Discussion Forum by travelbug
August 16th, 2007 7:05 PMmuchas gracias.
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Yes, I'm with the aardvark on this one. This is less about how sf0.org can be improved.
Also, if you complete a task that is retired, a good thing to remember is that the boys like clever bits of mail.
A last call a week or two before task retirement would sure be nice, at the risk of removing a little of the dramatic tension in the game.
Is it true that you can submit a completion if you sign up for a task but fail to complete it before deactivation? If not, then it should be.
Dear Loki,
It is true. I have holdovers from Impossible Exchange, still waiting to be finished.
Love,
Inky
Sounds like it's "bug someone to un-retire the task" time, 'bug. If there'd been a clue that someone was about to break the pattern of myspace posts and photoshop'd images submitted for that task, it might still be with us today...
bug, bug, bug, bug, bug, bug
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travel (ahem) bug
A good preventative measure is to sign up and begin documenting tasks as you go but I know the feeling as I think all other players do too.
My vote is not so much for this task as all the work you did to spread SFØ.
Fucking myspace®
having a warning that a task will soon retire might engender a last minute rush that could be quite interesting. Nothing is more desirable than something that is about to be taken away from you....
Could engender last minute craptastic completions too…
You can tell when a task is going to be retired because a bunch of people submit awful commpletions.
I would just like to point out to you guys that towards the end of the Impossible Exchange Era Darkaardvark completed both the Fake a Proof and the Mysterious Collaboration tasks and did so wondrously within only couple of weeks before the reset.
I think that the SFZero News or whatever it is called should give a reminder of the reset date once we start to get close, but I think that the only people who will bother to complete once we get down to the wire will be the people who had truly good completions in mind and just wanted to have a chance to show what they can do before they are set back to zero.
Granted, there will always be those idiots who will frantically make 'craptastic' posts right before the end, but frankly I believe most players who don't have something either exceptional or far out to try before the reset will have enough sense to not post it.
countdown clock to task retirement. on every task.
allow task creators to set retirement date.
automatic task retirement.
Your suggestion is more of a general thing, but if there's a specific task that you've already started to complete or have spent time planning, if you let one of the admins know, they'll usually unretire it for you (I don't know if it's just for you or in general, but I know it has happened for others before).