Post by Admiral Striker General on Sept 5, 2011 12:18:57 GMT -5
So we're a bit overdue for this, but SG is gonna try to have another trivia night. \o/
As of right now, I'm thinking SATURDAY, SEPT 10 starting at 2:00pm EST (one central, noon mountain, eleven in the morning Pacific, three Tere, etc).
IF ANYONE, ESPECIALLY QUESTION-ASKERS, has a problem with this time, let me know ASAP and we can see when a better time for everyone is.
Any Staff is eligible to ask questions, though none are required. This time around, to help balance for those who ask a lot more questions than they answer, every set of five good questions will earn the asker 1 Point. 'Good' questions are those which are neither too hard nor too easy and which people have fair odds of knowing or figuring out without too much aide. Riddles and trivia, not "guess what I'm thinking" or "What is SG's favorite type of cake?" (The latter two are totally valid, of course, and can be fun on occasion, but won't earn the askers any points. (Unless, of course, SG's favorite cake (to use the example) has been stated about six billion times before on VC and should be standard site trivia by now, in which case it will be.) Hopefully this will help keep the more random questions in check this time.)
As before, correct answers will earn players 1 Point for a character of choice.
Characters will be decided before each round, and cannot be changed except between rounds or when a specific character has hit his or her current Token cap (as we won't force you to earn more points than you'd use).
Token cap this time will start at 5. Once all OR at least five of your characters, whichever number is smaller, have reached this cap, it will be upped for all characters to 10. If you can hit this on all/at least five characters, you can up the cap to 15 on two characters. The others will remain capped at 10. Choose wisely.
If you have more than five characters total, once you've started earning Tokens on a character, he or she must reach at least 5 in order to raise your cap, whever you are. In other words, if you've used six characters and finally earn five on five, you still have to get five on the sixth before you can start earning ten. If you HAVE six character but have only used five so far, you're good to go. If you hit five with five and raise it to ten, and THEN start using a sixth character, you're still good. You'll just have to get that sixth character up to five before you can raise your cap again to the limited fifteen. ('x3; Does this make sense to anyone?)
WIP characters and NPCs are optional to use. You can, but if you do, they count in your character requirements. Of course, if you're like SG and have, say, seven characters, you already need at least five. So whether you use five finished chars or three chars and two WIPs, the result is the same. (Using more than five total is discussed above.) If, however, you're like Tere, with two finished chars, your requirements to raise your cap are much lower. Bringing a WIP into the equation raises that, as now you have three rather than just two chars that must reach a certain number of points. Bring in two WIPs? Now you've got four. (x3 Of course, this is STILL lower than normal but you get the idea. xP)
Points this time are worth 1 Token or $200. While Tokens are capped, money is not. If you get 50 points on one character (you're a trivia god or we played for like 18 solid hours, but aside from that x'3), you can only get 15 Tokens top, assuming you raised your cap to that. However, your remaining 35 points will be converted into $7000. Or you could opt to convert all the points to money and get $10,000. Or split it up and take 7 tokens and $8600, or whatever.
TO KEEP FROM HOGGING THE BOX, Trivia Night this time will be held [HERE!] Please comment if you have a preference as to whether I should put up the Box on the board temporarily or just herd everyone over to the new tab. (This box is gray on-board, so it will not be confused for the normal box.)
\o/ Let me know if there are any more questions or anything I missed.
As of right now, I'm thinking SATURDAY, SEPT 10 starting at 2:00pm EST (one central, noon mountain, eleven in the morning Pacific, three Tere, etc).
IF ANYONE, ESPECIALLY QUESTION-ASKERS, has a problem with this time, let me know ASAP and we can see when a better time for everyone is.
Any Staff is eligible to ask questions, though none are required. This time around, to help balance for those who ask a lot more questions than they answer, every set of five good questions will earn the asker 1 Point. 'Good' questions are those which are neither too hard nor too easy and which people have fair odds of knowing or figuring out without too much aide. Riddles and trivia, not "guess what I'm thinking" or "What is SG's favorite type of cake?" (The latter two are totally valid, of course, and can be fun on occasion, but won't earn the askers any points. (Unless, of course, SG's favorite cake (to use the example) has been stated about six billion times before on VC and should be standard site trivia by now, in which case it will be.) Hopefully this will help keep the more random questions in check this time.)
As before, correct answers will earn players 1 Point for a character of choice.
Characters will be decided before each round, and cannot be changed except between rounds or when a specific character has hit his or her current Token cap (as we won't force you to earn more points than you'd use).
Token cap this time will start at 5. Once all OR at least five of your characters, whichever number is smaller, have reached this cap, it will be upped for all characters to 10. If you can hit this on all/at least five characters, you can up the cap to 15 on two characters. The others will remain capped at 10. Choose wisely.
If you have more than five characters total, once you've started earning Tokens on a character, he or she must reach at least 5 in order to raise your cap, whever you are. In other words, if you've used six characters and finally earn five on five, you still have to get five on the sixth before you can start earning ten. If you HAVE six character but have only used five so far, you're good to go. If you hit five with five and raise it to ten, and THEN start using a sixth character, you're still good. You'll just have to get that sixth character up to five before you can raise your cap again to the limited fifteen. ('x3; Does this make sense to anyone?)
WIP characters and NPCs are optional to use. You can, but if you do, they count in your character requirements. Of course, if you're like SG and have, say, seven characters, you already need at least five. So whether you use five finished chars or three chars and two WIPs, the result is the same. (Using more than five total is discussed above.) If, however, you're like Tere, with two finished chars, your requirements to raise your cap are much lower. Bringing a WIP into the equation raises that, as now you have three rather than just two chars that must reach a certain number of points. Bring in two WIPs? Now you've got four. (x3 Of course, this is STILL lower than normal but you get the idea. xP)
Points this time are worth 1 Token or $200. While Tokens are capped, money is not. If you get 50 points on one character (you're a trivia god or we played for like 18 solid hours, but aside from that x'3), you can only get 15 Tokens top, assuming you raised your cap to that. However, your remaining 35 points will be converted into $7000. Or you could opt to convert all the points to money and get $10,000. Or split it up and take 7 tokens and $8600, or whatever.
TO KEEP FROM HOGGING THE BOX, Trivia Night this time will be held [HERE!] Please comment if you have a preference as to whether I should put up the Box on the board temporarily or just herd everyone over to the new tab. (This box is gray on-board, so it will not be confused for the normal box.)
\o/ Let me know if there are any more questions or anything I missed.
Saying "SG rants a lot" is like saying "Longcat is long".