Well what can I say?!
In an attempt to improve The Great Boolprop Olympic Team events into a well organised and enjoyable experience for everyone here at Boolprop,
I am trying to take a leaf out of Livvie's excellent organisational skills book, and am jumping on her band wagon so to speak .. with a Newsletter!
So here I am, at the beginning of trying to create (what I hope will be) a regular informative monthly house newsletter, about all things TGBO related, for all house members.
For none house member, I hope it gives them an insight of what is going on with the TGBO events section, and encourages them to join one of our five great houses!!
So as not to interfere with Livvies awesome Story Newsletters that are published on the first of every month.
The House Newsletters will be published on the 7th of every month.
This will give me a week to count up the scorecards, finalise the past months events and organise the month a heads house activities and events.
I hope all of you had a great Halloween, especially here on Boolprop, where the fun is only just beginning!!
On the 24th November, Boolprop is 13 years old!!! Which of course is a reason to celebrate with a Teen theme!!
So we have another fun packed Event planned, to come this month, with more house points and medals, for you to look forward to!!
We are hoping to kick Boolprop's 13th Birthday Party off on the 15th November, with a great Birthday Surprise!! Which we are impatient for you to see
Also Livvie and myself have put our heads together to create another new fun "quick play" challenge for you "The Immortal Teenager"
and while I have this platform, I would just like to point out something that I think is important for you to know!!!
Even though I am the one creating the events posts, I can not take all the credit, because Livvie is right there with me!!
We have become a team in the events department, and she is helping me to create, brainstorm and fine tune all of these events for your enjoyment, especially the new challenges!!!
So she needs her share of the love and recognition too
Thanks Liv, I couldn't do it without you!!
So, less of my rattling, and onto the House news, and information ....
I hope you are sitting comforably, because this is probably going to be a long one!!!
Firstly I would like to apologise for the lack of House Battles during October.
I can make a lot of excuses as to why the house battle kept getting put off until October had run away from me, but I won't!!
Quite simply, I do not have enough hours in my day, for everything I am trying to do,
especially when real life gets in the way, and unfortunately, in October, something had to give.
However, there will be plenty of House Battles to come in the future, so I hope October's House battle will not have been missed too much.
That said I plan to do at least one House Battle a month in the future, time allowing!!
A few changes that are being made from this month going forward ...
1. The Post Counts Goals.
At the moment the post count goals for points, are set at every 500 post intervals.
500 posts feels like a very steep hill to climb, so we are making the climb a little more gradual.
From this month (November) the post goals are being reduced to every 250 posts instead of 500.
50 - 100 - 250 - 500 - 750 - 1000 - 1250 - 1500 - 1750 - 2000 ect
I will be working on making this change over, during the next week, by amending each members post goals on each house scorecard header post.
Any points owed for post goals past this month using the new post goals, will be added to your scorecards.
I regularly check on your post counts already (when the scorecards are totalled up) and award the points when necessary,
so this is something that you don't really need to worry about, just be aware of.
However, there is nothing stopping you from shouting up when you reach a post goal!!!
The reward for reaching each post goal remains the same = 30 house points.
2. The House Scorecards
The house score cards are in desperate need of being organising into a well running system.
In the past the score card results have been published pretty hap haphazardly, and have not been very consistent.
This I am partly responsible for, and feel the need to apologize again!
I went a little awol for 6 months, for personal reasons, and during that time, no scorecards were issued and everything went a little scatty.
In August, when I returned, we started over and now everything is back on track again.
That said, from now on it is going to change, and for the better!!!
Starting with its name .... it is now going to be referred to as The House Points Battle.
(As the houses are battling each other over the quarter to earn the most house points.)
You might have noticed that you have been provided with monthly scorecards for the past three months.
From now on each house scorecard will be totalled up at the end of every month.
The monthly score results will be published in the monthly House Newsletter, so that you can see how your house is doing during the quarter.
At the end of each quarter...
Each house's three months worth of scorecards will be added together to create a House total for the quarter.
The House that scores the most points during the quarter, will win the House Points Battle!!
Members of the house that wins the House Point Battle, will each receive a winners choice medal of their choosing.
The Quarters
1st = Jan/Feb/March ... 2nd = April/May/June ... 3rd = July/August/Sept ... 4th = Oct/Nov/Dec
3. Happy Birthday Points
Everyone should receive at least one gift on their birthday.
So from now on when your birthday comes around ...
"Happy Birthday!!" you can add 100 points to your house scorecard.
October Points Lottery Draw Results
Well done to the October Points Lottery winners
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1st number = 42 picked by Pony = 100 points for Woohoo
2nd number = 30 picked by Ani-Mei = 50 points for Motherlode
3rd number = 26 picked by mojot89 = 25 points for Motherlode
These points have already been added to your house November scorecards!
Don't forget to take part in the November points lottery and be in with a chance of winning points for your house!
October Chat-a-thon
I was a little disappointed to see that the October Chat-a-thon was a lot quieter, with all of the houses, than it has been in our previous Chat-a-thons!
I hope that this was because you were otherwise occupied with the Halloween events and real life,
rather than boredom creeping in with the Chat-a-thon event!!!
If the later is the case, then please let me know!!
Well done to House Motherlode who came out on top with their nattering!!
Motherlode = 104 posts ... 204 Points
Plumbob = 98 posts ... 148 Points
Woohoo = 91 posts ... 116 Points
Llama = 41 posts ... 41 Points
Smustle = 10 posts ... 10 Points
These points have already been added to your house November scorecards!
House Score Cards ... House Points Battle!!
Now we get to the part where your points collecting pays off!!
3rd Quarter House Points Battle Results.
August 2018 Scorecard Totals
Plumbob = 1045 points
Motherlode = 855 points
Llama = 355 points
Woohoo = 210 points
Smustle = 180 points
September 2018 Scorecard totals
Plumbob = 1810 points
Motherlode = 749 points
Smustle = 609 points
Woohoo = 490 points
Llama = 368 points
Unfortunately, due to circumstances mentioned about,
for the Third Quarter House Points Battle, we are only working with two months worth of points,
rather than the usual three!
Quarterly Scorecard Totals
Plumbob =2855
Motherlode =1604
Smustle =789
Llama = 723
Woohoo =700
Congratulations to House Plumbob
who win the 3rd quarter House Points Battle!!
All Plumbob member are entitled to collect a winners choice medal.
Please pm me, or one of the other moderators, with the name of your chosen medal, and it till be sent to you!!
Going forward into the 4th quarter ...
October 2018 Scorecards
Motherlode = 2690 points
Plumbob - 1885 points
Llama = 1685 points
Woohoo = 1075 points
Smustle = 895 points
At the moment House Motherlode are out in the lead,
but there are another two months of points collecting ahead of us,
so it is still anyone's game!!!
House Babies!!
As most of you know, we have our first two House Mascot Juniors!!!
Leo, from Plumbob and Kylie from Woohoo, in House Battle 2, managed to beat the 10% Risky odds.
They have given us the cutest pair of twins, who have now been officially named, by Leo and Kylies creators.
Levi Plumbob
Levi will join team Plumbob as their mascot junior.
Amai Woohoo
Amai will join team Woohoo, as their mascot junior.
What is all this Mascot Junior rubbish you are thinking!?
Well .... planned for the future ... Mascot Junior House Battles.
I plan to collect up the house babies to create a Junior Mascot Team
a house baby Junior representing each house. They will be taking part in their own Junior battles (as children and teens)!!
Now all we need is Llama, Motherlode and Smustle to create us some cute babies!!
In the meantime, Levi and Amai will be moved into a house along with their Grandfather Rocky.
Leo is a born in game sim, so I thought it would be cute to keep it in the family.
So Rocky is now our official house baby sitter and will be taking care of the twins, and any other House Babies that come along.
So expect updates of them growing up!! They will be growing up in game, not via CAS!!!
A few things I would like to bring to your attention .....
House Notice Board.
For anyone who has not found it yet ....
we have a House Notice Board in House Boolprop, which is the community forum where ALL house members can mingle together.
The House Notice Board is were house members will find all TGBO's important and useful links.
It will help you to keep on top of new and ongoing activities and show you exactly where the points are at!
So it is worth checking out the House Notice Board regularly!!
Trophy Cabinet
Yeah .. pretty lame right!?
However, it is no good the houses winning things, if we don't at least keep some sort of record of it to look back on!!
So there is now a House Trophy Cabinet in the community area.
Shamefully it has been there for a while waiting for some attention, and is at the moment only a list of who has won what.
I am working on graphics to display the house achievements in a better way.
Have Your Say!!
I have now placed a "Sounding Board" in House Boolprop for all house members to use.
If you have any problems, questions, thoughts, suggestions, idea's ect relating to anything in the TGBO section
Please speak out!!
I am always open to any new house battle, events or activity ideas that you might have!!!
If we all work together, we can make this a better experience for all of us!!!
I think that is maybe enough for you to digest for one day,
So lastly ....
While you are waiting for the !3th Birthday Party to officially kick off
I have released a few of the party balloons.
They are now floating around the forum carrying different amounts of house points with them.
If you find one ... pm me with a link to its location, and you will earn yourself the house points.
Once found the balloon will be moved, so you don't just get the one chance to find it!
So go get those points!!!
have fun!!