QUOTE (R4N @ May 31 2010, 11:33 AM)
Respawn has operated a 400+ player event 16 times, with only the assumption that we would get enough players through the door. This is no longer a viable strategy for us. While we had over 800 people register for respawn 16, we did not fill the event. Honestly, we find it unfair to cater for 500 people when 350-400 turn up.
Yeah, I know what you mean, at v16 there were still heaps of seats empty from what I could see.
Personally, I reckon you guys should invoke a 'loyalty' system thingo... People who register and are in the top XXX for the event and don't show,
(you should be able to tell cause they don't pick up their tags) should be given a "mark" against their name or something.
Thus, you could possibly make it so that these players with 'marks' against their name/account, when they sign up for the next event, get pushed out of the event in the circumstance of them being in the top XXX. Alternatively, you could make it, 2 "marks" and then they get pushed out... (however I like the idea of if you miss an event,
the next one they register for they get pushed out of)
Ofc, then you'd have to create some way of also letting players appeal this (say if their car dies, computer isnt working no more, or family emergency etc etc).
Just an idea is all...
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