At the moment I am considering a few things.
A general outline of what I have thought up so far is as follows
- 1 point for attendance. Attendance is calculated at the end of the run, if people need to leave early they will still get points but they need to give warning first. If someone leaves without any forewarning they will not be awarded points, barring some emergency.
* I am considering giving a 1/2-1 point bonus to the organizer of a run. While this is currently almost always me I would like to teach other people how to efficiently make parties & go over things. This would take some of the pressure off of me if I do not always need to worry about parties getting made. It is a lot of effort organizing runs, which I realize many people understand, and is not an easy job by any means. Part of my reason for considering this is to encourage a better understanding of how a run works, how it is organized, and have this type of bonus be an incentive towards that understanding. I would appreciate input on this; whether people think it is fair, warranted, and whether they would be interested in learning how to do some of these organizational tasks.
* Ultima also runs a small private LS for the purpose of farming currency. Attendees to this run will also be awarded points towards DX. Running DX is a lot of work and while it serves to benefit everyone I do not want Ultima members at a disadvantage because they choose to attend an event for completing our relics.
- 100 Bills: I think I would like these placed onto the point system but am not sure how many points to assign them. I am leaning towards 2-4 points, but am open to suggestions on these.
- Main City AF2: 4 Points. This number represents 2 weeks of full attendance.
- Glacier AF2: 8 Points. This represents ~ 1 month of full attendance.
- Xarcabard AF2: 16 Points. This represents ~ 2 months of full attendance.
* While this number may seem high some of the AF2 here is the most fiercely competed over AF2 & while this system will at first favor those who attend religiously over time it is perfectly possible for those who do not attend as much to accumulate enough points for this.
- Shadow Ring / Mantle: 20 Points. I think this a reasonable cost for such a rare item. It demonstrates a lot of time put into DX.
- AF2+1: 4 Points, must have AF2. AF2+1 isn't particularly amazing & I don't think it fair to deduct a large amount of points for it.
- Belts/Capes: 8 Points. Some of these are very solid pieces and I think their rarity is comparable to Glacier AF2.
- Crafting Items: Free lot still.
- Sponsoring: Remains the same, sponsor would still get points for the run though.
- People would still be required be able to wear AF2 they wish to lot.
- I do not know if I want to still require lot comments or to allow people to spend points on whatever they want when it drops. I am leaning towards requiring a comment which lists their jobs at 70+. People could still only win 1 item per run, no matter how many points they have.
- There will be no negative points. If nobody can afford an item which drops it will go down in tiers, i.e. for Shadow Ring if nobody has 20 points to spend, it would go to 16, then 8, then 4, then 2, then 0. It will cost that new amount of points. This will also apply to items people do not wish to spend points on. For instance, if Drk AF2 head drops and nobody wants to spend 16 points the price will drop until it is free. People must still have the job high enough lvl to wear the item being reduced, however, if an item is reduced to the 4 point level, people 60+ in that job may lot, and if to the 2 point level, 50+. If an item goes down to 0 points it is free lot.
*While this may seem a bit esoteric at first I think if you read it through it actually makes sense and should be balanced.
I think that covers most, if not all, of the bases. Feel free to offer input or questions concerning any of these points. Some things I would like more input on are:
- 100 Bill lotting/point costs
- AF2+1 point costs
- Bonus Points for Organizing?
- Bonus Points for attendees to attestation runs / animated weapon runs / successful DL clears? Does the added effort to these justify a bonus of some sort?
Edit: Attestations / Fragments will not cost any points but they will only be farmed for people who have a Stage 3+ weapon for Attestations or Stage 4+ weapon for fragments. In the case of attestations if an attempt at them is already being made for someone else then other attendees may request we do additional NM's at that time for them as well, but we will not schedule a run if a few peopel are just on Stage 2 weapons.
