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ARC Off-Season?
Topic Started: Jun 20 2015, 06:37 PM (92 Views)
prince palatine
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Hello folks, just thought I'd bring this up.

In the last few months I've noticed that a few (Myself included) seem practically burned out from having to write constant RP's and/or results back to back to back for tournaments non stop since Ruination 1 onwards. There's no denying that that amount of commitment is slightly insane at the best of times, and it causes us to wrack our brains in the smallest window possible to actually pluck a bot out of thin air and perfect within a week of the next tournament or sometimes mid tournament itself, which can easily cause design blocks which wont be good for the community as a whole.

So what do I propose? Maybe some form of off season of 3-5 months max between each and every tournament. That way, everyone can come up with better and fresh ideas without the panic of distracting themselves from RP's. It also helps the writing staff to recharge their batteries so that writing can seem fun again and less of a chore.

What are your thoughts on the matter? Just threw this out there with the best intentions of the forum and people competing as a whole.
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Honours

Robot Attack LW Runner Up (With The Servant's Assistant)
FRR: Dead Zone LW Runner Up (With The Servant's Assistant)
Ruination: The Beginning joint third place (With The Servant's Assistant, Camo Alert and Hammer & Nailz)
Crazy Bots Blazing Ruin: MW Runner Up (Merry Hampton BR) and SHW CHAMPION!!! (F-Dynasty)
League of Robotic Excellence: MW 3rd place (Terminus) and LW CHAMPION!!! (The Servant's Assistant 3)
Ruination: The Omen: MW joint 3rd place (Merry Hampton BR) SHW joint 3rd place (Curse Of The Deep 2) and HW CHAMPION!!! (Klarinette)
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playzooki
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I could do arc assbots in the off season, as that doesnt take much effort (except maybe for me and whoever else is writing)
March or Die - Ruination: The Omen MW Last Eight, Ruination: The Omen Tag Team Champion (with the Green Hornet / NWOWWE), Ruination: The Contagion MW CHAMPION
Corrupt Politician - Reign of Steel SHW Finalist
Murder Is Fun! - Reign of Steel HW Semi-Finalist
Shrek - Hammerfall 4th Place

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I'm starting to regret entering.
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British-Robotics
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I think a nice long break would help rest my brain and my cogs from burning out. At the moment after refurbishing some of my robots I'm nearly there to reach the same level as you guys :).
TEAM TBR


Team:

FRR Backlash
Powerdrive Jr 0-4
Lethal Carriageway 3-1
Sparkster 4-0
Chemical Explosion V2
1-3
"Completely British Killers"

Ruination: The Contagion:
Chemical Explosion - SHW Champion
Rocket Knight - HW Quarter Finalist


Awards:
Ruination: The Contagion:
Chemical Explosion: (Astrobot Award, The Windmill Award, Blood Thirsty Award (Shared with Redemption Denied)
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MadBull
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Two things.

1. Every individual who wants a break is free to take a break. I have done that over the years. If after LoRE you don't feel like participating in a tournament for a few weeks, you are completely free to just not enter the tournament that comes after LoRE! ARC isn't given you this workload, participants are giving themselves this workload by entering. If I felt burned out by ARC I sure as fuck would know what I would do, lol.

2. This is not meant as a dig at anyone, but, something I actually wouldn't mind at all and that would both lessen the workload AND potentially help the current tournament, is if we would RP for LoRE every 2 weeks instead of every week? Think about it, the concept of the tournaments here is that activity happens on a weekly basis with results posted shortly after the RP deadline, of course every tournament has freedom to create another approach but as far as I know with LoRE that is not the case. LoRE's results are consistently one week late, and are now for 2 weeks in a row more than a week late. This may well be related to the workload Lian mentions. I legitimately think, if more people than just Lian experience that each week they are busier with this game than they'd want, that if LoRE would adopt a system in which we RP every 2 weekends, with results posted around the weekend in between, pressure would be taken off some people.
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That Kode Guy
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MadBull
Jun 21 2015, 08:23 AM
2. This is not meant as a dig at anyone, but, something I actually wouldn't mind at all and that would both lessen the workload AND potentially help the current tournament, is if we would RP for LoRE every 2 weeks instead of every week? Think about it, the concept of the tournaments here is that activity happens on a weekly basis with results posted shortly after the RP deadline, of course every tournament has freedom to create another approach but as far as I know with LoRE that is not the case. LoRE's results are consistently one week late, and are now for 2 weeks in a row more than a week late. This may well be related to the workload Lian mentions. I legitimately think, if more people than just Lian experience that each week they are busier with this game than they'd want, that if LoRE would adopt a system in which we RP every 2 weekends, with results posted around the weekend in between, pressure would be taken off some people.
I could attempt this with Ruination 3, tbh.
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