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Meeting #3 (06-13-15)
Topic Started: Jun 13 2015, 10:00 PM (115 Views)
JenJaws
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I was thinking that we could have images in the gallery of game rooms and guest/fun rooms that members are offering for us to use. Any kinds, any themes!

Best Guest/Game Room competition
A lot of members here have some amazing guest rooms or game rooms. If you have one that you think is absolutely fabulous, we can have little meetings in it to attract people. (Meetings as in we just meet there, chat about whatever, and hang out-keeping it non-MIM related. ) The amount of people we have could help draw attention to some amazing guest rooms, that may otherwise go unnoticed. For example, Ace has a fantastic guest room, that I really think she could win it, if the room got noticed by staff. We could support different or multiple people every month! Opinions?

Kindness Competition
We mentioned having a MyVMK kindness competition previously. I think it may be a good time to get that in motion. One thought I had was posting a link for a google survey, and asking MyVMK members to nominate people they think have been exceptional this month… Maybe friendly in Pirates, helpful with newbies, etc. I was thinking that the form could have 3 columns- User nominated, User nominating, and why that user is being nominated. I considered having it anonymous, but I don’t want people to nominate themselves, and I also considered not opening it to MyVMK members, but I don’t want the community to feel like we are choosing superior people or our friends. If they are nominated, it is a fairer chance for everyone, including those who may be playing at hours we aren’t online. Maybe this prize could be a bigger item, like a magic of some kind?

Team Games
It was mentioned a couple times about having some team or relay games, to encourage people to work together. Ace has a good one that’s pirate themed, and I have a restaurant themed one that can be used as well. Any other game ideas are still welcome!

Newbie Help Session
This has also been mentioned a few times before! Does anyone have a nice room for it? I have my little hang out room, but not much else. Does anyone else have a room or rooms you can volunteer for a newbie help session? This may be a nice on-the-fly event if 3 or 4 members happen to be online at the same time. What do ya think? We can still always meet up in the Esplanade as well.

Our Second Event
This event was definitely a success! There weren’t a ton of people there, but I think the ones that were had fun! Four games were played! Thanks for everyone that helped make this so much fun!

Our Third/Fourth Event
http://doodle.com/azd3bgvhqqbci9hi
We may be able to plan two events if you all reply to the Doodle in your PM. I’m kinda disappointed with the lack of responses in the Doodle polls. It helps to know if we’ll have enough members to host an event or not. Also, suggestions for the Third or Fourth event are welcome! I was thinking a newbie session and a game, depending on how many people we can get for times.
http://doodle.com/azd3bgvhqqbci9hi

Prizes
So I supplied all of the prizes for the first contest, which is perfectly fine with me. I have a small storage of pirate related pins that I can use for prizes for now, but I may not be able to afford a bigger prize alone. I was thinking some of us could potentially pool resources to get an extra magic from the sale for a bigger prize or something. I don't want any of you to be missing the funds for something else this month that you'd like, so this is by no means required. Just a suggestion.

Uniforms
A uniform poll is in the works, so hang in there. :)

What do you think of all of these ideas? Anything you wanted to discuss that I missed?
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PuffTheMagicDragon
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1. Gallery-Database:
When you say in the "gallery of game rooms" do you mean those pictures you can post on the walls of qguest rooms?

2. Best Guest/Game Room competition:
I think meeting in rooms that people are building for the room competitions is a fantastic idea! I love it. Attracting people to "bump" your room? Awesome! (I hope you know that my rooms won't be included in this. I am by no means a master! lol)

3. Kindness Competition:
I like this, but I'm afraid of this. People don't seem to be receiving us very well just yet, and I think there are so many ways to twist the meaning/purpose of such a competition. We <i>must</i> tread lightly.

4. Team Games:
There's always the option of classic spinner games. Ya know? They're easy to plan and put together.

5. Newbie Help Session:
I like the idea of building rooms to welcome new members. Perhaps party-themed? Anything would work. Anything that would make them go, "WOW, look what they can do with their stuff. This game seems pretty cool," will be perfect. I, for one, don't have a room like that. I'm only a level 1 builder.

6. Our Second Event:
It was pretty fun! I will say, however, that the questions we all came up with seemed to but a bit too hard!! We may need to stick to more... easy stuff. "Who is Ariel's best friend?" That type of stuff. Easy Peezy Lemon Squeezy

7. Our Third/Fourth Event:
We really need to get serious about these Doodles! They are so helpful when planning events, and events are SO important for this group! The more support we have, the better!
I like the idea of doing 2 events per week, even if one of them is just a "Come hang out a chit chat with us," type of thing.
@Jen, I'll do my Doodle tomorrow night after I get my work schedule for the week.

8. Prizes:
Because of a generous person giving away their things, I now have a ton more of the pirates pins to give away! Take them! Take them all! I do like the idea of giving out some bigger prizes, but maybe things like the Pirate Bandana or whatever hat is being sold at the time would be better (at least until we grow in funds). They're cheaper, and people like hats!

9. Uniforms:
Just throwing out there that the Sorceror Mickey Hat/Lanyard Shirt combo looked AWESOME the other night. I was really loving it. Going through other rooms afterward, I could always spot Ace, Jen, and others because we were actually the ONLY ones wearing that hat. I think that will be much more distinguishing (and affordable) than Mickey Ears.

10. We need to put some of our ideas for getting some less-active members to check the forums more often. I know we said some things like contests and such before. I think that has a lot to do with how the Doodles aren't being filled out and others aren't coming to the events. I haven't even met some of you guys in-game yet! :( so sad


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JenJaws
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Clarifying #1: What I mean by the Gallery-Database is that we can just have pictures of the rooms that people are volunteering for us to host events in, so we can compare games and room ideas, and pick rooms for our events.
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SundanceCody
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Gallery-Database:
I think this is a great idea! It's one thing to post in one of the forums on here, "I have a realy cool guest room that we can use," but by dedicating a forum to that specifically and encouraging folks to include a screenshot of the room in all its splendor would make it really easy for event planners to decide what might work best for whatever event they happen to be planning.

Best Guest/Game Room Competition:
I actually think that this would be a great way to show just how much we care about MyVMK as a community! MIM is very important, but keeping some things non-MIM related could be a great way to attract more players. Using this as a way to "bump" rooms created by folks who just happen to be a part of MIM? -- GOLD! If those members happen to win Best Guest/Game Room, that's the best advertising there is!

Kindness Competition:
I'm in agreement with Puff on this one. I love the idea, but we need to be absolutely certain that non-MIM players would have no way of being about to claim that we in any way have "rigged" the competition and chosen winners based on our own designs. You're absolutely right about wanting to avoid making it an anonymous nomination, Jen, but I can still see it being difficult for some to see beyond the possibility of a player nominating him/herself under an alias. I'm sure there's a way that we can make it work, but I'm at a loss myself. You guys are a pretty creative lot though, so if it is possible, I'm betting someone here will figure it out ;) .

Team Games:
I'm hoping this will be an area where MIM will excel! Teamwork encourages community, which is what we're all about! :D

Newbie Help Session:
I think this should ultimately be something that includes both purpose-built guest rooms and impromptu public room assistance. When a new player logs on for the first time, their character automatically joins the Esplanade, so that room works very well for the purposes for meeting and assisting new players. I think a purpose-built guest room would also be great simply because many new players may want to start visiting member-created rooms but may not know where to start. Having a room with a title that attracts new players can give them an easy way to get into visiting other member-created rooms. I like Puff's idea of using such rooms to showcase what can be accomplished with the furnishings available in MyVMK. I'd only add that we should probably stick with the "less is more" approach. A talented builder can put together a pretty awesome room that's still fairly simple in terms of how much went into it. I wouldn't want to overload a new player with a room that takes forever to load, nor would I want to overwhelm a new player with a room that looks "exclusive". Something that might require some effort to obtain the necessary building blocks but is more or less easily attainable might give a new player an idea of what he/she would like to shoot for ;) .

Our Second Event:
I heard that y'all had a blast at the second event! I wish I could have been there :( .
@Puff, I'll admit that I'm a pretty hardcore Disney fan, so when I think "Disney Trivia", I think of hard stuff. As Jen points out though, any given representative sample of MyVMK players will have a tough time with more difficult trivia. I'll try to keep that in mind myself going forward, but I think we can still throw in the occassional "tough" question just to encourage players to look at their favorite Disney movies/attractions/characters/etc. a little more closely ;) .

Our Third/Forth Event:
DO THE DOODLES! Okay that sounded weird! Seriously though, we're all on different timetables, and the Doodles are a great way to figure out what times work well for planning events such that as many of us can attend as possible.

Prizes:
I have no idea what people want in terms of prizes, and I've never been good at going to trade rooms and the like in search of good deals. That said, y'all seem to be pretty in tune with what players want, so if you ever need some additional credits, hit me up! As Jen alluded to, there's always something cool hitting the shops, and like her, I'd hate for anyone that's into collecting to miss out. I'm good enough at HM to build credits for myself pretty fast, so I generally have credits to spare ;) .

Uniforms:
I do like polls :D .
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