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"You haven't gotten tired of plucking all those snapdragon out of the ground, have you?" Rowan asked in a teasing manner. "I know it may be a hassle, but I promise it'll be over soon. After that, a beautiful wedding awaits!" she grinned, clapping her hands together. "Oh, but don't worry, we'll make sure everyone gets a little something for all the trouble."
Before giving any hints as to what the little something would be, Rowan quickly turns heel and heads off, seeming giddy.
Congratulations to Rowan's Team for winning the fourth challenge! Both teams will now be able to take a short break until the next challenge, which will begin at 6:30 AM AST on April 20th! Feel free to rest, strategize with your team, or return to your usual Aywas activities until then!
Posted by Aywas Official
(#2) on Sun Apr 19, 2020 7:00pm
- RavenFeather
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Posted on: Mon Apr 20, 2020 11:14am
Sorry, don't know how to ping since I can't find any info on that but,
Kita, I completely understand that, and I am totally fine with this way of tallying the votes since it does make it fairer. Just we shouldn't have been given the scores before they have the tweaking done to them, that's just crazy. And I feel like adding some coding in that does the math and shows us the correct scores right there would have been pretty easy to do partway into this event. So that is why I keep pointing it out, because I feel like it was just getting ignored when, unless you've got some crazy coding or whatever that does make it hard, it'd be easy to add. Especially since we've had times for breaks between the rounds.
But I don't know. I'm obviously not a coder on this site, I have no idea what behind the scenes look like. But from my bit of knowledge on this stuff it just seems weird that it hasn't been changed since it's a big problem, and from what I know, I feel easy to fix.
- Kita🦊
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Posted on: Mon Apr 20, 2020 11:39am
RavenFeather (#49189)
To ping people you just put @ and their ID right behind it ^^
That honestly wasn't something we had thought of before the event - the colors were supposed to signify what round each team was on, so users could tell by that which team was ahead (eg if Minerva was on tables, but Rowan had moved to getting curtains, Rowan's team is in the lead).
Our coder has kids and lives in a different timezone than Aywas time, so he actually did not have time in the 12 hours between rounds (between taking care of kids while his wife is an essential worker and only home 2-3 days a week now, sleeping, and doing other general life things) to make those changes. We unfortunately weren't able to plan for a pandemic to happen and for him to get so busy, so while we normally might have been able to make such an easy change to the coding, that wasn't able to happen this event :c That is why I have continued to say that we are reading the comments, suggestions, complaints, etc. and taking them into account for events we do in the future - now we know what kinds of things to implement in the future.
Posted on: Mon Apr 20, 2020 10:44am
RavenFeather (#49189)
As I've said multiple times before, this is a new way that we were trying. Every single event we're asked to even the playing fields between the teams when one has more users joined than the other. This was our attempt at doing this. This is a learning experience for everyone involved, staff, users, etc. because we have never done it this way. We did not sit down and try to figure out what would be the most annoying, frustrating way to run an event. We sat down, taking into account the requests we have gotten in the past to even the playing field, and tried a different way out.
Again, like I've said at least 3 or 4 times at this point, we are taking feedback into consideration for future events. There's no need to continue pointing out the exact same thing on every single newspost. We plan out events in advance, it isn't extremely easy to change things in the middle of an event.