Robert Can't
Éponine
Respice et Prospice: A Collegiate University IOT
In the fictional town of Bedcaster in Westmorland the Bedcaster University is located. In this game players manage various colleges within the Collegiate system of Bedcaster University. They have to manage finances, attract students, ensure a good student quality of life, excel in sports, and of course do that academic success thing.
Bedcaster is a small city with a large river running through it. The river is the river Kent and each year we have a boat race with Kendal College boat club.
Sign Ups:
Required informations is as follows
Name: Often University colleges are named after famous people from the area, Saints or things like Kings and Queens. Examples
Head: Name the head of your college you might also want to mention a bit about them as this is essentially your character for the game.
College Crest: All colleges have crests. If you don't have a coat of arms you like, draw one on paint with a mouse.
College Motto: Every college needs a motto, though they don't necessarily have to be in Latin, they often are.
College Value: Pick one, see later for the options. This will affect the sorts of people that make up your student population.
Bar Name: Every college has a bar where the students can drink and socialise. Name your bar!
Genders: Pick from either All-Female, All-Male and Mixed.
Gowned: Pick from gowned weekly formals or non-gowned monthly formals.
Spending: Each College has 5 points to spend on either age or facilities, see later
Description: Tell us in words about your college, what is it like?
History: A brief history of the college, maybe wait on this if you want to be an Ancient or Victorian College as those require GM approval.
Layout: If you want to specify something about your colleges layout on the map put that here.
Each college has 5 spending points at the start of the game. These can be spent on Age or on Facilities. Note that if you pick the Age of Victorian, Red Brick or Ancient there is a 4/8/2 limit on numbers. So If you pick the two oldest you will require GM confirmation before it is official.
Facilities:
Library: Increases the potential of your students and their satisfaction. It offers a place to study and a wealth of books to choose from.
Great Hall: A grand dining area. Not a simple refectory but a great hall filled with portraits of previous masters and the perfect location to host the best formals.
Boathouse: Really a staple of Collegiate University life. How else will your college win the boat race?
Sports Complex: Elite Sportsmen make very rich and grateful Alumni. Also its always good to see ones college at the top of the sporting ranks.
Lecture Spaces: Conferences are a good source of income for a college, so being able to host them is just wonderful. Its also good for the students.
Extra Accommodation: MORE! The more students the more money we make and the better our college becomes! Who could argue with that?
Gardens: Somewhere beautiful to sit and read or revise as nobody really has time to read for pleasure do they?
Chapel: The centre of the College's spiritual life. Which is a key think in any self respecting college.
Wine Cellar: Formals are made better when there is huge amounts of wine only a windy stone corridor away.
State of the Art Computer Suite: Technology makes the world go round, and so does the money that this facility could provide us with in the future when our student are the best programmers in the University.
Family Accommodation: Postgraduates like Family Accommodation it means they can bring their annoying children and demanding spouse to university with them. Luck for us too - more people to charge for rent.
Architect's Touch: Maybe the architect who designed the college was high at the time, maybe he was just mad. Whatever it is it gives us one of the most unique college looks around.
Performance venue: Maybe its a giant stage, maybe its a concert area. Whatever it is it makes us look good when visiting artists choose our college to perform. Also it lets the student rabble put on the odd show now and again.
Massive JCR: Sometimes it is good to let the students have their way. Sometimes you get to the top of the collegiate pile by having the biggest and the best JCR making us the college with the most societies, the largest bureaucracy and the most active student community.
Ages
5 - Ancient: Free Chapel, Boathouse, Library, Great Hall, Wine Cellar and Garden.
4 - Victorian: Free Chapel, Boathouse and Library. May choose between a free Great Hall, Garden or Wine Cellar
3 - Red Brick: Free Chapel, Boathouse and Library.
0 - Modern
Spoiler descriptions of ages :
College Values
Eadem mutata resurgo: You are dedicated to academic excellence, and of course excellence in as much else as you can be
Non nobis solum: An emphasis on traditional practices and the integrity of men makes this college what it is. Must be Gowned.
Aime le meilleur: Big and brilliant, the everyman's college. A wonderful sense of community where all are welcome. College may not be gowned.
Non vestra sed vos: A tight knit small community where all are welcomed. There are likely to be more Bursaries. This college may not be younger than Red Brick, this college may not have Extra Accommodation.
Fides nostra victoria: A college with a more religious community feel to it. Must have a chapel.
Vel Primus Vel Cum Primis: The arrogant college that absolutely everybody hates. Of course those in it believe that all the hatred really come from a root jealousy and you know what, that might not be a wrong assumption to make. Must be Gowned.
The Game
Each year is divided into 4 turns: Michaelmas, Epiphany, Easter and Summer. Each one corresponds to a term apart from summer which is the break between Easter and Michaelmas. Each year will last from 1-2 weeks real with each turn being a few days.
The Budget
There are 4 main ways a college gains income
1) University Budget: granted at the start of each academic year
2) Accommodation Costs: Taken from the students once each term
3) Alumni Donations: Given to you by Alumni whenever they feel generous
4) Conference fees: Gained from holding conferences
There are 4 main expenses too
1) Maintenance: Maintaining stuff, taken away from you each term
2) Grants, bursaries, and Scholarships: allowing the poor to grace our mighty institution and the intelligent to afford more alcohol.
3) Events: Paying for freshers' week is serious business
4) Expansion: Building new stuff
Colleges can set Accommodation costs as well as the amount that goes to GB&S and along with Maintenance these things are done automatically each turn. The budget from the central university is handed out each year and is subject to the college's performance in the last year. You can also make applications for more money in order to be able to afford new facilities.
Expansion: The first stage of expansion is to pay a surveyor/architect/guy to give you a quote on how much it is going to cost. After that materials workforce and so on must be paid for until the construction is complete.
The Reports
The turn updates, here called reports are split into 2 categories. Quarterly and Annual. The Quarterly reports come at the end of Michaelmas, Epiphany and Easter Terms and the Annual report comes after the summer break.
The 3 Quarterly reports are called Christmas (End of Michaelmas), Easter (End of Epiphany) and June (end of Easter). The Quarterly report gives a financial overview of the college in that term, how much has been made from accommodation and such. Whereas the annual report also gives academic achievement and student satisfaction scores. The June report also details things passed on to the colleges from the AGMs of the Student bodies especially the JCR and MCR also in the end of June report are the Conferences looking for hosts. Colleges can compete to try and get the Conference to take place in their college as it will earn extra income in the summer term. The end of Epiphany report also gives academic performance in the collections exams.
In short
Annual Report: College finances, University Budget, Induction numbers, Student satisfaction and academic performance
Christmas Report: College finance
Easter Report: College Finance, Collections Results, and Conference Possibilities
June Report: College Finance, Exam Results
Glossary:
Under Construction
Spoiler :
Rules will be expanded on and made clearer as time goes on. Any questions ask and I will put it in the glossary. Sign up stage ends in 2 weeks.
If you want to have some Student/staff characters then that's fine and you can post stories assuming that it is still pre-start of the university year.
Please Remember what a college is, a college is not a department. Also remember the drinking age is much lower in the UK than in America.
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