[FAQ] Delivery Games
Delivery Games are small community building games first initiated by mik (Arctic Circle). There is great value in activities such as this, yet there needs to be guidelines in order to facilitate a currently running game.
Firstly, to make a thread quite clear it is for a Delivery Game, a good naming convention should be adopted. Consistency is the only method for success, so the titles of the games can be called whatever the creator likes, provided it have [DG] before it.
Example: [DG] Arctic Circle
Take care to make sure a [DG] for a particular set has not been created before starting a thread for the same icon set. In the inevitable event that multiple threads are created upon discovery of a new set, be gracious enough to delete yours if it has a more recent creation time stamp (19 minutes ago vs. 25 minutes ago).
The steps to participate are simple:
1 Make a post in the thread if (and only if) you have the tokens to accept the delivery once it has been actually released. Take note of the person who posted before you (if you are the first response to the thread, the creator is the person before you). This is the only member that you should accept the delivery from.
2 Upon receiving the set, send it to the person who posted in the thread after you.
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THE RULES
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• Do not post in the thread more than once.
• Do not post in the thread if you do not have the minimum number of tokens needed to accept the set upon release. If, for some reason, you run out of the minimum tokens required prior to the release of the set, delete your comment.
• If you receive the set for free (from a chef), delete your comment as soon as possible
• Do not send the set to any other member playing.
• If you are not playing, please take the time to record the names of those that are so that you do not send the set to them.
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kmfnj on May 10, 2007
Very nice faq Tamashii - I agree we should adopt a naming convention for DG's - its very sensible and (should) make them easier to spot.
Admittedly I haven't played most of them because I didn't know they were there... maybe your suggestions could help change that.
Luckybeitia on May 10, 2007
What would we do without you, tamashii?
daveamun on May 10, 2007
This would take the cooperation of the chefs but ...
if they designated a set as a [DG] set that could only be delivered once by each person then the game could be spam-proofed.
Of course, the 7-day wait for unclaimed deliveries should be knocked back to one day - and if someone doesn't send a claimed delivery on then they lose that set and the chefs send out another
hmmm .... would take some tinkering, thinking out loud
mitten on May 10, 2007
"• If you are not playing, please take the time to record the names of those that are so that you do not send the set to them."
That's going to be nearly impossible to enforce. I mean, it would be nice and all, and the rest of the guidelines seem very sound, but I just don't think you'll be able to count on that last one at all. It's asking a lot to ask everyone here to keep track of games that presumably they're not interesting in playing, let alone abiding by the rules of.
Perhaps as an alternative, participants could put a note in their boxes to the effect of "I'm playing a game for X Set, please don't send that one to me."
daveamun on May 10, 2007
@mitten: That does not work with some senders. And the unwelcome sends just keep the rightful sender from passing on the set :-(
tamashii on May 10, 2007
@mitten: Ya, I know it is impossible to enforce, but the rule isn't a mandatory demand or anything. It is just a way for us to make others aware that there will be times unsolicited sends just won’t work for a set.
Ultimately, it is directed towards those that have jumped from the game for one reason or another. If you get the set for free, you are no longer playing the current game, right? That doesn’t mean, however, that you can start sending to everyone else that happens to still be playing.
Also, I put a very similar statement saying I was playing the game, but that didn't prevent 3 people from still sending it to me. Just a simple decline and statement to them making them aware that you are playing a game is the best anyone can do.
mik on May 12, 2007
How 'bout.. if you are prevented from sending, post a note to the recipient telling them you'll be trying again and they should clear the 'wrong' delivery; if you are repeatedly prevented from sending to the person you're supposed to send to, post to the game master's box (ie the person who initially posted the game) and they will let you know what to do.
If they've accepted the set already, go ahead and skip them, leaving a note reminding them to remove themselves from the game list.
Can somebody come up with a name for this game (accept from and send to specific members in order) so we can play other games and use the [DG] tag for all of them? I have ideas for at least one other game but have been holding back for fear of excessive chaos!
@tamashii: thank you!