - there is a group of people that likes it, and there is another group of people that doesn't. What makes the ideia worth to be turned true is if there are more people who would be happy with it than the people who would be upset by it (the people who are neutral will always be the biggest group).
I think you are 100% right, and that's why I re-think the ideia in these 5-6 posts.Quote:
Originally Posted by taralej
It would be just 1 run of 10km, the award in point would be whatever the admin may decide it's fair. Of course it must be something that makes it worh it to do it, but not makes it unbalanced to the people who don't want to do it, or can't.
One person in the Staff? It would take too long for a single person, and it would still be taking away from their actual necessary duties. One person outside the Staff? I already told you that's not going to happen.Quote:
Originally Posted by JoMiranda
You're trying to use meme-level stuff, on retail, that got lucky and went viral to justify a "walk for free points - which you can already get anyways - on this private server."Quote:
Originally Posted by JoMiranda
After the Pokemon Go hype? I'd be ashamed to try to push this as news to gaming media.Quote:
Originally Posted by JoMiranda
Yes, because you apparently think you can ignore all the other issues with your idea by waving a rainbow at them hard enough. This isn't about "should you not make any kind of runs or sports promotions." You go by the assumption that disabled people wouldn't be involved in one of those anyways. But you're talking about a promotion on a game, where whether people work out or not - or if they can't - is irrelevant to playing it, and wanting to create a promotion that would only be valid to those able to. You also, yet again, only addressed part of a paragraph - I see no comment about the people who already work out regularly, just don't do it by walking.Quote:
Originally Posted by JoMiranda
And you based that "more people would be happy with it than people would be upset by it" on what? Because I can tell you right now that people having ticket replies delayed more are going to be much, much more than the "a few hundreds" you see taking part in this.Quote:
Originally Posted by JoMiranda
Right. I give up.