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battleshipex2023-08-21 02:31 pm
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Creator Reveals + Feedback Post
Creators of our over 1000 works are revealed! RIP to AO3's mailserver and your inboxes.
Thank you so much, everyone who made this one of the best Battleship rounds ever! The mods had fun and we hope all the participants did too. Take a goggle at this year's stats—truly incredible.
To keep the good times going, Soulstoned is making bingo cards with under-used tags from this year. Complete a bingo (by posting treats for Battleship 2023 requests to the Battleship 2023 collection) before Battleship 2024 nominations begin and win a tag claim! Email battleshipexchange@gmail.com or DM Soulstoned on Discord for info on how to request a bingo card.
If you were on Team Tower, you can claim a tag for next year. If you were not on a team and you posted two or more works to the main collection, you can claim a tag for next year. If you completed two or more treats during the anon period, you can claim a tag for next year. If you get a bingo, you can claim a tag for next year. These claims stack! Please claim your tags here.
We would love your feedback on any and every aspect of Battleship 2023, and your ideas for 2024. Please comment here with your thoughts, even if you already made suggestions in Discord—having everything in one place will make it much easier for us to look through it all and make decisions about what to inflict on Team Crystal and Team Volcano next year. If you want to give feedback privately, email battleshipexchange@gmail.com.
As a final treat, here are all the treasures given to both teams and the treasure hunters. See you next year!
Thank you so much, everyone who made this one of the best Battleship rounds ever! The mods had fun and we hope all the participants did too. Take a goggle at this year's stats—truly incredible.
To keep the good times going, Soulstoned is making bingo cards with under-used tags from this year. Complete a bingo (by posting treats for Battleship 2023 requests to the Battleship 2023 collection) before Battleship 2024 nominations begin and win a tag claim! Email battleshipexchange@gmail.com or DM Soulstoned on Discord for info on how to request a bingo card.
If you were on Team Tower, you can claim a tag for next year. If you were not on a team and you posted two or more works to the main collection, you can claim a tag for next year. If you completed two or more treats during the anon period, you can claim a tag for next year. If you get a bingo, you can claim a tag for next year. These claims stack! Please claim your tags here.
We would love your feedback on any and every aspect of Battleship 2023, and your ideas for 2024. Please comment here with your thoughts, even if you already made suggestions in Discord—having everything in one place will make it much easier for us to look through it all and make decisions about what to inflict on Team Crystal and Team Volcano next year. If you want to give feedback privately, email battleshipexchange@gmail.com.
As a final treat, here are all the treasures given to both teams and the treasure hunters. See you next year!
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What I liked the most:
- Two tag choices per square. I think we all agree that was a great move. And I kept trying to fit both tags in a work for maximum tag efficiency (not that it always worked but still)
- Minesweeper was fun too. I haven't the slightest idea of how to play it properly and I relied a lot on my team mates, but it was great to see the numbers pop up in the chart. Though I would prefer it if maybe Minesweeper was only in the last portion of the game, since we're playing battleship after all.
- The spreadsheets! Oh god, how I loved the spreadsheets. Team Tower and lailah specifically made this game so much more fun to me because I was able to visualize what we needed and when we needed it
- I liked the 10 works cap per week. Though I never reached it, I think it's a good method to avoid burnout and it encouraged an interesting atmosphere on Sundays right before the reset, when we all wanted to get a last work in just in case.
What I feel neutral about:
- Treasure hunters. I didn't really see them much and I didn't really understand if they would eventually help a team or not. If they come back next year, I'd love it if it were to play alongside the teams to finish their own board (making it a 3-way competition) or if they had a day where they could choose to collab with any team, no bribery required.
What could be improved:
-Honestly, I feel pretty great about this round, but I did find myself shocked that Team Tower cleared the last board so fast, so maybe the last board could have higher number of works or maybe it could have a higher minimum word count, something to make it more challenging (and to give people in all timezones a chance to create)
- The bosses were great! I truly enjoyed the moment we created for them because I could really let loose and write, but maybe the second boss needs to be a bigger challenge still? I'm just terribly impressed by the speed at which my team created
Thank you guys for running this exchange! I had a lot of fun and I feel like I connected with a lot of great people. Also, fuckwater you will always be famous.