Hatching Rates [POLL]

[Zen]

Please vote for how often you think we should have hatchings! This will determine how often Golds rise (and how often the Weyrleader changes) and also the general number of eggs we have per clutch.

Feel free to comment and discuss below~

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1 Large clutch every 2 turns. 

This is because with too many clutches you'll find yourself lacking candidates unless you start npcing clutches.

It also can allow for some plot ideas like, someone tries to assassinate a Queen dragon or a clutch etc.

[madb]

I love hatchings soo much even if I don't have a candidate to play so I am going to say one per turn, allowing for a large (ish ... for us) hatching event that the whole family can enjoy but not so long apart that I'll start having withdrawal symptoms xD

[Deleted]

I vote for two smaller clutches per Turn, because that will avoid the problem of "lots of Candidates joining to Impress, and then wandering off into nowhere after a couple of lessons."

Maybe if we keep the clutches to about 10-ish eggs each, we can retain more IC characters and not have so many Suddenly NPC Weyrlings after a month or two. (Plus we wouldn't have to kill so many off at their first Threadfall. Just saying.)

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I'd say 1 large every 2 turns. Having 2 small every turn means the leader would change pretty often and not many people may get to know the Weyrleader. Having 1 large every Turn seems logical, but that would be like us having a kid every year...and I'm not so sure a woman's body would be up for something like that. That be the case, I'm not so sure having young every turn would be very enjoyable for the Gold.

Then again, I don't know Golds, so that's up for debate.

[Deleted]

I would say have weyrleader flights be infrequent but with juniors we could easily have several clutches a turn. Maybee npc some to give people options when joining or making new characters and keep candidates from being depleted.

ALSO I LIKE THE MURDER PLOT KILLY WANTS IN ON THAT!!

[Rhush]

The Weyrleader flight is less often naturally since we have four golds. Since Zalamaranth is the current Senior Gold (Weyrwoman's dragon) and her clutch was earlier this year, and we just had Aerroth (the next oldest queen's) hatching, the next golds to rise (as they rise roughly once every two turns canonically) would be the twins, Danovelith and Sularenth.

So, the goldflight schedule would look something like this (these dates are made up and only for example):

Month 5, Turn 5 - Danovelith
Month 11, Turn 5 - Sularenth
Month 2, Turn 6 - Zalamaranth
Month 8, Turn 6 - Aerroth
Month 4, Turn 7 - Danovelith
Month 12, Turn 7 - Sularenth
Month 3, Turn 8 - Zalamaranth
Month 7, Turn 8 - Aerroth

So every IC turn we would have two golds rise, and roughly every 2 IC turns we would have a weyrleader flight (presuming there's no plots that kill off Karredy and Zalamaranth, in which case the next gold to rise would be the weyrleader flight, which would shift the weyrleader flight's month/turn, but it would still be 2 turns between them.) What this poll is basically going to determine is how fast time goes by IC in comparison to OOC; For example, presuming we currently have a 1:1 time ratio (that is, 1 OOC year to 1 IC turn ratio) if we have two smaller clutches a turn, that's two goldflights a year, and one IC turn = 1 OOC year. If we have only one large clutch a year, that's one goldflight a year, which is 0.5 IC turn = 1 OOC year-it halves because to only have one flight a year, only half the IC year has to pass. If we have one larger clutch every two turns, that would make it one goldflight every two years, which is 0.25 IC turn = 1 OOC year-it halves again because you're trying to have only one flight every two years, and if you have two flights in one IC turn, you'd have to split up that IC turn over two years.

In overview, time IC would move slower and slower as the clutch size gets larger and the number of clutches gets smaller, leaving more time to be weyrlings/candidates/etc, and spacing out weyrleader flights more and more; unless we change the normal amount of turns between each gold's rising from two turns to three or four accordingly. Personally, I prefer either one large clutch every turn or two smaller clutches each turn, because I get a little tired of waiting months for my weyrlings to be able to fly, let alone years, and because hatchings are often one of the main drawing points for new players; if they have to wait until next year for their candidate to impress because they missed this most recent hatching, they don't always stick around.

So yeah. There's my long, drawn-out two cents. xD (I was the time-master on another site, so I've got some background in handling the passing of time.)

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Holy crap, Rhush, that is kind of awesome. I mostly keep track of RPG time in a REALLY general manner.

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I vote several small clutch per turn. It gives candidates that don't impress at one hatching to try again or to wait another turn before another clutch

[Deleted]

I guess that settles that. ^_^