Forum:House Points Game Mechanics Need to Be Reworked

With September 15th, the starting date of the second round of the House Points Game, drawing near, we really need to rework the game mechanics, in order to address all of the issues which came up last time around:


 * Points were given out too often and too arbitrarily. I still think Prefects should ultimately be allowed to give out points at their own discretion, but we need to be a lot more selective about what kinds of contributions earn points, and have stricter guidelines about the number of points which these contributions earn.


 * The organization of team efforts wasn't as effective as it could have been last round. I think this was because organization was left entirely to Prefects, who, like myself, had trouble balancing team leadership with other things that needed doing on-wiki. I think we need to consider ways to more effectively organize team collaboration (like wiki-projects or common goals of some sort).


 * There was too much focus on the quantity of contributions rather than the quality of contributions.


 * The "Mentor" system was a convoluted way of getting Hufflepuff into the game and probably isn't necessary.

I worked out the original game mechanics on my own. I think, this time around, more than one person needs to help work out the mechanics. I'm also going away from the 8th to the 11th and may not have time to get the game running again. &#x2605; S t a r s t u f f (Owl me!) 13:43, 28 August 2009 (UTC)