Game Selection

Table Game Selection
Table Games are selected prior to the start of a season. Players are responsible for building a team and applying to the game of their choice after the tables for the season are announced. The application process is as follows:
 * Players will build a team and decide which table they wish to apply to.
 * A chosen member of that team will send the team roster to the Plot Admin. This must contain, player name and character name for each player and which game the team is applying to.
 * A team may not apply to more than one game a season
 * A player may not apply with more than one team at a time
 * The Plot Admin will announce how many teams have applied to a game as they apply. Who applied to what games and with what team will remain secret until the deadline of submission
 * The Plot will submit the teams to the Admins who will go over the teams and choose which team sits at what table based on the laid out criteria

Table Games are selected with the following criteria in descending order:


 * The team with players who have not played in a table game the direct previous season
 * The team with the most players who have not played in a table game
 * The team with the lowest amount of collective seasons playing in table games
 * The team with the least amount of games played overall
 * Further ties will be broken by the Admins

Opportunity Game Selection
Opportunity games are announced no less than 4 days prior to the run being scheduled. Players must create a team and apply by posting in the GM’s oppo channel, with players listed. The team that is awarded the game will be announced after the cut off which is 24 hours prior to the game OR 5pm UTC the day before, whichever comes first. A character who is participating in a Table Game, may not apply to an Oppo for the duration of the season. The player may apply with an alternative character if they have one. A player may not apply to a game on more than one team. Oppo teams are selected via the following priority:


 * The players' games played for the current season are added up for each team and the averages are compared, the lowest average will be chosen. At the beginning of this step, each player’s game count will be multiplied by one plus the number of games they have played in the current server week (Monday through Sunday). If a Team Game Count is being substituted for the individual game counts, the count modification will be made using the games that the team has played as a whole in the current server week.
 * The team with the least amount of players in a table game that season will be chosen.
 * The players on each team with the lowest game count will be compared and the team with the lowest count will be chosen. In the event of a tie here the next two lowest will be compared and so on.
 * If a team still hasn’t been chosen at least two admins will decide.

That calculation will be shown to the Plot Team and the GM and they will announce the team at or after the cut off usually within the hour. Games played will include table game counts, and is current to the application cut off. Oppo games are added to your game participation counts once the game is announced.

Game participation numbers are not shared outside of staff until the end of the season

Standard Backfills
If your team is selected and does not have a full complement of 6 players when they are awarded the game, you may recruit players from any other teams that applied to that game. This is not a required action and is up to each team to decide. In cases where a player has had to drop for any reason between the team being announced and the game the team may backfill from any other teams that applied first, then may recruit from the reserve players as a whole to fill the spot.

Missing/Absent Backfill
A player is considered Missing 5 minutes after game start unless they have informed the GM prior to the game start in that GM's game channel. If they have informed the GM prior to game start, they are considered Missing 10 minutes after game start.

The GM must ping any players who have not joined the Voice Chat once they are considered Missing, in their game channel. Missing players are allowed a 5 minute window, once they have been pinged. If they do not join the voice channel within that window, they are marked Absent and are no longer participants in that game. (Their game count is still increased as if they had played.)

If the number of present players is reduced below 4, the team may Emergency Backfill. ONLY other applicants to that game are eligible choices Emergency Backfill. If only one team applied, and Emergency Backfill is necessary, then non-applicant players may be accepted.

Backfills are chosen by whoever posted the submission for the team.

Player Sponsored runs
Player Sponsored runs guidelines The idea behind these runs would be to allow the players not in table games to forward their personal story with runs for the more complex bits of their backgrounds. These runs require approval from the plot team.


 * 1) Players must fill out a SideRP request form and Indicate this is a player sponsored run.
 * 2) The player must provide IC rewards for the team, the character must be able to cover these rewards. The GM handling the request will inform the player what the necessary cash deposit is to put out a “Job Post.” This is done through a Networking contact.
 * 3) If a player does not have the funds to cover the run they may put out a “distress call.” This comes with the understanding that anyone who helps with this run gains only karma rewards.
 * 4) GM will make a run proposal as normal, this run will be written using the request form for a guide the player may be as involved or not in this part of the process as they wish.
 * 5) Rewards must be approved by an admin or GM manager. These must make sense IC, doing a favor for an established friend is fine, but this must be made clear, and have IC reasons.
 * 6) The run may be posted as an oppo job, or the character may build a team, the character may play on said team or not, it is up to them. You may not do a combination of both you must do one or the other.
 * 7) These runs will count towards participation counts.
 * 8) Karma rewards will be determined by the GM.

Team Building
The Neon Jungle LC is encouraging building of teams for consistent teams. The purpose of this is to provide a narrative for teams that is harder to provide for groups that are not consistent. There are a few benefits of being on a team.
 * A team will be provided with an IC channel for players to interact IC with each other
 * A team will get a neat new role on the server
 * Teams will have a game count, any game the team as a whole applies to will use this count instead of the average of the players

Rules for building a team

 * 1) A team must consist of no less than 4 no more than 6 characters
 * 2) A team must be created before a season starts to gain the benefit of the game count
 * 3) A character may not be on more than one team
 * 4) A player may not have more than one character on the same team
 * 5) Teams must be submitted to an Admin for approval

Restrictions for teams

 * 1) A team is set for the season, in order to benefit for the team game count the team must be made before the start of the season.
 * 2) In the case of a team breaking up or a player leaving the server depending on the situation a team might be remade but this is subject to an Admin decision. Otherwise you may remake a team for the next season.
 * 3) If your team consists of less than 6 people you will be offered the chance to back fill if you are chosen for the game, if you chose to backfill the GM will back fill with a player from another team that applied with the lowest game #count.
 * 4) A team application MUST include all team members, ie. if one of your team can’t make a game you do not get to use the team game count.