COTE Poll #4 - Team Choice

[yahzuk]

Very interesting to see some of the early responses on the other polls!

Some of the changes I have planned for next time make it desirable to balance the number of "people" on each team, instead of using the clan factors as in the current game. There are numerous ways to do this, but one very important underlying question - should players be allowed to choose their own teams, or should teams be assigned?

Let Everyone choose their own team. A player who wants to play a domination style game is going to do so no matter what team they are assigned to, so we might as well let them play for the team that makes them happy! Balance less popular teams by giving players multiple signups if necessary.

Have Yahzuk assign everyone's teams. Nobody gets to choose is just as fair as everyone gets to choose! It's time to force people outside their comfort zones and make them try a different style of play.

How about a little of both? Not a joke actually, I know exactly how I would accomplish this, but I'm not telling you!

 

[DefoesRightBoot]

I think a little of both - in an ideal world allowing everyone to choose their own clan would be great, but it does risk some clans overpowering the others through sheer weight of numbers.

I assume your ideas of 'a little of both' are along the lines of the suggestions I posted whilst Daimyo of Osaka :

- Allow future players to choose whichever clan they want
- Allow future players to choose whichever clan they want as long as that clan does not currently account for 40% or more of the current players (active and waiting list)
- Future players to be allocated to the least populous clan.
- Future players to be allocated to the least populous clan if that clan accounts for 15% or less of the current players (active and waiting list) - otherwise they may choose any clan.

If the Oni had allowed this vote to happen, I'd have voted for either the second or fourth option, perhaps with a little tweaking of the percentages involved.

 

[LegionSteve]

Voted for 'Both' just because I am curious to see what you come up with

 

[filli_noctus]

I think everyone whould be allowed to choose their own team, but to prevent a single team gaining a game advantage from a numerical advantage each team gets a single vote in all decisions, but that vote is decided by a ballot of the team members eligible to participate in making that decision. Ties within teams go to whoever has the most influence and ties between teams have the yahzuk make the final decision. If it's on a national scale then city weighting will come in as well.

Example:
Kyoto has just finished a building.
All the clans are represented. The kagaku unanimously want a library, two of the three bunka (with a combined influence of 60% of the total bunka influence) want a monastery, the other one wants a monument and the gaiko unanimously want a market. The Shihai however are split, two want to build a swordsman (Their combined influence is 50% of the shihai total) the other wants a library to get to longswordsmen quicker. The shihai vote goes to the library as the highest influence individual went for library. Kyoto starts on a library.
If however the shihai had voted for a swordsman then yahzuk would choose the production from the four options chosen by the clans.

 

[Sparthage]

I think everyone whould be allowed to choose their own team, but to prevent a single team gaining a game advantage from a numerical advantage each team gets a single vote in all decisions, but that vote is decided by a ballot of the team members eligible to participate in making that decision. Ties within teams go to whoever has the most influence and ties between teams have the yahzuk make the final decision. If it's on a national scale then city weighting will come in as well.

Example:
Kyoto has just finished a building.
All the clans are represented. The kagaku unanimously want a library, two of the three bunka (with a combined influence of 60% of the total bunka influence) want a monastery, the other one wants a monument and the gaiko unanimously want a market. The Shihai however are split, two want to build a swordsman (Their combined influence is 50% of the shihai total) the other wants a library to get to longswordsmen quicker. The shihai vote goes to the library as the highest influence individual went for library. Kyoto starts on a library.
If however the shihai had voted for a swordsman then yahzuk would choose the production from the four options chosen by the clans.

I like this system idea as it would give me (1% Influence in Kyoto) at least a say in things (its kind of pointless for me to vote since I have practically no influence).