Origins registration system was actually worse last year. No idea what it will be like this year. At least this year they made a spreadsheet version available, which they refused to do last year.

Now, if I could only get all of the RPG games to run on the same schedule… If I want to play any RPGA games, I can’t play any Indie games that day, because one is on a 5 hour slot schedule and the other on a 4 hour slot schedule.

*sigh*

I’ve been going to Gencon since 1985 (and got stuck in the dorms too) and will probably keep going till I die.

Apropos of nothing, I’m from Michigan. I have a theory about the quantity and quality of gaming in our fine state. It’s the weather – 9 months of winter and 3 of bad sledding. No wonder we game – ain’t much else to do but drink and shine deer…

Their supposed “fix” this year was shot full of holes on the GC forums almost from the minute after the mail went out. Did he listen, and see the logical flaw in the plan? Oh, fuck no.

They got more BW this year, but it just shifted the bottleneck to the shitty fucking DB app they run the registration system with. Until they iron that shit out, and go with more robust software, you can forget about it ever getting better.

In the meantime, they really need to stagger registration, give True Dungeon a whole day unto itself. Give the RPGA a whole day unto itself, and make them on weekends so people don’t have to schedule an afternoon off. Then work through the rest of events by day.

All of this, and other ideas, have been floated on the GC forum for a long time. That asshole CJ is too fucking arrogant to see the merit in any of them. Adkison needs to shitcan his useless fucking ass and hire an IT guy with a clue.

Johnn: That’s a toughie. Seeing my friends from Michigan is a huge part of going to GenCon for me, so I think I’d be more likely to just go see them than to try another con.

That said, I’ve never checked out the Utah con scene — if there even is a Utah con scene. Hmmmm.

Unfortuantely, I don’t have any specific links. What I recall is a post on the GenCon forums from a GenCon LLC IT guy, in the lead-up to event registration last year, saying, “we’re ready for it this year, we’ve got the capacity, we’ve tested it, trust me, it’ll be different.”

And, as you probably recall, the system gakked within minutes of going live, and they weren’t able to bring it back until the next morning.

There are a few events (True Dungeon) that I keep hearing about that bring the registration system to it’s knees. Last year they sold out all tickets in two hours. This year they tried to stagger the ticket avalibility times and still there were long page load times and issues with stupid overlapping schedule error messages. If I am correct in that assertation then perhaps those event(s) should be scheduled on a different server at a different time. In the case of True Dungeon I would prefer it to be ahead of time as the time slot that I get for that event dictates what much of the rest of my GenCon schedule will look like.

As for ticket scheduling. It would be nice if it would get give me tickets in the first avalible slot of the overlapping events. This way you could put in 10 enties for TD (each are 12 mins apart and the event runs 2 hours) and it would look through all the slots I listed and give me tickets from the first slot that had open spots.

Thanx for listening to my rant,

Kizan

and we “feel” his anger?