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That is so good to hear!
Fantastic news! As for creative, well, I have two AARs going on now...
Tbf it is mostly hoi4 at the moment but still, a lot of people tried ckii because of meme videos/absurdist storylines
That is so good to hear!
Thanks.
Was thinking more of a writers challange or something but yeah, I do have AARs to catch up on.
Thanks everyone for voting and a special thanks to @coz1 for both taking on this task and for managing to get the results out so rapidly. Remember we are still waiting for the Q2 ACA results to be announced.
I have a something I have been wondering about posting for a while. I shall do so and see what interest there is.
Maybe writing a scene from another AAR or a crossover with multiple authors? I probably sound like an idiot right now.
Mm...oh that could be good if we can sustain it. Multiple styles and voices, sometimes insane sometimes great plots and characters...
What would the prompt/idea be though?
Genuinely delighted that people seem interested though!
Well, I thought it might be interesting to have one author write from the perspective of a minor character in another's story. The other idea would be to have existing AAR characters meet each other, like say having the top five best characters share a meal. I was thinking something along the lines of this.
https://grrm.livejournal.com/147038.html
If nothing else it would draw attention. People may not want to fill out a ballot but I think they'd tune in to have their favorite characters hang out.
Another idea I had was for authors to actively campaign, like maybe make "adds" for their characters and air "attack ads" about other characters and stories. It would all be tongue in cheek and fun.
Of course, the problem with all these ideas is that they may prove way to much work for the writers in our community, who besides their own stories, have to deal with having this strange thing I lack, a life.
https://grrm.livejournal.com/147038.html
If nothing else it would draw attention. People may not want to fill out a ballot but I think they'd tune in to have their favorite characters hang out.
Another idea I had was for authors to actively campaign, like maybe make "adds" for their characters and air "attack ads" about other characters and stories. It would all be tongue in cheek and fun.
Of course, the problem with all these ideas is that they may prove way to much work for the writers in our community, who besides their own stories, have to deal with having this strange thing I lack, a life.
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I've had an idea of something like that knocking around for a while. It was following a conflict/era through multiple newspaper reports, all from different papers in different countries. Set in Vicki 2, late game when things have gone properly off the rails and you have lots of interesting ideologies and government configurations to play with. It would work something like;
#1 Report from the state run paper in a fascist country A about a Crisis looming, written in a bombastic but not very informative style.
#2 Liberal paper in Neutral country B tries to explain the crisis, but gets distracted by blatantly disliking one side's government.
#3 Socialist paper in Country C has a column denouncing Country A's unprovoked aggression while glossing over country C's actions that may have provoked it.
#4 Underground communist news-sheet from Country A tries to reveal 'the truth' about the crisis but gets stuck in a rabbit hole of trying to make the problem fit with party theory.
#5 Centre-right paper in Country D runs an opinion piece on the escalating crisis that tries to link it to past conflicts but mostly ends up with the author boasting about how great they were in the last war.
Something like that would work as a Shared World with several authors. Game is played to a certain point, everyone interested gets a copy of the save and if they have the time and inclination writes a short pieces and posts it. Then the game is advanced another period (week / month or whatever) and go again.
Could work in something other than Vicki 2 if that would get more writers interested. I think the HOI era is a bit too on rails to work well, but maybe CK2 and competing monastic chronicles and court authors could work if that is the preference?
Part the reason that I held open the vote until I returned from Austin. I knew I'd have the next day off so I was able to get everything counted fairly easily. Plus, I like to get the announcements out there so people can thank their voters and bask in their victories.
Ckii character traits and personalities make the idea a little easier, but vicky ii love and competing propaganda pieces sound great too.
Funnily enough I actually had considered writing a Vicky II AAR based around newspaper barons so this does sound pretty cool.
Funnily enough I actually had considered writing a Vicky II AAR based around newspaper barons so this does sound pretty cool.
The best bits of Vicky stories do tend to be in universe texts.
As I am releasing this year's vote, I had a thought on the top two categories (of course they are all worthy but WritAAR and AAR of the Year are the last ones) - how about in future doing a poll of the top five for these two? All other categories would work as they have thus far, but these would gain the nominations from the process and then compete in a full poll. I don't want to change anything midstream for this year, but looking ahead what do folks think?
If memory serves, didn't we used to do something similar back in the day? I certainly remember a poll being involved last time I was ever anywhere near in contention for writer of the year. Would perhaps hark back more to the OscAAR spirit by having a longest and then a shortlist of nominees. I wouldn't be against its by any means.
I would like that. Have a short list to pull from, easier to get clear winners... I feel like that's also a lot like previous ideas of mine.
If we did it, I'd prefer to keep it public just as it is now. Really no change other than to leave the last two as a poll to follow. Maybe make it a bit more exciting.
It would be a bit more work for the organiser and does risk over-shadowing the Q4 / Q1 ACAs even further. But the ACAs stalled a bit last year, so perhaps that isn't a big problem?
Overall I like the idea, as long as @coz1 doesn't mind the extra work of running a two stage award process. I'd also keep it a public ballot, everyone is already openly voting in the current method so I'm not sure what secrecy would add apart from a bit more work for the poor organiser.
Overall I like the idea, as long as @coz1 doesn't mind the extra work of running a two stage award process. I'd also keep it a public ballot, everyone is already openly voting in the current method so I'm not sure what secrecy would add apart from a bit more work for the poor organiser.
It was more for the suspense factor and as it was going to be done off a short list as a different process. Otherwise, I agree, not sure if the extra effort (for @coz1 and voters) would be worth it? The current preferential system seems very comprehensive.