Pro Silentium Suggestions

By Bassism on 12/09/2008

Seeing as my topic in the suggestions forums got ignored by Guardians and Council alike, one response to being shown the topic being "wnna sex?", I decided to make a post in a more active forum to try and determine the opinion and effect Pro Silentium has on the clan.

I believe Pro Silentium is the most effective Combat training incentive save BHing people Sara sets for getting a combat level. It is not compulsory, allows people with unpredictable/lower activity to still gain event attendance and combat levels, and retain their membership in this clan.

Some people seem to believe that Pro Silentium has a detrimental effect on the Community, and makes the clan more war orientated than it already is.

Suggestion 1.
Keep the Pro Silentium system as it is, just repeat it continuously with the same skill combinations, tiers and rewards.

Suggestion 2.
There are 24 skills in RS, 11 of which are combat orientated (If you include slayer and agility), so you could combine this with Skill of the week and have 1 combat and 1 non combat skill running at the same time over a month, making the entirety of Pro Silentium last 1 year.

Suggestion 3.
Do the same as above, but lower the length of each segment to 2 weeks instead of a month, this would allow an average of 1 week per skill, and make Pro Silentium continue for six months.

Suggestion 4.
None of the above, do not repeat Pro Silentium

May I point you in the direction of my post in general matters:

http://www.wildernessguardians.com/forum/i...?showtopic=5918

Please vote in both polls as I want a fair image of what most of the clan would like.

Cheers

~Owen

By Troll84 on 12/09/2008

Repeating Pro Silentium IMO is not a good idea. It would mean it would loose all originality it ever had which made it something special to train for. Having like one or MAYBE two Pro Silentium-Type things per year is more than enough.

If it's a regular thing, people may not be as inclined to train for it.

~Mugger84

By Bassism on 12/09/2008

QUOTE (Mugger84 @ September 12, 2008 09:13 pm)

You could say the same for skill of the week.

I'm sure that's been going on for quite a while now. And you have to SIGN UP for that. Pro Silentium you can do as little or as much as you want depending on how much time you have, and event attendance you want.

By Elyxiatic on 12/09/2008

QUOTE (Mugger84 @ September 13, 2008 07:13 am)

I'm with him.

By Eregion2 on 12/09/2008

I like suggestion two. If we're handling that many skills it won't get redundant.

By Elyxiatic on 12/09/2008

QUOTE (Bassism @ September 13, 2008 07:14 am)

The good thing about skill of the week is you only sign up for it if you want to.
Pro Silentium everybody is inclined to train.
Some people don't like this pressure.

You can't really say that by introducing ps we're not encouraging people to train. If ps was made an ongoing thing, it would lose originality, and people just wouldn't care much for it. As it is skill of the week may get about 20 sign ups per week, and those are for the people who want to train that skill in the week. There's no pressure to train it, if you don't want to.

By incorporating the whole clan into an ongoing training scheme it really is encouraging them to train all the time, however I think it is restrictive in the way that certain skills have to be done each month. I saw some people train different skills and get a lot of xp (5 mil+) when the month for that wasn't up.

I would rather re-introduce a combat academy, however if I remember this correctly this was removed because people in the end just didn't train. I could forsee this for ps, where only a small handful may train per month. As it is, I have my own goals in rs and I don't see myself fitting into any training scheme that wg wants me to train in. It'll be maxed combat eventually, but I don't think I'd like the pressure of training set skills per month.

By Sithofwookie on 12/09/2008

i liked having that skill war with tdm, that made me train alot but maybe would could have it cmb wise tho idk just an idea

By George on 13/09/2008

After 2 months of Pro Silentium, WG and staff had essentially lost the will to live.
Why do you think it was immediately terminated for the summer?

Doing it for a year would make all of us, especially the staff who have to update their exps every week (believe me it takes ages) kill themselves.

By Karel Dude on 13/09/2008

Personally when I did it, I didn't mind. It didn't take that long and you could multitask.

Anyways, its your job, and stopping PS because a few people are too lazy won't be a valid reason

By Ragingwealth on 13/09/2008

I think the best course of action to do is, take a 3-4 month break after it ends then bring it back.

By George on 13/09/2008

QUOTE (Karel Dude @ September 13, 2008 08:30 am)

Personally when I did it, I didn't mind. It didn't take that long and you could multitask.

Anyways, its your job, and stopping PS because a few people are too lazy won't be a valid reason

It's not about too lazy.
It's about the amount of time it would take every week for a year.
Thats 52 weeks of updating the exps.

In the time we could take doing that we could like do so much more

By Eregion2 on 13/09/2008

You update as you go? I just figured you got starting and ending stats.

By Bassism on 13/09/2008

QUOTE (Eregion2 @ September 13, 2008 03:56 pm)

You update as you go? I just figured you got starting and ending stats.

I don't really see the point in updating as they go, people know their starting stats, and can see their own stats any time, if they're really bothered about other peoples stats then they can use the !<skill> option on IRC, or look them up on the Runescape website.

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