The World of Avlis

Friends,

I feel it has been a long time since the last Trade Fair! How about we have one again soon? (( Saturday 10th Jan, starting say 1000hrs GMT, in Coventry Fair, Ferrell? ))

Hope to see you all there soon.

Regards,
Sand

I have money to burn!!!!!

Your wish is the South Avlis Trade Federations command!

There shall be a Trade Fair!

Date and Time to be confirmed forthwith

Laen Toille
South Avlis Trade Federatio

Can we have a specific theme....Armour fair or weapons fair or boots fair...You get the idea. That means that hopefully a more selective crowd will turn up and I do not have to lug around 20 sets of armour unless needed.

A trade fair, that's new to me...

I'm quite interested in that not that I have anything to trade stories and tales.

I will be there if I can find my way.


*signed in a curly script*

Lain'yenna Ju'ei'Malles
Arch-Druid of Rockhome, protector of Ver'Runa.

It starts a little early, but I've been looking forward to another trade fair for a long time. Still looking for that ever elusive Bow.

Might I suggest starting the fair a little later?

Emilia

ooc - not this Saturday please - too many other things planned.

Sunday would be fine.

ooc - let's make a poll for the best day/hour. My vote goes for Saturday 10th January at 16:00 GMT

Sunday 14:00 GMT (or earlier) is better for me.

I'm with nighthawk, Sunday is probably a better day. Anytime after 13:00GMT is fine.

ooc It would be nice if one of these was ever held at a time that is a little later. 14:00 GMT is 6 AM PST, and is really prohibitive for my attendance

I'd prefer Sunday. Time doesnt' matter to me.

OOC The past 4 trade fairs have all been on Sundays. I am in favour of Saturday to be honest. I don't know. I am at a mates tonight so I will start trying to arrange stuff tomorrow night but I will be advising the other League members that we should make it Saturday.

ooc: This whole post is ooc.

i'm not really sure if i should post this here or on R&R so i will tone it righ back and post here.

This is a major generalisation, so if it doesn't apply to you then just ignore it.

Do people in America not realise that the rest of the damn world exists? You are behind GMT, that means most of the world is running ahead of you time wise.

Why does everyone alwasy say, oh sunday would be real good, a midday sunday (gmt) time would make it 1am on monday morning for me, a sunday afternoon meeting for all of you is right about when i start work. There is no way in hell i can make that, some of us have to work. If these sorts of things were held on saturdays for you americans then worst case its sunday for the rest of us and we can choose to lose some sleep to come. By making it first thing monday morning you don't give us that option.

I have a very wealthy character (didn't realise how wealthy untill the gold thrad), and you are losing his business completly because you refuse to acknowledge the rest of the world, and repetedly make these fairs early on monday morning for me.

oh well, your loss i guess, i will find someone more flexable to buy off.

Gosh golly, a trade fair? Will someone be selling them wheelystars? 'Cause I sure could use some a'them, t'chuck at bad folks.

Is this gonna be in Ferrell again? I ain't been home in a month of Sundays. Maybe I'll stop by the village and see how Uncle Raspberry is doing!

Gee willakurs, this sounds awful swell!

Gram Jamjeans, little fist of the Dragon

Psyco wrote:Do people in America not realise that the rest of the damn world exists? You are behind GMT, that means most of the world is running ahead of you time wise.

Umm... Nighthawk's in Britain AFAIK, and I'm in Japan. And we were the ones who scheduled all but one of the trade fairs.

Not everyone will be able to attend all the fairs. I agree that maybe this one should be on a Saturday, even though that means I won't be able to attend. But also remember that we try to schedule the fairs so that the maximum number of merchants and customers can come. I'm afraid often it's the majority that rules, because more customers=more profits, which makes Hurine happy.

OOC All of the other trade fairs have started at god-awful times for the US people. They have been tailored to the rest of the world. Luckily the events went on for a long time, well into the day here.

2ndly, everyone is saying Sunday because there are a buttload of events going on Saturday: I have two overlapping events to attend already, Between the two of them, thats 20+ people that won't be attending a fair on Saturday for a duration of about 3 hours.

If we do Saturday, can we do something completely different, perhaps very late evening US time, that would be midday sunday Australia/Japan. While the Europeans may be sleeping when the event starts, that would be no different than the US/Canadians being in bed when the others have started. I'm trying to suggest a time that is a compromise to all, and would accommodate people that wanted to attend the previous events but couldn't due to timing. thoughts suggestions? OOC

Have all events last for at least 24 hours, to account for every timezone.
Of course, it'll be rough on you DM's, but c'mon... you guys hardly do anything anyway.

(coming from someone who also is a DM...)

Well...well a trade fair. I am a bit short on cash, but ya never know I may find some thing cheep. And they are fun to watch.

((never going to please every one no matter what time it starts. I think many of us yanks lose site of the fact that Avlis has players all over the world. Many of the folks I see regularly are night owls from the UK. But the 1000 gmt would be a bit tuff on us USA players, I do not think I can crawl out of bed at 5am even for a trade fair. But just set a time and if its at a bit of an off time we just may keep the player count down so we do not crash Ferrell more than once or twice.))

Morbid Ridicule wrote:Have all events last for at least 24 hours, to account for every timezone.
Of course, it'll be rough on you DM's, but c'mon... you guys hardly do anything anyway.

(coming from someone who also is a DM...)

I was at one of the fairs, as a DM, for like 8 hours. I'd do it again, but only because Avlis is like crack rock to me.

Deider wrote:

Morbid Ridicule wrote:Have all events last for at least 24 hours, to account for every timezone.
Of course, it'll be rough on you DM's, but c'mon... you guys hardly do anything anyway.

(coming from someone who also is a DM...)

I was at one of the fairs, as a DM, for like 8 hours. I'd do it again, but only because Avlis is like crack rock to me

I thought you were at one for around 12?

Vergilius wrote:I thought you were at one for around 12?

8, 12... after 7 it just becomes one big neverending hour.

Moved to General Discussion, because this stopped being IC awhile ago.

Deider wrote: Moved to General Discussion, because this stopped being IC awhile ago.

good idea

Psyco wrote:Do people in America not realise that the rest of the damn world exists? You are behind GMT, that means most of the world is running ahead of you time wise.

First, some advice: There are plenty of decaf brands out there that taste just as good.

Second, Avlis is not catering to Americans at all - in fact, as has been noted, a lot of events happen at times that are ungodly for Americans, just as they are inconvenient for you. There is no one magic time that works for everyone - if it's the evening in California, it's the middle of the morning in Europe. If it's evening in New Zealand, it's the middle of the morning for California.

Third, I think most players and staff on Avlis are pretty aware that people from all over the world are playing here, and we do everything we can to work around these schedules. I'm personally trying to set up meetings in the next few days with people that are in 3 different time zones, none of them incidentally my own. We all do what we can to accomodate, but sometimes you just have to pick a time that works for the largest number of people.

Fourth, Saturday's pretty booked for a lot of people, including much of the Team. If we can have more players on Sunday, and more Team members are available on Sunday, then I think it makes sense to do it on Sunday.

Even if it's held at oh-my-god-it's-early time in California and what-the-hell-are-they-thinking time in New Zealand.

- Aloro

Aloro wrote:There are plenty of decaf brands out there that taste just as good.

*slaps Aloro across the face with a wet fish*

Decaf? how dare you suggest such an obsurdity!

*listens to the sweet sound of his perculator bubbling away in the background.....*

Heh, it's actually a movie quote. I, for one, don't believe in drinking decaf, just as I don't believe in drinking near-beer. I mean, if you're going to do something, just fucking do it.

But I thought the quote fit, so...

- Aloro