Now that we've had some time to adjust to the turn-based style, I figured I'd post this asking which way everyone prefers. This isn't an official poll to decide which style we used, it's just to gather opinions.

I would prefer the full match

BUT

I can't guarantee how long I'd actually fed for

so don't count my vote

If it was still full match, I definitely wouldn't be able to make time to fed.

Full match writing just isn't feasible imo any more, unless word limits are shortened by a fair bit.

But, my opinion means jackall as I ain't fedding.

I will be leaving, so I'm not voting. But this is what I have to say:

Turn-Based is easier. Not everyone is for it. Same goes for Full-Match though. If it ends up going back to Full-Match, please consider having a word limit. Because it's completely unfair when someone writes 5k versus someone who may write 2k. And we can all say "Well... we don't vote on quantity" which is true. But the main issue with something like that, is that in a 5k post versus a 2k post, the 5k post is bound to have more action, more description, more feelings, etc.. if the person does it correctly. That severely puts the other person at a major disadvantage. That's why I hated it. Because I don't write that much and I honestly felt that for my losses against people, if they had a lot more words, they won because they simply wrote more. They ended up having a better post because they got to use and say more than I did.

I can't say that turn-based has increased our showings or anything. I have a topic running where we can list who faced who and if they showed or not. But that's since going turn-based. So it may have caused more people to post and we're simply at a down-number for fedders, or whatever. I don't know.

Again, if it's decided to go back to Full-Match writing, please just consider limiting how much can be written to make it fair.

Turn based fits most people's schedules better.

+1 Turn Based - Less hectic, work is not wasted.

The downside is your opponent noshows and the story is dead.

The one advantage that full match writing has over turn based, for me at least, is the ability to go all out.

In turn-based, the person that goes first has the disadvantage of not being able to do the really huge moves that their opponent can - they can have a couple, but it'd be unrealistic for a match to have several major spots in so early. They have to use some of their allotted words to begin the match, whereas their opponent can continue on from their post, with the freedom of being able to move the match into the second half, where the more impressive stuff usually happens. Also, I really hate starting matches. I just think "oh, ffs, , yadda yadda yadda, bullshit about the two men being about to fight, lock-up, something happens and the match goes into the actual interesting bit," and I've wasted 250 words on all that crap.

The first poster does, however, have the advantage of being able to decide where the match should go. If I'm going first, and I decide that my opponent's character lands awkwardly on their leg and starts limping, then my opponent has to factor in the injured leg into their post, or risk being penalised.

Full match writing eliminates that, and allows both writers the freedom to decide exactly what they want to happen in the match, and when they want it to happen. My main problem with full-match writing is that it tends to be longer, with obvious reason, and I just don't have the motivation for that. As Pretty Hate Machine says, if you lose in full-match writing, then you've done all that work for nothing. At least if you lose doing turn-based fedding, you've at least done something that's going to remain in the record books.

In conclusion, dunno lol.

I'm not a fan of one a piece in regards to turn based. I think it gives the second person to post a big advantage because they get to respond to the first, one up it, and the first poster basically just has to deal with it. I'd much rather see the limit on word count stay, but posts unlimited until deadline.

^ The problem with that, is that everyone still waits until the last minute to post

But then nothing changes for those situations, but it opens up more possibilities for anyone willing to be a little more active with their match.

I don't like the idea of repeated turns, because it's unfair to those who don't have the time or motivation to do numerous posts. They do one, their opponent does multiple and they're at a disadvantage, for the reasons Myke said above about one person writing more than the other.

I can see that. I suppose any way it goes will have advantages and disadvantages. The multiple turns just tends to be my favorite. I find it more competitive.

Matches barely get one post, so thinking unlimited posting in turn-based would ever happen here is pretty illogical. Not to mention the majority don't have that much time, so it wouldn't be competitive at all, because you'd get one person posting once, then the other posting more than once. The person posting twice will most likely win for reason Myke already stated. That's just Megaman style.

Exactly. Multiple turn based posting would cause the same issue with the full match writing. Our cards are only one week long. With the exception of PPVs. Look at the current card. Are there any match posts right now? I don't believe so. People wait until the weekend to post. So we might see posts today/tomorrow and most definitely Monday when it's due.

Just an idea

Abby-Normal wrote:

Just an idea

Why aren't you using your VladmirTStrife account? It's unbanned.

I keep getting the message "You have specified an incorrect or inactive username, or an invalid password." When I try to sign into it

Did you forget your password? ^

Check your PM. I just changed it for you.

Someone changed it and set my language to Portuguese. Which is a nice touch to whoever did that, but doesn't work well considering Chrome detects the change and translates for me, lol

Oh, and thanks, Myke.

VladimirTStrife wrote:

Someone changed it and set my language to Portuguese. Which is a nice touch to whoever did that, but doesn't work well considering Chrome detects the change and translates for me, lol

Portuguese was me. Sometimes I do it to Razor for lols