It's an interesting way to go. I would remove XP for wins. Wins come into play in league standings and event titles-prizes.
Perhaps rather than experience for wins there could be an honor bonus. Champions are more highly esteemed and would have more perceived honor. Honor comes into play only as the third level ranking in league standings.
So much of this is random based on dice rolls rather than any actual skill. So I think experience should be awarded for participation.
Fair points! No extra xp for wins or unhorsing, sounds good!
We might also consider awarding experience points for participation other than jousting.
Perhaps every time a photo story (knight themed only?) is posted to the forum some experience points would be awarded to the member that they could bestow upon one of their knights in the league.
I love story points. But they would only be awarded if it is about the knight or the background of the knight and only applicable to that specific knight. Of course if it's applicable to different knights in the league the owner can choose.
Maybe have categories: short story, story, chaptered story with different point values for each?
Do we want to set a limit for the total number of knights that a sponsor/member can have in the league at a time?
A member can have as many jousters in the league as he or she wants. It just means that he won't have one very good knight, but more mediocre ones.
Ah, sorry, a false assumption. I will fix it this evening.
One that was easily made :-) no worries, and thanks for fixing it :-)
I think most tournaments will limit to one knight per sponsor, with the host having 2 additional spots they can fill as they see fit. We could make this a league rule?
League Rule...so we hereby found the PJL Playmo Jousting League....sounds good to me :-)
Maybe you can have a PJL page on Animobil, with current league standings, results from tournaments and a page with the winners including picture from the various events...(somebody stop me *grin*)
There are people who missed the chance to get into the last one, and there may be people who don't choose to continue on. It's possible tournament size will get bigger and require additional bracketing.
I think what I did was the max we want to really. It's 63 matches, if you want to give them all run per run photo stories its a lot of work. I was thinking of having the MAIN event always be 32 competitors, top 15 of the league are automatically qualified + 1 wildcard for the event holder. All other knights need to duke it out in preliminary rounds which will only consist of ONE picture per match.
For instance if there are 40 people, the top 24 qualify directly the remaining 16 do a single elimination for the remaining 8 spots.
We could do a Category B tournament,again with just 1 picture per match, for the people that didnt make it into the Main Event. These part of the tournament could potentially be handled by somebody other then the organizer so he can focus on the main event.
I think we should raise the point values of Wins in the Main event to 2 and all Prelim and CatB event matches should be worth 1 point for a win. These matches should also be only for half the XP, if we decide to use that.
The big photo stories like Gis has just done and like I am planning for the summer require a large collection of jousting knights. People with smaller collections may want to host tournaments as well. I think this can be handled cooperatively with Gis, myself, or some other member who has the missing knights taking photos to be blended into a joust story.
Of course I am always willing to help.
