TASKs

[Shendemiar]

TASKs are issues that should be dealt with. Think of them as exams. We provide some goal or piece of information, and see how you decide to act upon it.

One of the best ways to see what material people are made of is just to see them act on their own. For that reason there may give very little (or not at all) details.

Some other TASKs may have very specific instructions.

Most important part of this TASK system is that to communicate only via this forum with posts when TASKs business involved. No forum or ingame messages are allowed when it comes to accomplishing TASKs. That way we can see who is active and smart, who is reliable and who is inventive and so on.

EXAMPLE
I set a task for the regular KoMers to accomplish.

QUESTION

Are the tasks that you give to KoM intended for them to solve and work out on thier own. Should we help them with thier tasks?

ANSWER
Yes, the idea is to them by themselves to figure out what to do. Anyone who can do the right things (whatever that may be) without someone telling to do so is valuable.







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[Shendemiar]

fingal said:

Having a proving ground for players before they are moved on allows filtering and testing of supplicants. If we don't see honest to goodness activity, loyalty and involvement then we can show them the door.

[Cesium]

Are all the KoMer's even signed up for this forum? The only guy I've seen around is Fingal, which is a little disappointing. (not Fingal, but the lack of chatty KoMers)

[Shendemiar]

No, none of them yet, but thats ok.

[Fingal]

They only just got the instruction to join... We needed to establish the board and the terms of reference first.

[Shendemiar]

fingal said:

They only just got the instruction to join... We needed to establish the board and the terms of reference first.

Part of the process is explained in the public part... thats where anyone joining will end up at first.

roope.proboards26.com/index.cgi?board=inselkampfpublicissues&action=display&thread=1184533094

[Harlequin]

shendemiar said:

I think one of the best ways to see what material people are made of is just to see them act on their own.

I set a task for the regular KoMers to accomplish. Part of the process is to communicate only via this forum in posts. No forum or ingame messages. That way we can see who is active and smart, who is reliable and who is inventive and so on.

If people agree on this i think we could make it official policy.

I think it's a really good idea.

[AeroS]

After viewing the spy reports on those islands, I have had to bite my tongue several times.

Do we offer observations or let KoM handle it?

[Shendemiar]

Initial post updated.

[digital]

I've posted a reminder on the internal forum about it.

[kelksta]

Hi everyone! Sorry for the extreme lack of inactivity on the externals here! Email problems and all that jazz :-(

Sounds like fun this :-D

[Cait_Sith]

Seems a good idea. Even if it doesn't quite work out as planned, it might add a little fun to the game. Something other than "Build...Next isle...Repeat"

I'd be up for it

I'm just wondering what kind of thing the TASKs might consist of. I remember being tested before I became an Admiral on .co.uk I'm sure it was. Basically, I had to time something like 20 attacks to hit one of the admins' new isles within five minutes of each other. Might of been then though, with five minutes either way...

[Shendemiar]

TASKs can be just about anything. Even just beeing here is kind of an task. I would say we emphasize communication and initiative but any good traits really.

[Cait_Sith]

So it's basically a giant mind game? ;D

[kelksta]

lol, yeh thats what it sounds like to me Or maybe Shendemiar is raising a set of players who play identically to him? ;D