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    I make that 21 players signed on so far:

    TheFlax
    Cultured Drizzt Fan
    Cecil XIX
    GeneralHankerchief
    TinCow
    YLC
    Ignoramus
    everyone
    mini
    Rowan
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    econ21
    Marcus Aggripa
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    Ituralde
    AussieGiant
    woad&fangs
    Ramses II CP
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    Overknight
    Beskar
    Andres?
    Northnovas
    TheLemongate


    Assuming equal distribution across Houses, that would be five per House, which is a good number. My jaw is still on the ground at the idea of spawning 16 RBGs on turn 1, but in the long term, this level of participation would be great.
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    Quote Originally Posted by econ21 View Post
    My jaw is still on the ground at the idea of spawning 16 RBGs on turn 1, but in the long term, this level of participation would be great.
    We've come a long way since your day, old man.

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    Quote Originally Posted by econ21 View Post
    Assuming equal distribution across Houses, that would be five per House, which is a good number. My jaw is still on the ground at the idea of spawning 16 RBGs on turn 1, but in the long term, this level of participation would be great.
    16 is nothing. In LotR, I spawned 56 on the first turn.


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    Quote Originally Posted by TinCow View Post
    16 is nothing. In LotR, I spawned 56 on the first turn.


    Just out of curiosity, roughly what proportion of the 56 were active after 10 turns?

    I was very interested to see how you allocated the avatars, although I hope whatever process Zim uses, it does not take 7 days for players to finish it. I am itching to start writing a story...

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    Each player got a choice of RBGs (after the first batch, players got to pick from three), so there were plenty left over.

    I'd say that there were around 20 initial stories introducing all of the avatars in the game's opening days.
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    And then there was Bart...

    About every scenario I devised as his backstory was already posted when I finally got him. In the end I finally figured a backstory for him but never wrote, let alone posted it...

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    Quote Originally Posted by econ21 View Post


    Just out of curiosity, roughly what proportion of the 56 were active after 10 turns?

    I was very interested to see how you allocated the avatars, although I hope whatever process Zim uses, it does not take 7 days for players to finish it. I am itching to start writing a story...
    56 were spawned because there were 4 family members, thus 60 total avatars, which was double the number of players we had (30 players at start). We then went through a lottery, with priority given based on participation in the previous game (KotR) and in the test game that preceded LotR (this is what we did for avatar priority in KotR, so it was just continuing the tradition). First person on the list got their pick of any avatar, family member or RBG, on the list. When they were done, their chosen avatar was removed, and the second person picked. Rinse and repeat until all 30 players had chosen, at which point all extra RBGs were killed off to bring the avatars back down to 30. It actually worked pretty well and didn't take very long at all.


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    Quote Originally Posted by TinCow View Post
    56 were spawned because there were 4 family members, thus 60 total avatars, which was double the number of players we had (30 players at start). We then went through a lottery, with priority given based on participation in the previous game (KotR) and in the test game that preceded LotR (this is what we did for avatar priority in KotR, so it was just continuing the tradition). First person on the list got their pick of any avatar, family member or RBG, on the list. When they were done, their chosen avatar was removed, and the second person picked. Rinse and repeat until all 30 players had chosen, at which point all extra RBGs were killed off to bring the avatars back down to 30. It actually worked pretty well and didn't take very long at all.
    That was a very good system and something I'd recommend Zim do again this time.

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    I been convinced to give this a shot, so I apologise for any n00bness in advance (blame TheFlax).
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    Quote Originally Posted by Beskar View Post
    I been convinced to give this a shot, so I apologise for any n00bness in advance (blame TheFlax).
    Beskar is guilty, I can tell...


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