Ticket Contest response

[Spiderfly]

Character you feel you developed the best and why:
I'd say Dafina. I guess being put into stressful situations is a really good way to FORCE the true self of your character out. I had no idea she resented not being traded, and the motivation for her personality before now! :3

What bit of the plot was your favorite and why?:
Honestly. . . >.> I was so busy (still have one exam left today) that I didn't read through any of the threads I wasn't in, and I was only in two. I intend next week to read through some/most and figure out what exactly the plot WAS lol

Least favorite?:
Can't comment <3 But I'm sure it's all amazing.

What did you feel could use some work on my part? (Please elaborate):
I think you need to get more sleep and not treat us so well XD

What do you think was done well, so that it can be replicated in the future?:
Everything. No lie. I can't wait to read through everything and get a good picture of the overall plot. I have to say, from the few NPCs I interacted with they added a lot of spice and interest into the situations around our characters.

Less NPCs or a good amount? Did they help or hinder your character growth?:
Good? Definitely helped! Argo was awesome. And I never thought I'd see a day where Amorette would raise her voice, but Farrago really pissed her off lol. It was neat to see how my characters reacted to the NPCs as they were unlike most other characters they'd encounter on the board normally.

NPCs that needed work or were just a pain (eg, added nothing):
~none~

What do you think could be done to improve the contest?:
Hummmm. For me personally, I'd just have to set aside the time to actually read through the other threads. I was very sheltered in my one rabbit thread, and then only popping in halfway through didn't help either. I don't know what you could do to improve it though

If this is going to happen again I will have to raise the prices (by a few dollars each) due to this consuming a solid chunk of my life and countless hours for very little return. Would anyone still play or would this count you out?:
I would definitely still play! Especially as I should have a real job in the next few months and it'd become even more affordable for me. I honestly think you deserve more than you probably got for doing such an amazing job and devoting so much time to the board. Especially in the case of the burdened where not only were plots woven in, but we received a new character. <3

Which NPC was your favorite and why? (I have to):
ARGO. Argo, Argo, Argo. I didn't read through the other threads yet, but I just loved him and his crazy.


Other comments:
Thanks Nat! <3

[carcinoGeneticist]

Character you feel you developed the best and why: Jordan all the way. I'd always had a somewhat vague picture in my mind of the sort of person she was, and I knew her backstory, but I feel like through the contest she really got a chance to thrive and show off her personality in a wonderful way. I think that now that the contest is over, she'll really get a good chance to deal with issues. <3 As a second, I would say Eryn. I have so much better a grasp on her now than I did before. Sadly, as a third, Mirai. T_T

What bit of the plot was your favorite and why?: I LOVED the Lowland plot. I just found the characters all to be very cunning, and the thread had such a heartbreaking and wonderful end. T_T

Least favorite?: Loved 'em all.

What did you feel could use some work on my part? (Please elaborate): The only thing I can think of would be to possibly have people mention if (for mutation/burdened tickets) they actually want to play the character on the ticket? That way, they don't have to figure out a muse that just doesn't wanna work for them and such. :3

What do you think was done well, so that it can be replicated in the future?: LOVED THE NPCs.

Less NPCs or a good amount? Did they help or hinder your character growth?: As above, I loved all the NPCs. <3 They were wonderfully catalytic to character growth and to just general fun.

NPCs that needed work or were just a pain (eg, added nothing): None. :3 I mean, some of them were dickweeds, but they needed to be for the story!

What do you think could be done to improve the contest?: Beyond my first suggestion? Nothing, really. I know I was kinda slow to post, but that was my fault for entering so many characters. XD

If this is going to happen again I will have to raise the prices (by a few dollars each) due to this consuming a solid chunk of my life and countless hours for very little return. Would anyone still play or would this count you out?: Hell yeah I'd still play. You pretty much have a direct line into my bank account, my drug dealer of lovely things. <3

Which NPC was your favorite and why? (I have to): VIAST FOR LYFE. T_T I think it's because of the bond Mirai formed with her, but I just... loved the woman so much. She was the biggest sweetie I think I've ever seen. As an aside, I love how you managed to work such rich "shades of gray" into things. Not everyone was all good or all bad, and I dig that.

Other comments: I love you forever for doing this. Thank you. <3

[Nathalia]

To those of you who have filled this out so far; Thank You.
It's been an incredible help and I'm taking everything into consideration for how I'll whittle down/beef up different parts of the next contest!
I really value your opinions and this has been a huge help.
Thank you.
If you have not yet done so, I urge you to, even if you only fill out the bits on where you thought the contest could use work.

Thanks guys. <3


~Nathalia

[Greenie]

Character you feel you developed the best and why: Probably Pascha. I feel like his crazy defined a bit more. XD Getting Chandra as a character, though, comes in a landslide first, if that counts. <3

What bit of the plot was your favorite and why?: Seeing everything that went down at Diamonds was a lot of fun. :3

Least favorite?: I don't think I have a least favorite.

What did you feel could use some work on my part? (Please elaborate): Well, I feel like I ended up in a lot of sub-plot threads with my characters. Even when I was keeping up with my threads I had no idea what any of the lowlander/josiggy/basically anything else was because I wasn't involved in any of it. I had a good amount of characters entered, too. Also, my thread with Saethre and Lilac just kinda died out.. Which made me very sad-face.

What do you think was done well, so that it can be replicated in the future?: I really liked the sense of overarching mystery - as in, my characters know something weird is going on with them, but they know everyone else is stuck in it, too.

Less NPCs or a good amount? Did they help or hinder your character growth?: I only had interaction with Rodney and (briefly) Yarrast, so it's hard for me to say. I loved the Rodney interaction, though. <3

NPCs that needed work or were just a pain (eg, added nothing): I didn't personally see enough of them to answer this.

What do you think could be done to improve the contest?: Hmm... I think I've already mentioned my biggest qualm - that I ended up in all sub-plot threads. Perhaps that's just the characters I entered, though. A little bit better pairing of slow versus fast rpers, maybe? I was struggling to keep up even when I was posting fairly often with a few of my threads.

If this is going to happen again I will have to raise the prices (by a few dollars each) due to this consuming a solid chunk of my life and countless hours for very little return. Would anyone still play or would this count you out?: Oh, for sure, I'd play again. <3 I'll probably only enter two or three characters, though, versus the handful I entered this time.

Which NPC was your favorite and why? (I have to): Rodney.

[Varde]

Lucca keeps insisting that I reply to this, so here goes.

Character you feel you developed the best and why:
Fenzik, by default. I really enjoyed getting the chance to develop him in situations that he wouldn't willingly have gone anywhere near. I feel like I understand him as a character a little better now, which is wonderful. When I don't know my RP characters well, I agonize at length over writing for them and each post takes forever -- and that isn't fun for anybody.

To digress slightly... Looking back through the thread I participated in, over the first couple pages, my average time between posts was an utterly embarrassing 13 days. However, over the final couple pages, my average time between posts had improved to 4 days. I know I still have a long way to go, but thanks to this contest, I feel that I've made a pretty significant improvement, and for that I am happy.

What bit of the plot was your favorite and why?:
That's difficult to say, from my limited perspective. I suppose the bit of my thread that gave me the most amusement was Farrago having to deal with a group of inquisitive children, especially Webster.

Least favorite?:
I would have to say the part that resulted in an entire realm going nearly extinct. Even though I've never had the chance to play a Selkie, I've admired them, and it will be a shame to see so much less of their elegant coloration and trademark "fluff", going forward. In a roleplaying environment like this, diversity among characters is king, and it's always unfortunate when some of that potential diversity gets, for one reason or another, diminished.

What do you think was done well, so that it can be replicated in the future?:
I was very impressed by how you gave personal attention to each and every thread, manning NPCs, doling out items, and moving all the plots and sub-plots along. You did an incredible job with this.

Less NPCs or a good amount? Did they help or hinder your character growth?:
I would say a good amount, and they absolutely helped. Both Farrago and Mirung presented Fenzik with moral choices that took him way out of his comfort zone. It was difficult for me to deal with at first, but now I can honestly say that I am grateful for it. Oh, and although it doesn't exactly count as an NPC, the ink blob gets an honorable mention.

NPCs that needed work or were just a pain (eg, added nothing):
None, from my perspective.

If this is going to happen again I will have to raise the prices (by a few dollars each) due to this consuming a solid chunk of my life and countless hours for very little return. Would anyone still play or would this count you out?:
I'm not really in a position to answer this question, given that I was only in this contest by virtue of the freebie ticket from last Easter. That said, without a doubt, it's entirely reasonable for you to expect appropriate (or, at least, closer to appropriate) compensation for something that consumes so much of your time. Whether or not I purchase tickets will depend on my activity level on the site at that point, I suppose. But either way, I know Lucca will be purchasing tickets, and Lucca's money = my money, so... I guess there's your answer.

Which NPC was your favorite and why? (I have to):
Farrago. I may or may not be biased.

Other comments:
THANK YOU for giving up vast portions of your life to run this contest for us. And I would be remiss if I didn't apologize, once more, to anybody who had to roleplay with me and was irritated by my slow posting speed.

[Bee]

Character you feel you developed the best and why: Probably Beraht, just because he sort of came into his own voice in his thread. I tend to write characters as they think (Thalia's posts are spazzy and have a lot of run-on sentences; Phaedra has her immense verbosity; Ananta's posts have a lot of physical cues but rarely spell out her thoughts/emotions), and Beraht was always terrible for me because he is so damn terse that getting 150 words out of him was a nightmare. He'd get to like 60 and have said everything he wanted to say, in the way he wanted to say it, and everything else I had to put in there felt like such filler I hated myself. So a plotted contest really helped me find ways to get him to just say more, which helped me round out his personality a bit more, too. I love him to death and I was so happy that he got out into the world.

What bit of the plot was your favorite and why?: The part with the ink and the Selkies; all the murder was just...so wonderfully intense. I SOUND LIKE A SOCIOPATH. You wrote it all really well. And now, with the wrap-up, the way it all ended...It was a nice gut-punch, because with the realms contests we've had and all the wonderful new regions introduced, I've only ever thought of the realms as expanding. Seeing one effectively wiped off the map was startling and awesome, even though I love Selkies.

Least favorite?: I don't really have a least favorite, honestly.

What did you feel could use some work on my part? (Please elaborate): I'm going to jump on the bandwagon with the people who suggested fewer Dealers and characters per thread. Especially for lame people like me who have an extremely difficult time digging themselves out of thread holes once they start falling behind. I am afraid I am also not manly enough to manage more than probably two characters at a time in a single thread without feeling I'm short-changing them. T_T That said, I totally understand how it would be easier for you to manage things that way, and that merging some things eventually becomes more or less necessary for plot reasons.

What do you think was done well, so that it can be replicated in the future?: ALL THE THINGS. I liked the NPCs, loved the plot. You stayed on top of things like a BOSS. Replicate that, and you've got it made!

Less NPCs or a good amount? Did they help or hinder your character growth?: I thought there was a decent amount of NPCs. They helped move the plot along, certainly, though aside from Rodders I didn't play off them much.

NPCs that needed work or were just a pain (eg, added nothing): Like I said, I didn't play off them much and I pretty much failed at consistently reading other people's threads, so I'm probably not the best judge for this question. XD They all seemed pretty chill to me, for whatever that's worth.

What do you think could be done to improve the contest?: The aforementioned ideas concerning Dealers in threads, mostly! Other than that, things were pretty rockin'.

If this is going to happen again I will have to raise the prices (by a few dollars each) due to this consuming a solid chunk of my life and countless hours for very little return. Would anyone still play or would this count you out?: Not at all! I might enter a couple less characters, but really, I probably shouldn't have entered so many this time around anyway. XD

Which NPC was your favorite and why? (I have to): Awww, hello there Rodney! I am happy you lived, even if Beraht isn't.

Other comments: Sorry it took so long to get to this. Also, thank you again for the intense time investment. <3 If I had a soul, you would most certainly own it. As it stands, please settle for my deep admiration.