Hello!
I was away from the computer yesterday and so unable to answer anything until today, but I’m here now and ready to respond to questions, suggestions and complaints!
I’m starting on this board as it’s smaller than the one in Site Feedback. I had a quick read through the first 2 pages of that on my phone yesterday, but didn’t get any further than that and will be reading it in full after this.
Firstly, thank you for taking the time to give feedback. I am reading and listening to everything that is being said here, and will take it on board for future events, Peka-Boo II or otherwise.
The way Battle of the Bands was set up, was based on a model that I had taken part in and enjoyed elsewhere. Getting into teams in order to work together to achieve an end goal - with only one team walking away with prizes, but each team along the way enjoying the ride anyway. I had changed this model immediately with the intention to give prizes for a host of other things along the way, but it appears that it was not quite enough!
I am going to talk with my colleague and programmer about achievements and forum titles - that is something that can be done as it requires no extra art. We’ll take a look at the numbers of items that have gone out again, but distributing more at this point is going to make people that have already bought high priced items upset. I’ll have to decide if that is worth it, at this point.
This was a fledgling event, and was the first of its kind in doing things this way. I definitely expected there to be kinks! But we now have a really good basis to make this better in the future.