Furcas
My 10 cents on the FNG/SNG.
Mostly, i think we should consolidate it to a day that works better for others. I myself am often not available on Fridays any longer and it seems most are in the same boat. Perhaps a shift to Saturday might be in order? (Non bias there, as i will be able to make either in the near future once more!).
Rusty Bucket's active member count is fairly low, and stagnant (exception of a couple @Furcas has in). This leaves us with a smaller pool of people whom are between other groups, and IRL situations.
The common point I've been able to gather is that most of the time whats chosen isn't of interest. Everyone's different though so that depends who's being asked after what. With that in mind, i think that FNG/SNG should become a firmer structure, rather than simply playing game X at a set time, often we might benefit from more "We're playing X game, will be doing this specific thing" (Such as establishing a colony in MC, or SpaceEngineers, Trying out specific thing in GTA😮 and so on).
We do really need everone willing to come forward with issues, or to partake once here and there so we can work together to grow this little place! We've had some quiet rocky nothingness for a bit after TLB, but that doesn't mean we cant make something of this place. Heck, some of you are still patreon supporters (Which is awesome!) so at least some here must have some hopes to see our group of friends hang on.
We don't need to be the next 'thing' - rather, a small community of gamers and the like chatting and gaming on and off. That's my hope anyway, and as my real life side of things settles down I hope to return to pushing that side of things once more.
What do you like/dislike about the event?
I enjoy the community aspect, we've lost a bit of that unfortunately with less interest and existing members gaming and life schedules changing. The lack of attendance is what kills it.
What should we be playing? Genres? Availability?
FNG/SNG would benefit, in my opinion, from a mixture of cycling new and regular games. Say, Minecraft, TableTop and a few others, alternating between GTAO, Mordhau, Gmod and other flavors of the month/time.
Should we be looking at changing the time of the event from 8pm Sydney to another time? Maybe lock it back down to a single day?
I think the day might be a good one to change, time could then reasonably be earlier if it appealed to more people with less impact on those who needed it later on a Friday. This is a point we'd need a lot of replies for.
Do you have an event ideas that you would like to host?
I've got a couple of Minecraft one-off scenarios, SpaceEngineers and a couple of others in mind as a heavily structured run. Likely a single 2 - 3 hour FNG/SNG Stint. Again, this is an area that i feel more in the community could get behind and suggest, request or even run their own on one of the schedules.
Would you rather someone else be in charge of this event?
With the way these things go, it'll likely need to always be pushed by TRB Management, as things like this generally do.
I'm sure i speak for TRB in general (To members) that anyone is welcome to request to run a FNG/SNG for an idea they have, or simply to take charge. (Within reason of course 🙂 )