City Point Value Discussion

[yelsaewnor]

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That said, changing city run point value is something I would like to investigate. Some people get very discouraged when they have to miss a city run for RL reasons & come back so far behind in points. The people who've talked to me about it are some of our more dependable members too. Food for thought.
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<!-- END TEMPLATE: bbcode_quote -->I think that changing the the weighting of city runs from 3 points to 2 points would help to keep things more balanced for us. They will still be worth more, thus encouraging people not to deliberately skip them but they will not be worth so much that they drive the attendance percentage.

Thoughts?

 

[Heie]

Should run a few different sheets to see how everyone's % is. Another option would be 2.5 for City if 2 is too low.

 

[Eticket]

It doesn't look like much of a difference one way or the other. If we change it to 75%+ then the top tier would be the same through any of those changes.

 

[yelsaewnor]

Another way to look at it is

3 point cities: 75% of points in a system perfectly balanced

2.5 point cities: 71% of points in a system perfectly balanced

2 point cities: 67% of points in a system perfectly balanced

1.5 point cities: 60% of points in a system perfectly balanced

1 point cities: 50% of points in a system perfectly balanced

A perfectly balanced system assumes that at any time half the runs are "city" which means Sandy Windy Jeuno currently and half the runs are other than those 3.

We rarely have a perfectly balanced system because of the challeges of setting up an actual schedule but this is a shorter method of comparing than the above Wall-O-Text.

EDIT: Deleting the above gigantic post, because I think that this is an easier basis for comparision.

 

[yelsaewnor]

Added a poll.

This is a method of seeing where everyone stands on this issue. If there is strong support for a change it MAY be put in to place.

 

[Nekio]

I personally think cities are over-weighted.

 

[Shadowedge]

I agree with Nekio. Honestly, there's already an incentive to show up to city runs if people don't need it, and that's the option to lot money. With a near-guarantee to earn 400+ currency, and maybe more, depending on how lucky we are with 100's, it can be a fairly profitable event. I don't think keeping the point value high would attract anymore members.

But at the end of the day, I don't think a change is necessary. However, if some sort of change must be made at all costs, I'd lean toward dropping the value down to 2 points.

 

[yelsaewnor]

But at the end of the day, I don't think a change is necessary. However, some sort of change must be made at all costs, I'd lean toward dropping the value down to 2 points.

I'm not looking to make unneeded change. Just looking to see what changes people think are needed.