EC Game of the Month - On Holiday

[daward2]

I vote for ParisParis

--SpaceSquirrel

I second that emotion.

[PaulW]

PR will be one GOTM (unless I hear a large shout from the masses)

Tally:

SJ (4)  - PaulW (3), Elttil (4), DQ (5), Esterio (6)
ParisParis (2) - Squirrel(9), daward2 (10)
SS (1) - ratpfink (8 )
Doko (1) - Elttil (1), szwanger (7)
Go (0) - DQ (2)

Tiebreaker by longest held vote.  Each person gets one.

Current Picks: PR, SJ
Deadline: Monday Aug 28th about 3AM BSW Time

[PaulW]

Looking like we are going with PR and SJ.  Our home page has been updated.

[PaulW]

End of Month is getting closer.  Time to vote for Game(s) of the Month.

Did a lot of people play PR and SJ?  We have a LOT of PR games still to play in Nicias' league.  Do we still find the GOTM useful?

Please let me know your thoughts and votes.

[Elttil]

I played a handful of both games this month, but more SJ than PR.

As I look through the game rooms EC has that I've never played, I see Clans, Go, and Ra so I'd like to see at least one of those as GOTM. Clans is for 2-4 players, Ra 3-5, and Go for 2.

[porcupine]

Clans and Ra sounds ok, I know the first but not the second. As for Go, Don really likes it and he's one of the few in town who would like to promote the game. But he's out of town until October 16th. Maybe we should postpone Go to another month.

-pine

[Esterio]

I like the idea of Clans (mainly 2p) and Ra (3-5p) as GotM. These are my votes too.

Esterio

PS: I can explain either if needed.

[PaulW]

Good timing.  I was starting to wonder if anyone in EC was still following GOTM...

Looks like Clans and Ra right now.

[Elttil]

I vote for Säulen der Erde for November. It can handle 2-4 players and appears to be better with more at this point.

[PaulW]

Ah, good timing Elttil.  Yes, it's that time again.  I'll vote for Säulen der Erde and SchrilleStille.

[Esterio]

I would be happy with these (Säulen der Erde & Schrille Stille) as GotM.

Esterio

[PaulW]

Hi All, 

Does anyone still follow the Games of the Month?

We had only 3 people vote for this last month and that's with reminding people to vote with the Message of the Day for the last week in the month.

Should we drop GOTM for awhile?

[Prisoner6]

I can honestly say that GotM doesn't really influence my choice of games except (maybe) on EC day. 

I don't see anyone else cheering for GotM in the EC chat either.

Maybe someone should write a script to choose the GotM randomly.

[Don_Quijote]

I still think GOTM is a good idea and it worked for me in the beginning.

I wasn't regularly on in recent weeks/month so I thought it was just me who did not play the GOTM because I wasn't there.

It might be that there is a general GOTM-fatigue and I wrongly attributed it to the fact that I didn't get much of a chance to play.

Perhaps (provided we want to keep it alive) it needs a kick-off like a teach-in on EC Day and then it is GOTM until next EC day. Perhaps there are other possible incentives (or we just drop it until Munchkins want to have it back).

DQ

[reikja]

When we started GOTM, it was an effort to get the people to try (and play!) the games who are not played very often in town
and - get them re-started!

Making a brandnew game GOTM therefore was not the favorite aim - for it will be played a lot untill people get used to it and dropt it again


Guess we should stick on the basic idea, forcing minimum played "older" games to be played more often!

reikja