And the winner is....

[subplotkudzu]

Star Trek, by a nose! Actually., by a half point because Evynrude doesn't like integers. The final scoring was

Game                  An Invitation  ARCHIVE    USS Carter      Monarch
evynrude             3.5               2.5               3.5                 3
kriz1818               3                  3                  3                   2
ashacat               3                  3                  3                    4
Jason                       3                 2                  3                    4
netcurmudgeon   1                  3                  4                   3
Total                        13.5             13.5              16.5              16

Even if you remove Jason, who might only be part time, the USS Carter still wins, this time by more points, though Monarch did have more people giving it their highest rating. Now that it's over, I'd love to see some discussion as to why you voted the way you did.

In my case, Trek and Monarch were the easiest things for me to run - Trek lends itself to short bursts of prep work and has few ongoing threads to juggle, Monarch would have been the easiest mechanically. Expect to see it as an option again; unlike other strange settings this one apparently caught your interest and I'm not giving it up without a fight.

I expect the point system will get modified next time to prevent the clustering of scores that have turned up. Rather than giving a limited number of points (which runs the risk of acceptable games being blackballed to prop up multiple preferred ones), I might limit everyone to a single 4 and a single 3. With a longer list (since I usually provide 6 games) it should break up the field a little bit. It's gratifying to see that I've learned to craft game ideas that are all appealing, but the ego boost doesn't make the selection process easier.

Expect several Trek related posts in the next couple months, especially questionnaires designed to integrate Evynrude into the existing crew relationships.

Comments

Re: Voting

[brianrogers.livejournal.com]

So after saying that you trusted me in my ability to get the group into genres and settings they weren't familiar with you though that I was going to subject this group of players to 6 hours of pouring over blueprints and timetables for every other month?

You can see how that doesn't quite follow, right?

Re: Voting

[netcurmudgeon.livejournal.com]

What influences someone to extend a grant of trust in one case but not another? With the prospectus it's the totality of the writeup; one game isn't all that interesting and the structure sounds iffy, another sounds weird but kind of fun ... which one gets the benefit of the doubt? Mind, that in this context are two other games with either very high appeal or a good interest factor and a well-known structure. And, maybe in the end, it was just the weakest writeup of the four ... in this reader's eyes.

Re: Voting

[brianrogers.livejournal.com]

Oh, if you didn't think the MI-Falk idea sounded interesting that's a fine reason it give it a 1. I have no problem with you seeing it as the weakest of the four. I'm just questioning why you thought I would subject the group to 6 hours of tedious planning every other month. Hopefully you realize that would be out of character.

In any event, have fun in India!

Re: Voting

[netcurmudgeon.livejournal.com]

I think you may be digging too deeply into a decision process that took five minutes to make in total (and may well not have an internally consistent logic, as preference in humans is not a logical process). We've already spent 2 - 4 times longer discussing it than I took doing it originally! :-)