colonelvesica wrote:participation in this RP will be aiding me in finishing my work on the Economic Ranking Guide that I'm due to release on June 1st. Needless to say there is going to he a huge shake up!
colonelvesica wrote:activity during May in terms of forum activity will be King in helping me determine the ranks in June.
colonelvesica wrote:This RP will help me finalize the economic ranking of Particracy that will be released on June 1st. The more your RP the better you ranking will be when all is said and done.
I'm delighted to see all of the energy, enthusiasm and excitement that is going into this project, but I do have a few questions...and without wanting to put a dampener on this in any way, I feel it would be better to ask them now than later.
The period between the last rankings update and the next scheduled one is nearly 6 months (17th December 2016 to 1st June 2017). How fair is it to base the rankings update on RP conducted over just a single month period of that? What about players/nations who have done plentiful RP over the 6 month period, but who don't take part in the particular RP project you are planning to organise for May? Is there a case for giving fair weighting to RP carried out over the full 6 month period, and pro-actively soliciting feedback from the community about how to do that? How accepting will the community be of penalising players/nations in the rankings for not taking part in this one project?
And this isn't even mentioning, of course, the predictable difficulties which big RP projects can encounter. They can end up coming to standstills over OOC disputes, or even just by a key player becoming absent at an inconvenient moment. Even if the RP itself is a massive success (which I hope it will be - good luck guys!), that doesn't mean there won't be disagreements afterwards about which nations emerged as winners or losers. In the context of the RP being planned, it would not be difficult to envisage it ending in OOC disputes about the likely consequences of different sets of economic policies.
Please don't get me wrong here. I'm hugely in favour both of the RP event and the economics ranking, and I think its fantastic you're doing this...just I've got some questions/concerns about tying them in so closely together, if you see what I mean.
Could I suggest postponing making a decision on how much the RP project will affect the rankings update until after the RP project has been concluded, and after there has been a consultation with players? Not trying to hold you back or anything, and I could understand why you might not want to do this...but I do think this is at least worth thinking about.
colonelvesica wrote:The more your RP the better you ranking will be when all is said and done.
This will create an interesting situation where players/nations who RP recessions may find their rankings boosted, whereas players/nations who do not take part in the RP project and do not RP recessions may find their rankings reduced. I don't personally necessarily have a problem with that, BTW, but I do think the very basic question needs to be asked: how accepting will the community be of this? If it was me, I'd be wanting to tread cautiously and consult carefully.