Talk:Shabbat Ab Desert Obelisk Queue

This is an unfair assignment queue and will probably not be respected by the Region. Doing anything by fiat is a recipe for disaster. I strongly recommend that you work with the region on a system instead of just putting yourself at the head of the line. -Aperio

I do agree with Aperio. If someone logins today and sees the que, how are we going to explain them they need to wait for 2 months before building their obelisk. Just because they logged just before test announcement. I don't think this system will work. We need to came up with something more fair and solid. -Urizen

Queues have been used in previous tellings and in other regions. I was looking to built, no one had built yet, so I built and started the queue page. Surely first come first served isn't ideal. Maybe randomize the people who signed up in the first 24 hours for the order. A obelisk guild might be helpful. I'm not averse to ripping down my obelisk if people organize a better method. -Matk

Well, there isn't really any fair method at this point. A random drawing before the test opened would have been ideal, but at this point, a random draw would shuffle people up and down and probably lead to more animosity and queue jumping than anything else, especially after the 16 cubit queue jump already. As far as new players not willing to wait for two months, there's no good solution for that one, either. A build assistance fund may help if we can get that information out to new players and get the contributions for it. Along with the idea that once things die down a bit, its quite possible they can build in another region or build another type of obelisk sooner and cheaper than the end of the queue. If no one else wants the job, I can build a guildhall and start trying to get contributions for it. -shadeking

Alternatively, we could take everyone on the queue list and do a random drawing each time an obelisk is completed to see who should go next. Perhaps giving sufficient notice to get the required resources by drawing 2 people ahead so that they know they're turn is coming up. That would be mostly fair, I think, for anyone coming in new. But we would need to get the OK from most people on the current queue list, since that shuffle everyone around. Any other ideas or anyone who thinks this one is a bad idea? -shadeking

How would the drawing be done? Can we trust somebody to make it truly random and not pick their friends first? -Nemoder