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Should Lusternia bring back Bardics and Artisinals?
How do we feel about bringing back a lucrative way for players to be creative with the world of Lusternia? Share your thoughts.
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Also I would like to specifically bring back my own single entry to the artisanals because I can't find it anywhere online or in my archives.
Estarra the Eternal says, "Give Shevat the floor please."
Instead, have organizations actually reward people for writing books and plays and stimulate Bardics that way. Could even source some of the writing for the website as kind of a direct link to the book, if someone writes an epic or somesuch. You get my drift hopefully.
theatre due to the snowy weather.
hungering malice.
Looking over the stuff running on the website (chrome plugins are really diverse), I'm not super sure what would make bardics complicated, they should actually be (slightly) easier than artisanals, and the stuff that would be nice to have is applicable to both so wouldn't make one harder than the other.
Unless it's processes or extra requirements beyond... "players need to be able to submit a form with their entry." and the other comments are inaccurate.
I would like to see it back for artisanal though. There is no way to emulate that IG
Estarra the Eternal says, "Give Shevat the floor please."
It’s easy to be cruel without meaning to be. There’s nothing you can do about that. But you can choose to be kind. Be kind.’
theatre due to the snowy weather.
hungering malice.
There is zero reason we shouldn’t have bardics and artisanals back at this point. They build interest in the game, reward people for that interest, and are divorced from any IC limitations since they reward the player not the character. They’re great! Bring them back!
I think if the game are giving out 9000 free credits a month to cities and cities decide not to shell out credits for library things, is that not player power voting for things they would rather reward? Does make you wonder what they are spending them on!
@Coraline has pointed out the flaw in my maths!
I was working on 2 years per month - it is actually 11,250 credits per RL month.
Let's talk about IG books though, since they were often double-dipped for Bardics. Let's remove the limitation of one scholarly and one literary, and just allow for two books to be pushed each cycle. Let people go nuts and write stories rather than having to find a subject that can gather enough canon information about and not be a regurgitation of something that already exists just so they can get enough words for scholarly credit to matter. I know I personally wouldn't mind spending a good amount of time writing a long series of books, releasing a chapter each cycle, but it just doesn't seem worth it, because most Orgs are either low-balling the payout or take forever to even payout credits in some cases. So if Bardics did make a comeback, perhaps they shouldn't be something that can also be submitted to the game libraries for double-dipping, but my opinion is probably the unpopular one.
If you're just looking at them as a writing exercise then by the same logic we shouldn't have plays because they're also ultimately just a writing exercise. There's also a difference in the outcomes where you have something that's there to go up on the website vs something that's an IC activity that helps expand the world within the game.
Double-dipping also doesn't seem like much of an issue personally if it's the original author and not someone trying to get credit for a "bardic anthology" or the like where they haven't actually written the works or got permission for them.
I may also have been guilty of converting a book into a stage performance. Or publishing an anthology of songs, some of which would have been performed on stage.
It doesn’t feel worth it sometimes to write things when you know they’ll be pending another player’s editing before their submission, then delayed full publication by the library reviewing process, possibly even rejected due to your misunderstanding scholarly guidelines or due to writing more of an OOC satire than an IC one, might not be submitted for prestige for IC years due to a surplus of submissions and/or an inactive librarian, and ultimately even if you win the contest the org gets the automatic reward, not you!
You, the writer, may still be waiting for the long promised org reward, only to be ghosted or offered a much smaller reward than your peers in other orgs.
Bardics reward players. The library rewards organizations. Ultimately the organization decides if they want to reward people for contributing to the library mechanic.
Seems if the form issue is resolved, bring them back.
If the issue is time for judging, unsure how to resolve that. How hard is it to judge anyways? How many submissions are you even getting?