Basically, the Briscoe 2015 Luck Hunt Challenge would be a score driven contest between voluntary participants that signed up revolving around luck drops from job reports for the specific period of the contest.
My proposal is that the Challenge begin the first day of September.
This would allow plenty of time to clear the current Independence event and for participants to reskill and/or stock up on job buffs.
My proposal is that the Challenge run for a two week period.
Any longer and it starts to wane, participants lose interest, and it becomes too much of a burden for the Host.
So, if it were to begin September 1st, any job report containing a luck drop dated Sept 1 thru Sept 14 would be "scored" and counted in a participant's total or overall score.
Participation in the Challenge is voluntary and thru signing up for it.
The Host might want to cap participation at 25-30 or so toons so as not to be overburdened by checking job report scores, tabulating each participant's overall score, etc.
To justify the awarding of prizes, each participant might pay a entry fee.
This is at the discretion of the Host, but something like $5k to $10k per participant might be a place to start. In the past, when hosted as a player toon, I'd charge an entry fee from a list of resources. Something like 50 coal or 20 lead or 10 stomach meds to offset the cost of prizes being awarded. But I'd be surprised if a Mod Host would have a desire for resource based entry fees. Therefore, a participant might pay a cash based entry fee via bank transfer to the Host.
There would be prizes going to the top overall winners.
My proposal would be a 1:5 or 1:6 prize to participant ratio.
Prizes could consist of named items and/or chests and/or a cash transfer.
My proposal is that if there's 30 participants, award 6 prizes. There would be a Prize List of about 10 items like:
Wild Bill Longley's Revolver
Jesse Chisholm's Horse
Boone's Axe
Glossy Premium Chest
Noble Chest
Fancy Chest
Steel Lined Chest
Bank Transfer of $75k
Bank Transfer of $40k
Bank Transfer of $20k
The overall winner would have his pick of the list. 2nd place would have his pick of the remaining 9 items. 3rd place would have his pick of the remaining 8 items and so on until the 6th place finisher has made his pick. There will be some leftover, unawarded prizes, but at least a "winner" gets to make a choice and his selection.
Scoring reports:
Each participant would have his own thread within the Challenge forum posting his job reports containing luck drops from jobs.
ONLY luck drops of items/gear that CANNOT go into a toons product slot of his inventory would count. So, a walking stick would not count, but a recipe would.
The value of the luck drop(s) would be the item's/gear's purchase price value.
So, say I post a job report and I get luck drops of a Black Cartridge Belt ($4120 purchase price value) along with a Produce Pipe Brush Recipe ($500 purchase price value). My luck drop value for that report would be $4120 + $500 = $4620.
To equalize the playing field for toons of all levels, we would implement the TOON LEVEL DIVIDER into the final score for that specific report. Otherwise, level 120+ toons would crush toons with levels less than 100.
This Divider would remain constant for the duration of the Challenge. If a participant started the Challenge as level 82 but leveled up during it, his Divider would remain constant at 82.
So, the score for that report would be the Total Purchase Price Value of the report divided by the participant's level at the start of the Challenge (in my case, for illustration, 150):
$4620/150 = 30.8 and we'll round up/down to the next whole number so my score for that one, specific job report would be 31.
It would be the summed scores of all the job reports posted for the Challenge period that would be the total, overall score at the end of the Challenge.
Thanks for asking, PJ. I'll let you digest this and be ready for a Q&A. I've tried to outline guidelines, parameters, and give examples while referencing specifics. I've done exactly this on Briscoe twice before, to much success with those that participated, but the cost/reward along with forum hijackings and a few toons getting butthurt over it is not worth the investment. I think it would be much better if a neutral Mod toon host it.
Best regards,