Villain Application Purge

[Urasept 1361]

This is not a new idea, this concept was brought up originally when swapping from the AV to the current format. Only difference is now the VAT has the manpower to go through with it.

Going to semi overhaul the system in itself. Making some of the evils itself into its own branch, which I will post the redone system at the end of all this. I went ahead and ran a google doc poll through the VAT already and had a unanimous vote for we should do a purge, with everyone voting that we should purge. Nobody had voted no at all.

The only downside to a purge of VA's is the guaranteed rage that will ensue. Most of the people with current VA's are pretty much frequent applicants as is. SO most will not complain, but will be a minor inconvenience to them. But there will be some more outspoken then others.

The benefit of a purge would be archiving or just moving all current VA's accepted or denied to dead threads and do a complete fresh start. This makes finding people's VA's easier, whether for GM's or players. It would make all the VA's up to date. It would clear out the VA's of dead characters, banned players, or people that left the server all together. In the end it would make organization alot more probable. It would make searching for VA's easier instead of sifting through the army VA's already in action, as some people have multiple VA's for multiple characters. So even if you searched the forum by the MCname you could bring up a handful of different VA's for that player, that could just be completely irrelevant to the situation they would need to look for it. This would also discourage people from bringing dead characters back, and already having a VA set in motion, where as they could just simply say that he never died, but merely went missing.

Long story short All the VAT that voted said they were for the purge. Several GM's / Admins voted for it. Nobody is against it in anything posted to the two teams. Fact is my team is big enough now to take the workload of everyone reapplying. So on that terms it is easily viable to do the purge and have everyone up and running as soon as possible.

Also so people can stop generalizing themselves saying they have an evil and using it to fully do everything labeled for the category, instead of what they initially applied for. It will get people to think more about what they are going for and the reason their character may need it.

VA's posted from October 2012 on, are fine, you do not need to redo it.

From now there is a 2 week window to grab your old apps, and you can go in there and grab your own app. From then it will be archived and a VAT member can actually fetch out the of the archive.

[SparehoeCakes 547]

If you posted your application in October or November of 2012 (meaning October 1st, or after), you will need to make a mini-app, to fix your evils. Being that the evils have been switched around and changed. We ask, that for the MINI-VAs that you create, to update your new evils, that you include the link to your accepted application (And any other VAs/Mini-VAs you have accepted for that character) as well as the new evils in the evils section. We ask that you tell us what evils you were accepted for before, and what evils they are converting to. You can leave the rest blank as you are only updating evils. We also ask that you label the title as [Evil Update]. You will NOT need references or support on your Evil Update app.

PS- You can only have an [Evil Update] ^_mini-application if you have applied and been accepted since October 1st 2012. Other than that, you will be required to write a whole new VA, explained above.

If you have questions, please direct them to the Q&A or a PM to either me or another VAT.

--Edit--

Updating your evils (if you have an accepted app after October 1st) is not optional. It is required, as the evils have greatly changed.

[SparehoeCakes 547]

Just to clarify something many people have been asking me, your BASE VA (The one with 5 ORQs, questions, bio, alignment) is the VA that has to be accepted by October 1st. A Mini-VA doesn't count, and you will need to re-write your VA, as it will be Purged.

As always, PM me if you have questions!

[SparehoeCakes 547]

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