At least the discussions got going again :).
Well, I already made a proposal:-
1) Whenever someone posts on the Thread for the first time, they declare which side they'll be posting on & register them accordingly on the guys or girls' side on the OP. Once that's done strictly no switching sides.
2) Keep it traditional, guys go down by one, girls go up by one, that way it'll be fair to everyone.
3) Keep it simple, with only the double posting not allowed rule in place.
Its not easy to know if a person is switching sides or not, without keeping track, isn't it? I've done 3 massive Events that required me to keep track of a lot of stuff simultaneously, so I can take the responsibility of making the Thread.
As for my idea, it was just an attempt to try something new & it allows people of any Gender to participate. But alright, maybe we can have that as a separate game then?
Thinking about it though, I'm not sure how good of an idea it is, to prevent people from switching sides. What if a gender-fluid person wants to switch sides midway, you cannot say "oh you can't do that because you already picked a Gender", don't think it'll sound very nice. And what if the game tilts highly in favour of one faction & someone wants to help out (which is what happened on the previous game)?
Have the girls won a Gender Race before, not sure if they have, so its actually a good thing the tradition of boys always winning was broken last time.
Also, would this still count as a Gender Race (if guys are allowed to support girls or even vice-versa), this is more like one faction vs another, with people picking which side (Gender) they want to Vote for (like what happened in the previous one), which beats the purpose in the first place.
Let's all be really honest here, there can never be a
perfect solution (if such a thing even exists).
But if you are looking for one how about this - let's not think too much about this, its only a Game after all
. Go either with how its traditionally played (Girls up by 1, Guys down by 1) or what we did last time (Girls go up by 2, Guys down by 1), with only Global Pokecommunity Rules in place & forget making any other rule.
Pika Pika :chu: