[Official Event] Snake Eyes

[Petitioner]

This is an extremely interesting concept for an event. I'm very excited for it (even if I doubt I'll be able to participate myself), so please don't take my feedback too harshly, because overall I think this is genuinely awesome and I'm super mega hype to see how it goes. That said, I do have a few concerns—perhaps better said, "observations".

• Constraints: The primary one is the extraordinarily short duration. An event with RP consequences (the writeup post doesn't specify whether they are major or minor ones, though it implies they'd be larger but the trend in recent times has been for minimizing consequences of player activity as much as possible, if any consequences exist at all) lasting for a mere hour seems absurd to me; particularly given the scant ten minutes for any transports to actually purchase the slaves, as without slave haulers there is no event. People will be late because of RL, there will be technical issues, etc etc. These things happen with every event, and larger time windows are probably the best way to give people time to work around these things.
  
  
• Execution: Given the short duration, expecting people to do extensive roleplay during the event seems a little strange. With all due respect to the community, I find the notion of an Outcast cruiser sitting and chatting with a GNI kidnapping operation, or an IMG strike wing discussing the political implications of their actions with the Cryer transport they're demanding custody of the refugees from, or people writing forum posts while also forward gunning a Crayterian gunboat filled with slaves, to be frankly absurd. If you aren't literally expecting these things to happen during this hour-long period, you really ought to make that more clear in the OP.
  
  
• Analysis: I very much like the idea of people writing AARs for custom forum titles as well as impacting(?) the outcome of the event with their writing. However, it would be nice if you would clarify what kind of time limit there is on these RP submissions. It would also probably make things a lot easier on the processing end if you created a premade template for submitters to use when reporting their slave deliveries.
  
  
• Precedent: The very short duration of this event, the expectations placed upon players for its duration, and the detailed assessment of player actions during and after the event all implicitly require a level of control, attention to detail, and spontaneity on the part of whoever is "running it" that, to my eyes, seems extremely out of character for Discovery events. This is not necessarily a bad thing. More than a typical Disco event, it makes me think of the sorts of GM-run events in D&D/PF "living world" campaigns that seems entirely spontaneous to players, or spur-of-the-moment mini-plots that staff rope players into in something like Neverwinter Nights or more longform Space Station 13 servers. I know that Discovery has experimented with such things before, though unfortunately I was entirely unable to participate in them (at first due to terrible lag—forum search "what's wrong with Haymaker"—and later because I lacked a PC for several years) but I've gotten the impression they were well-liked. If this event is an attempt to soft-pivot towards doing more impromptu "GM"-run events again, I'd be delighted to hear about it because not only would that get me to log in more often, but it would likely be highly engaging for new players as well. However, if extremely short-form events like this are going to continue to take weeks or months to plan (because I know this one's been cooking for a while), then I have to express skepticism about the prospects of such.
  

All that said, I am cautiously very optimistic and I look forward to trying to show up but having my attention snatched away by something urgent IRL at the last minute seeing how it goes (even if that's just by reading the after-action reports written by my fellow GNI members or whoever else).

Also, it's nice to see IMG getting something we can actually participate in (unlike the absolutely kafkaesque Dublin event).

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