[ANSTHRLD] Second Draft of Achievements Proposal Online

[Jennifer Smith]

The numbers are interesting.

While I personally favor relaxing some of the restrictions, one of the
other things we might look at is simply relaxing some of the
uniqueness requirements, where they clash with historical accuracy.
Specifically, the current requirement that supporters be unique: this
appears to be entirely un-historical, and as a society based on
historical education, seems a prime target for "fix that". Just like
with the incorrect assumption that "simple armory is hard to get",
I've heard from several people entitled to supporters that they assume
it'll be hard to get the set of supporters they want. This is in many
cases an incorrect assumption, but even so, removing the necessity for
unique supporters would go a long way.

Our award structure is not terribly historic. It would be nice if our
achievement structure did mimic history a tad more than it currently
does.

As for my own achievement, I've been waffling for a while over what
crest to use, and now I've got a motto to decide upon as well. It'll
be a while before I register anything until I get that sorted out in
my own head!

(Insert standard gripe about Provinces not being mentioned, again, and
suggest that like Baronies they be treated as a Peer, but unlike
Baronies, not as Nobility as of course they have no landed nobility.)

-Emma

On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 9:56 PM, Scott Fridenberg <fitzmorgan at gmail.com> wrote:
> I took a few moments to look at the Achievements that have been registered
> in the OP.  I did not do a detailed look just a quick count.
>
> Not counting Branches we had 156 Achievements.  I counted 57 Mottoes.
>  Since mottoes are reserved to Peers we have at least that many Peers, I
> did notice a few people I knew to be peers who did not have a motto, but I
> would say roughly 60% of those with registered Achievements were peers.  I
> also counted 89 sets of supporters, which would give us a bit less than 60%
> being Nobles.
>
> Since Peers and Nobles make up about 60% of those who have registered an
> Achievement, and they make up a much smaller portion of the population of
> the Kingdom, this could lead some support to the idea that people are
> more likely to register when  they get the motto and supporters.  It
> might also mean that by the time you have risen to that rank you are
> more likely to be aware that you can register and Achievement.
>
> My subjective impression browsing the list is that it was heavily weighted
> toward old timers.
>
> I'm not sure if this adds anything to the discussion, but I figured that if
> I was interested enough to go look, someone else might be interested too.
>
> Robert Fitzmorgan
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