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Cheshly
No problem! ^^
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serefleur
So your lore idea is that everyone is exalting dragons for something akin to a sporting event (as martial arts can qualify as such) using the arena?
...I can see how you might be thinking that it's closer to what would canonically happening with the game mechanics than what Cheshly and I were discussing, but I feel there'll be a bit of a leap between lore and how exalting works whatever we pick (since having more team members participating doesn't necessarily give the team more victories in a martial arts tournament, I'd think)
It took me a little to realise you were possibly thinking that the badges for placing in the top three would effectively be tournament trophies, and at one point wondered if they'd be for sending in the most teams (or groups of three or something). Probably overthinking on my part, but I thought I'd mention it.
If it's decided we need to commission someone to make badges, I'd be inclined to advise against having especially many.
Also, what would you be thinking that the currency earned from treasure/gem tickets would go towards, lore-wise? Would they be literal tickets to watch the tournament?
If lore-gameplay dissonance is a massive issue, then I've figured a possible adjustment for each idea. That perhaps the exalted have organised the week's duties such that for this week any newly exalted would work on projects alongside beasts, and/or peacekeeping in areas where the peace-seeking beastclans have been getting attacked.
Maybe you could try for the exalted having a week off work for sports (or friendly bouts or whatever you prefer to call it) for your idea. I'm not sure how important it is to have the lore and exaltation mechanic fit together perfectly though.
Regarding how potentially to ensure numbers and levels of exalted are recorded accurately, I'm guessing you're imagining people pinging with the numbers and levels they're about to exalt, and that whoever's online checks that the dragon IDs given are at the levels the poster claims before giving the go-ahead. I can also imagine people taking screenshots of the dragons' pages, with it visible that they are in the poster's lair, as well as the ID and level could work. (With that, if necessary, we can potentially double-check after that the dragon in question was exalted, as opposed to being kept to be re-entered into the raffle at a later point or something, but I might be over-thinking things.)
What timezone are you in in relation to FR, by the way (since the question of having people online came up)? I'm 8 hours ahead of FR time. Just wondering how much of a 24-hour period we can potentially cover between us.
Having levelled dragons as a way of earning tickets does seem like it makes things pretty complicated. ^^;