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Umm, right. So early planning biggrin
Below this point is a BLOCK OF TEXT that you will probably not remember. So I suggest whipping out a notepad and writing your comments down as you go along

1. Preferred week for the event? And would anyone be adverse to it being a week long? Maybe a week and a half. Idk, most of the more successful events I run last about that long

2. Schedule of events
We have to decide what events are going to be on what day and such and which shop is doing what mini event(s). I figure the event should have several mini events held by different shops on different days with some longer general events (auction/raffle/mini art contest/advertising?)
You can toss up ideas on what you'd like to do for events (get like...a list of 5ish mini events?), we don't need exact dates until around late may or june
Also I'm not sure if we need the advertising. There are already going to be 3 shops and that's plenty of regulars to keep it busy. Maybe we could have some fun bonus (ie: Extrasensory has like 4+ branches of random minipet things) for whoever sticks a "Team _________" banner in their sig for the duration of the event.

3. Thread speed: This is what actually concerns me the most. Threads go at different speeds and people are comfortable with the normal speed of their thread. I really hope the thread speed doesn't scare off anyone or leave anyone behind. Any ideas/comments/opinions about this?

4. Emblems: So, how many emblems should each shop give away in the span of the event? Maybe 50-60? So there are plenty to get but it may be troublesome handing out that many so idk. Oh, every shop owner should make a nifty emblem thing representative of their shop. We should probably impose some sort of size standard to make them semi-uniform. 100x100?

5. The Event System: So I finally worked on fermenting my plan for this event more.
Basically it's a fun competition between our 3 shops to see who is the very best like no one ever was and hopefully it will bring great fun to all of our regulars xd
The first thing everyone will do is declare which shop-team they will pledge allegiance to in a thread I'll stick in this guild or something (Alternate option: every shop can make a thread and keep track of their own minions and I can check those threads periodically to compile a master list to make sure no one is double-crossing sides) No matter what shop you pledge your loyalty to, you will still have the ability to win all the prizes in the event.
The winner of this competition will be determined by the final emblem count (70%), Auction/Raffle scores (10%), and Mixer score (20%)
So first emblems. Through mini events, shops will distribute "emblems" through events like flaffles, trivia, dice rolling, choose your own adventure, idk there are 80+ different ways to do it. Be creative! Just make sure that it's equal opportunity. If it is trivia, it can only be generic trivia that is pokemon themed without any shop-specific info. Also events should be loosely pokemon related. Everyone can earn any shop's emblem.You must give away a set number of emblems by the end of the event. The goal, obviously, is to get your shop-minions to collect the most emblems for your shop.

Then the second determining factor is auction/raffle score. Okay, so here's where calculations get /slightly/ complicated. All in total there will be (x) amount of emblems. 70% of the emblems (marked team emblems) are given out through the mini events. 10% of the total is given out by the auction + raffle and these emblems are called AR (auction/raffle) emblems and I'll make some spiffy image for them. Basically the shop who snags the highest price for an auction will win 1.5 (rounded up!)% of the AR emblems (1.5% (rounded down) goes to the bid-maker and his/her team). 2nd place wins 1% (1% goes to the bid maker), 3rd place wins .5 (rounded up)% (.5% rounded down goes to the bid maker).
Same goes for the number of tickets in a raffle.
These auctions/raffles will run simultaneously throughout the whole event (I may create a separate thread so bids/orders don't get lost) and each shop is responsible for their own auction bids/raffle tickets. Also only 1 auction pokemon and 1 raffle pokemon per shop. It can be whatever you dare to put up there.

Okay so 20% of the emblems are friendship emblems (yes lame name I know hush) rofl
This is centered off Extrasensory's mixer events which help promote bonding/mixing between newbies and oldbies. It's gotten a pretty positive reception. Basically, if you have had a great minimum of 5 post conversation with another person, you can post in a thread and "vouch" for them by saying something like "HEY I HAD A GREAT CONVERSATION WITH ________!" This vouching will give that person who is vouched for a "ticket." You cannot vouch for the same person twice but you can vouch for an unlimited amount of people. The person who gets the most tickets gets 10% of the Friendship emblems. 2nd most gets 5%. 3rd most gets 3%. 2% will be given to whoever the random generator generates. I may throw in a pokemon or two for this because this is one of the main things the event is centered around: meeting other pogey shop peeps and chilling out in a friendly environment
It's great fun. But...I would totally like help managing the tickets, for the sake of my mental sanity (not that I have much left). We could do shifts or something? depending on the day? I'm not sure how active/popular this will be >>;

Friendship/AR emblems are totaled at the very end of the event. So anyways at the end of the event, the winner can walk away with...some kind of trophy? I can make a nifty trophy sprite or something that the winner can put on the front page of his/her shop and have bragging rights or something.

Okay I think that's the end of my idea dump. I probably am missing stuff and things probably need clarification so post away!

Also once you join the guild I'll promote you to mod position so you can invite related staff to the guild :3

OH WAIT THE PRIZE POOL YEAH
So I'm asking that each shop toss in a minimum of 2 pokemon to it. They can be of any rarity or whatever. I think Extrasensory may toss in about 4-6 ish pokemon. However many pokemon are in here determines how many winners there will be for having the most emblems. Most emblems = first choice + etc.

Also this is strictly only for the shop emblems (not the AR or friendship ones) since AR + friendship have their own prizes. Winners of the AR/friendship ones can still be a winner for the prize pool though as long as they earned a lot of shop emblems.

The events will be completed in this order: AR -> Shop Emblems -> Friendship emblems
You can't win a pokemon from the friendship mixer event like thing if you've already won a pokemon from an A/R AND you got a pick in the prizepool from the shop emblems. So you can only win a max of 2 pokemon from the event. Also, if for some reason the prize pool winner is left to choose a pokeboy when his/her badges are full and there are no other choices left, I can toss in an extra pokemon or something although I don't think that'll happen.

You cannot give emblems away because I'm too lazy to do some sort of exchange thread. And I don't want any begging for other people's emblems.

Phew lots of typing. I hope this isn't too complicated. I think it just sounds slightly harder than it is because I tend to ramble @__@

This kinda seems daunting but with the right planning and stuff I think this event can go very well :3

I hope it's okay to reply in here. If not feel free to remove this. XD

Gonna touch on some of your numbered points.

1. I honestly have no preference on the exact dates of the event. I know you mentioned July as a possible month. July would work perfectly for me. My only current commitments are the TRHQ birthday event in late April/early May and a convention in early September.

2. TRHQ can contribute whatever types of events you guys would like. I'd be happy to run something along the lines of the Jirachi's Wish game that ran during TRHQ's last event. I'll have a similar game going at the upcoming birthday event. It's basically a game of chance where I post randomly in the thread multiple times during the course of the event with a Pokemon NPC and give people a chance at winning multiple prizes. On the topic of mini pet prizes for advertising, I can also offer up TRHQ Pokewalkers.

5. To make sure I'm clear on this, the goal is for people to collect emblems from other shops for their shop, right? If this is the case we'll have to be very very careful about explaining the idea well. I guarantee there's going to be confusion and people assuming they're supposed to be gathering their own shop's emblems.

Overall the event sounds interesting. =3 My best advice is that we just try to keep it as easy to understand as we can. There's some mildly complicated ideas coming up here and I guarantee a lot of Gaians are going to be too lazy to figure out the rules.

Also, if we plan on any themed sales/raffles/whatever and it would help to have TRHQ offering a certain Pokemon that hasn't been made yet I can make it with advanced enough notice. Oh, and if it's possible for me to include some special Rocket IDs in the event instead of just Pokemon that'd be snazzy. I've been playing with the idea of offering some special cosplays at events. ^^

Alliance seems fun xDD

Yeah I've been slightly iffy about the competition but from what I observed in Soq's pokemon event, everyone got split into Rocket/Magma/Aqua/Galactic without any unfriendly team bashing. My high school also has a "prep rally" every quarter where people are divided between different class colors and that turned out slightly more problematic (trying to paint other students with their class colors, accusing the senior class of hacking the system because they have won 90% of the prep rallys, etc) but it was still cool to see people dress in their class colors and everyone got a good lol out of seeing me go to school in a white wig. But the prep rally definitely does not promote school unity as my school claims.
It could be more of a problem because a whole B/C shop can be slightly more personal to a person. Perhaps in the mixer event more points can be awarded to those who talk to people outside of their shop team?

I think I failed to make this clear from my gigantic post and I apologize, I really shouldn't type stuff while writing papers at around 12 AM in the morning. The system is pretty much what you have said. Every emblem counts as a point, you can earn emblems from any shop and they are all worth the same, and the prizepool is one giant prizepool from all of the shops. The team you are in really doesn't matter much except for displaying team spirit and such. I didn't want anyone to have to chose sides because they like one shop's prize more than another shop's.
When the thread is made we should probably make sure it is clear by asking some uninvolved parties to read it to see if they understand well. I'll also probably be on a lot in July on days that I am not going to be volunteering at the hospital and I'll make sure I'm on the first day so if there is possible confusion it will be sorted out.

Lol okay let's just call them badges then...-too lazy to edit stuff though- rofl

1. Okay, I'll wait for other opinions of the date. It is really early to plan but I want to know if there are possibly some preferred dates I can schedule my hospital volunteering days around

5. Um, I explained above. The goal is to collect any and all emblems. So yeah. I am going to have to make sure this is explained very clearly in bold font xD;;

Ahaha lazy gaians. Well, I tend to have a lot of faith in B/Cers and others explaining.

I'm going to weigh in here - the more I think about it, the more I feel uncomfortable with the idea of inter-shop competition. Intra-shop competition is a different thing; you're pledging allegiance to temporary groups that didn't exist before. But with inter-shop competition you're pledging to a shop - a group that was there before and will be after.

I know there are people who are regulars at multiple shops - it'd put them in a tricky position to have to choose Team Extrasensory, Team TRHQ, or Team Pokeboys. And even though consciously they may say 'I know it's just an event' subconsciously, it'll probably have subtle effects even if massive drama fails to erupt.

I dunno. Just thinking about it, as a participant, I wouldn't be too thrilled about it. neutral

I'd much prefer to see events promoting interaction between shops. Say, going over to visit Pokeboys if you usually hang out at Extra, etc. I think that'd be a much more constructive approach and promote a more positive feeling.

I'm totally up for the alliance thing. This could be its first event!

Oh, actually, there should probably be a complimentary Auction/Raffle badge, just one though so it doesn't really make too much of a difference but it'll be rare xD

Just chiming in with a quick design suggestion - how about modeling the badges after those in the games and/or the HG/SS logos? Stylistically - so they look more like real badges.

How about modeling it after the animation for the Extrasensory attack? I could see about whipping a mock-up up if you like.