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If they've fallen into despair they'll be all cracking and stuff, you gotta engage them before they go full phantom.

True, true. Maybe lanislori should also try becoming a Wizard/Beast/Mage?

Then again, her motivational skills must be put to the test first!

I dunno, mage was pretty awful.

Also i wanna make an Engage, Please, joke.

That, or any of OOO's combo jokes will do.. :p

If they've fallen into despair they'll be all cracking and stuff, you gotta engage them before they go full phantom.

Alright, lanislori I have your tests ready.

Test 1:

The first is the second when you are counting. The second is frozen when absolute. The third enables all one's senses, and the last dances like a spider.

What is the four-digit code?


Test 2:

What do you say to somebody who has fallen into despair? How do you motivate them?


Test 3:

You are a manager in an office. Your team consists of a pessimist, an apathetic, a slacker, a guy who has inferiority complex, and their lead has superiority complex and is a terrible leader.

You have a project that's due in one week, and everything is not falling into place properly: the pessimist breaking down believing you will never finish the project on at the given time, both the apathetic took a day off, the slacker is planning to take a whole week off to avoid the project, the guy who has inferiority complex can only accomplish so much, and their lead doesn't give a crap about the others and proceeds to do things out of context.

How would you motivate the entire team to get their heads together and get this project going? List down the possible steps you would take for each one.

Someone's been playing remember me...

Also i wanna make an Engage, Please, joke.

Can east bay people who don't mind commuting join D:?

I wish they could have run 2 Speed Dating events side-by-side at the same time, because I was a bummer to come 15-20 min. early either 2 or 3 times (I can't remember if I made it one of the times,) and find all the spot taken more than an hour before for guys.

Speed dating is still an evolving event, although one does need to consider space allocation, popularity and staffing limitations.

Have an supreme/elite/presidential/idontcarewhatyoucallit  package/deal.  Example: a 100 badge. Get it in the mail JUST ONCE. Prior to fanime, like one day. I do not mind paying more to not fkn wait in line.

I would give you $100 for a no waiting in line badge. :-)

Most would pay up to 70 for a no wait badge, doesn't mean they'd do it.

hire more staff.

you mean hire staff? you can't "hire more staff" if you never hired staff in the first place..  :o

lol.. there's Fanime merch.. hmm.. custom badges... i dunno.. but that gives me another idea though... goes along the lines of a vip/premier badging system.. *shrug*..

>0 = more

...maybe I will submit this in a feedback form after all.... >_>

Heh, kickstarter was mentioned, not sure how this will go with our finance and PR peeps:P But yah the form is the best place.

Bro-Tip:

Sell hats!

and by that i mean custom badges. Charge like 5-10$ more for a custom badge (subject to aproval) make dollars, hire more staff.

Picking the hottest person in the room but with NOTHING in common with you is not suggested lol.

Hot people need love too :[

I for one do support Fanime in there choice not to mail out badges. For one, I don't trust people in the bay area, I'm 90% sure they would try and make counterfeits or get another free by saying they lost the first one. Anyone who knows about professional printing knows just how cheap the material is. So no on the mail thing.

This argument doesn't really hold weight considering how many people trade badges and sneak into things anyway.

Besides, with the amount of people who would be willing to pay up to 1/3rd more of the cost of the badges to simply have it mailed to them and not have to pick it up would more than likely negate however many people decided to counterfeit or claim duplicates.

From my experience Fanime is where i meet people that i chat with online and then we realize that we don't work in reality and then we never talk again.

It's probably me.

^ My question is that the registration system is same as this year because some people already paid.
If there was something drastically different to registration system, pre-regging shouldn't have been opened yet, something new is in place, or existing registration data is transferrable to a new system.

My best guess is that there won't be a new registration system (like mailings or barcodes etc...), but rather new registration procedures.
I'm hopeful I'm wrong, because I'd like to see new everything.

Yeah, fanime kind of needs to make a change and wrestle with the lawyers.

intoxicated people have been the most problematic thing staff has had to encounter over the entire con's history.. (minus registration lines.. sure).. and regardless of Fanime being a "dry convention".. countless people continue to ignore that..

Probably because there is a bar in the first floor of both hotel rooms.

Eric, thank you for posting the explanation and reasons.  I'm still not convinced that this snafu wasn't preventable, but it's a great step that staff is responding to our concerns.

If only minors would be required to reg on site, would it not be awesome motivation for them to lie? but yah, we need info for everyone, not just minors. The number of minors was the impetus for such a requirement, but not the only group required to verify ID. I also think tracking is a great idea. I'm not sure how it would scale to a few thousand badges but it will surely be something we will look into if we mail.

If they lied wouldn't you guys not be held legally responsible?

I hate to say it but maybe all those threads should have been moved to a sub-forum, locked, and then create this generic thread? Because now we have a bunch of crazy fans talking to themselves... >.>;

I completely agree. This constant cluster-fuck of forums being locked, unlocked, moved, deleted, moved again then combined and finally unlocked has created a mess. Much like how the con itself felt.

Zing

Can't because it needs to be made sure you get yours in your hands. Hence why ID is checked to get your badge. This has been a recurring suggestion since prior years. I'm witness to this.

I think at this point what fanime just needs to do is get whoever their lawyer is to come out and tell us the logistics of everything, because we are basically to the point that something needs to change to the degree of either mailing out the badges, making them easier to distribute, or quadrupling the registration staff.

Of note, 7 hours in line has a minimum wage opportunity cost of 56 dollars before taxes. Many working adults would gladly pay 20$ not to waste their time.

Could the issue with mailing out badges to minors be averted by only mailing out badges to people of age, and making minors pick theirs up in person? Even if only half of the people who were of age opted to have theirs mailed, that would still be a lot of people removed from the line.

I think that their concerns are both with emergency contacts and minors getting ahold of badges without parental consent.

I just wonder why PAX can mail out badges without names to people of all ages and even have similar child badges as Fanime (although theirs only go up to 6 years old) and how they don't have any issues with it.

Mailing badges – There are four issues: 1) Minors – We need to have contact information and do some ID verification because of the number of minors we have at con.

Are the badges that minors purchase different from the badges that adults purchase?

yup. lol... well at least the child ones anyway..

what's the age range on child badges anyway?

Mailing badges – There are four issues: 1) Minors – We need to have contact information and do some ID verification because of the number of minors we have at con.

Are the badges that minors purchase different from the badges that adults purchase?