Grindstone New Ideas

[Fystrael Abylstyrwyn]

I've had my fight time and I'm more familiar with Grindstone's fighting concepts, so now I can say I can ref matches, but my Wednesdays are mostly shot by my work schedules and RL family.

 

Gharen, your suggestion is great.  Separation would also allow the Overseer to log the fights and then message the logs to me for compiling on the forums.  The amount of cleaning and editing this would save est vraimente magnifique, monsieur!

 

Plus, if we keep our location, we could have a stream battle, one in the middle of the training camp, one on the bridge and the vendors/crafters can set up on the shoreline.  Win/win?

[YesGood]

I've had my fight time and I'm more familiar with Grindstone's fighting concepts, so now I can say I can ref matches, but my Wednesdays are mostly shot by my work schedules and RL family.

 

Gharen, your suggestion is great.  Separation would also allow the Overseer to log the fights and then message the logs to me for compiling on the forums.  The amount of cleaning and editing this would save est vraimente magnifique, monsieur!

 

Plus, if we keep our location, we could have a stream battle, one in the middle of the training camp, one on the bridge and the vendors/crafters can set up on the shoreline.  Win/win?

 

That's not a bad idea but for time's sake we'll need to set up two more groups. What we might have to do is go out there and test the distance of our /say so that none of the fighters are overlapping.

[Gharen]

I would just put it out there that... the current model for the Grindstone is pretty awesome as it is. New innovation isn't necessarily... um... necessary, at this point, in my opinion. Cool ideas are cool, but the Grindstone doesn't necessarily have to change in some big way.

 

Just my two gil, of course.

 

Sadly, something -does- have to change. Two days out of the week doesn't seem like a big deal or anything but I have a baby and trying to force him to go to sleep early on nights he doesn't want to sleep is not conducive to a good mother-baby relationship. I'm always worried the tourney's not going to get off the ground without me.

 

Not to mention as they are now they're incredibly chaotic and even I see that. Enjoyable, yes, but chaotic. There just has to be more that can be done.

 

Changes -are- necessary, but in conjunction to them, additions are what I'm looking at and there don't have to be many but there will be a few. Likely I will just combine one or two of the ideas and use them for blood matches and the rest'll be IC things.

 

So another change that needs to be implemented, someone needs to be designated as a tourney runner that can take up the slack for Sio. I'll be more than happy to run the tourneys those every other weds nights I have off. This way mom and baby can have a quality relationship and, as I'm sure we can all agree a mom that isn't frayed at the ends is a happy mom.

 

Measuring earshot distance won't be to hard to figure out. Person A stands where we want a ring to be while occasionally saying something like "Can you hear me now?" while person B walks away from A and reports when they no longer see the spam, add a few meters extra distance to account for participants moving around and ta-da you have your ring location. In my experience it earshot isn't too far in this game midpoint

[YesGood]

I would just put it out there that... the current model for the Grindstone is pretty awesome as it is. New innovation isn't necessarily... um... necessary, at this point, in my opinion. Cool ideas are cool, but the Grindstone doesn't necessarily have to change in some big way.

 

Just my two gil, of course.

 

Sadly, something -does- have to change. Two days out of the week doesn't seem like a big deal or anything but I have a baby and trying to force him to go to sleep early on nights he doesn't want to sleep is not conducive to a good mother-baby relationship. I'm always worried the tourney's not going to get off the ground without me.

 

Not to mention as they are now they're incredibly chaotic and even I see that. Enjoyable, yes, but chaotic. There just has to be more that can be done.

 

Changes -are- necessary, but in conjunction to them, additions are what I'm looking at and there don't have to be many but there will be a few. Likely I will just combine one or two of the ideas and use them for blood matches and the rest'll be IC things.

 

So another change that needs to be implemented, someone needs to be designated as a tourney runner that can take up the slack for Sio. I'll be more than happy to run the tourneys those every other weds nights I have off. This way mom and baby can have a quality relationship and, as I'm sure we can all agree a mom that isn't frayed at the ends is a happy mom.

 

Measuring earshot distance won't be to hard to figure out. Person A stands where we want a ring to be while occasionally saying something like "Can you hear me now?" while person B walks away from A and reports when they no longer see the spam, add a few meters extra distance to account for participants moving around and ta-da you have your ring location. In my experience it earshot isn't too far in this game midpoint

 

I'll greatly appreciate it. He'll be asleep at 10 or maybe later I just hate to be late to my own event then I feel rushed and panicked and it's harder when people are AFK'ing. Then the tourney lasts like 5 hours. It's lovely, I'm happy, it's just hectic is all.

 

When we get on, we'll have to find landmarks.

[Gharen]

In my experience it earshot isn't too far in this game midpoint

 

This is what I get for running with multiple thoughts in my head while multitasking at work.

 

In my experience earshot isn't too far in this game midpoint on the bridge to one of the posts on the ends seems to be a safe distance where things are not overheard.

[Vigh Mor'talia]

If you are still interested in adding a mercantile element to the RP then Lunar Revolution could assist.  Vigh and her mate are a tad bit young and naive to many facets of Eorzea but crafting/repair/bartering is something they know well.  Perhaps being brought in to handle some repairs for armor after one of the matches?  Or if there needs to be an order placed for items for an upcoming event.  

 

IC'ly they would get a huge thrill out of simply watching one of the battles or knowing they are contributing in some way or another.  Feel free to contact me if you want to brainstorm anything, thanks!

[YesGood]

If you are still interested in adding a mercantile element to the RP then Lunar Revolution could assist.  Vigh and her mate are a tad bit young and naive to many facets of Eorzea but crafting/repair/bartering is something they know well.  Perhaps being brought in to handle some repairs for armor after one of the matches?  Or if there needs to be an order placed for items for an upcoming event.  

 

IC'ly they would get a huge thrill out of simply watching one of the battles or knowing they are contributing in some way or another.  Feel free to contact me if you want to brainstorm anything, thanks!

 

 I think that's a fantastic idea. Having merchants peddling their wares like Aleister would be great at the tournaments. I think our FC could also use some mercantile relations, for discounts and information if they have it. I need to find an FC member to dedicate to relations with merchants; setting up alliances and making arrangements for discounts in return for inviting them to peddle their things at the events.

 

I thought for sure I responded to this earlier! So sorry. I'll be starting a Grindstone relations thread soon for those other LSs that think that working something out would be a great idea. I also noticed during the Linkshell leader meeting someone brought up the idea that I believe Lost River proposed: That FC vs FC competitions should be held. I'm going to go c+p that post into the new thread as well.

 

Thank you guys for all the feedback. I think I have a fleshed out idea of what to do from here on and it's just a matter of organizing at this point.