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[Sun Jul 2010 @ 2:15pm] |
Hey everybody! Two quick little things for you today. :) First, Leah and I have been trying to figure out how to do House Points for ages and we have finally come up with a system that we are happy with! House Points are now dependent on activity.
So, some specifics. As you all know, the activity requirements for Posteritas are that your character posts one journal and participates in one thread each month. However, that's the bare minimum, and now House Points will reward people who go above and beyond! :)
- Beyond the initial required one journal per month, for each additional journal your character posts, their House will be awarded five (5) points.
- Beyond the initial required one thread per month, for each additional thread your character participates in, their House will be awarded ten (10) points.
- For each owl your character sends or replies to, their House will be awarded five (5) points. These five points can only be awarded once per entry; ex: if your character has an owl exchange with another character that lasts six owls, each will receive five points. Team rosters, public notices, bulletins, and so forth are all covered under this category.
- For each other character's journal your character replies to, their House will be awarded one (1) point.
- For each character that fails the activity check (not drops, but that idles out without telling either mod of their intention to drop), their House will lose fifteen (15) points.
ETA- PS! Threads that are complete and marked as such may receive bonus points. How many is still to be determined. Complete threads are not ones that have just idled off, but threads that actually reach a natural conclusion, like the characters parting ways, etc. This is a complete thread, this is not.
Quidditch matches also affect House Point totals. Quidditch matches have been determined ahead of time by random dice rolls, but when a team wins a Quidditch match, their House will be awarded twenty (20) points.
Just as a little example, for those of you who learn best by them (like me :D)...Sally is a Gryffindor. During July/September, Sally posts four journals, replies to nine journals, participates in three threads, sends one owl, and replies to two owls. So, 3*5 + 9*1 + 2*10 + 1*5 + 2*5 = 59 points to Gryffindor. Tadah!
Leah and I will tally this when we do the activity check, which will be the first of each month. We'll post a list in the OOC with how many House Points each character has earned as well as the totals, and we'll also update the House Point totals on the Daily Events page.
Second order of business, staff aides! We've talked a bit about this and there is a bit in the FAQ about it, but now we're making it all official and shit, 'cause we like things that are official and shit. An aide helps out for a couple of hours a week (anywhere from 1-5) in either the library (Madame Veda), the nurse's office (Healer Nott), the greenhouses (Professor Longbottom), or the paddocks (Professor Pendragon). They do menial tasks, like making beds, watering plants, reshelving books, and so on. Each staff member can only have one aide at a time, but a student can aide for more than one staff member if they so choose. Students can only aide on weekdays between breakfast and dinner (and not during meals), so any time from 9AM-5PM that they don't have class.
So that the aide blocks aren't overlapping, please reply to this post if you're interested in having your kid pick up an aide block, and we will add them to the list we're working on right now. If you decide you want an aide block in two weeks or whatever, reply to the Class Schedules/Rosters/Staff post.
That's it! Any questions/etc can be left here, if I suck at explaining. :D
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