08-03-2006, 12:31 AM
Bingo, my thoughts exactly about the Planning task, Zarbon. We don't want to give them ANYTHING to build off of. I want to see something completely original. Zarbon's idea for an Ant RPG back in the Apprentice is the kind of originality we'd want them to try to pull off.
So, now for my rough sketches of the three tasks:
Task 1 - Moderating/Updating
This is a free for all round. You have no teams. Everyone will be assigned a particular board to moderate and update. There will be many overlaps, and some of you may be responsible for moderating more than one board. During this time, you will be responsible for keeping each board up to date, enforce the rules, and update anything as necessary for those boards. At any time, you may and most likely will be given different boards to moderate, to give you a taste for all the aspects of moderating the RPG.
Here's the assignments:
Contestant 1: The Asylum and The Workshop
Contestant 2: Q/S/U
Contestant 3: All Planet Boards
Contestant 4: Same as #1
Contestant 5: Same as #2
Contestant 6: Same as #3
And so on. The assignments here are just rough examples of how it could be assigned.
Also note, I would recommend utilizing Bardock's "wrench" in this first Task.
Task 2 - Planning
All contestants will still be responsible for their moderating and updating duties. In this phase, the remaining contestants will be broken down into two teams. Each is responsible for coming up with an original and fun OOC Game or a Saga. Whichever they choose. During the middle of this task, a vote will be taken from the members of each team of who is doing the best job, and then the person voted to be doing the best will be swapped to the other team. People will continue to be eliminated if they do not perform their moderating abilites up to snuff, or if they do not perform well in this task.
Task 3 - Leadership
We should have narrowed down the field a great amount by this point. Here, we bring back any eliminated contestants who wish to participate in this final task, to be the remaining contestants' "team" of staff. Here, the remaining contestants will be asked to actually execute the saga or OOC game they planned. Whoever pulls it off the best, wins. Updating/Moderating duties still apply. At the end, regardless of winning or losing team, the actual staff members will nominate 3 people they believe to have performed the best up to this point, and then they vote on who should become staff. And viola, we have our newest staff bit- er... member!
So, now for my rough sketches of the three tasks:
Task 1 - Moderating/Updating
This is a free for all round. You have no teams. Everyone will be assigned a particular board to moderate and update. There will be many overlaps, and some of you may be responsible for moderating more than one board. During this time, you will be responsible for keeping each board up to date, enforce the rules, and update anything as necessary for those boards. At any time, you may and most likely will be given different boards to moderate, to give you a taste for all the aspects of moderating the RPG.
Here's the assignments:
Contestant 1: The Asylum and The Workshop
Contestant 2: Q/S/U
Contestant 3: All Planet Boards
Contestant 4: Same as #1
Contestant 5: Same as #2
Contestant 6: Same as #3
And so on. The assignments here are just rough examples of how it could be assigned.
Also note, I would recommend utilizing Bardock's "wrench" in this first Task.
Task 2 - Planning
All contestants will still be responsible for their moderating and updating duties. In this phase, the remaining contestants will be broken down into two teams. Each is responsible for coming up with an original and fun OOC Game or a Saga. Whichever they choose. During the middle of this task, a vote will be taken from the members of each team of who is doing the best job, and then the person voted to be doing the best will be swapped to the other team. People will continue to be eliminated if they do not perform their moderating abilites up to snuff, or if they do not perform well in this task.
Task 3 - Leadership
We should have narrowed down the field a great amount by this point. Here, we bring back any eliminated contestants who wish to participate in this final task, to be the remaining contestants' "team" of staff. Here, the remaining contestants will be asked to actually execute the saga or OOC game they planned. Whoever pulls it off the best, wins. Updating/Moderating duties still apply. At the end, regardless of winning or losing team, the actual staff members will nominate 3 people they believe to have performed the best up to this point, and then they vote on who should become staff. And viola, we have our newest staff bit- er... member!

