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I have to say I am deeply unhappy with the way this was done. I had 4 events scheduled this past week and 3 out of 4 times the mustering was just terrible. Keep in mind for this I had actual tickets and not generics.
THURSDAY: Showed up 15 minutes early for muster at the "B" sign. Watched as groups were formed of people with generics ahead of us. Twenty minutes after we (my group of 3) were supposed to have started we were given a table in the overflow room with 1 other person. Didn't start playing for 10 minutes after that. We told we had to play up with just 4 people. Fine, whatever, we beat it and moved on.
FRIDAY: Showed up 15 minutes early, The person manning that sign was on the ball. We seated for the game on time and had a great time.
SATURDAY: Oh my.... still leery about the mustering, we went to "B" a 1/2 hour early and sat down in front of the door. Same guy as thursday was mustering. We told him right away we had tickets and what event were for. Long painful story short, we didn't get a table or DM until 8pm, and when we did we were tossed in Sagamore Hall C, the oveflow room of the overflow room. The DM we did finally get was seeing the module for the first time, and wasn't given time sheets, tokens, or the reporting sheet. Of course, he didn't realize this until the 5th encounter. We sent a player to grab those things from the main room and he said the staff seemed rather surprised there were tables going. Didn't finish that scenario til' 1am. Sadly, there was still a group who hadn't finished when we left. Also, never saw a single PFS official in Sagamore the entire night.
SUNDAY: At this point we assumed we were gonna get screwed again and while we started late it wasn't nearly as bad as the night before. Maybe a 1/2 hour before we actually started the scenario. At least we were in the main room this time
Basically, to define the new mustering system as chaotic is to insult the word chaotic. Josh Frost standing on a crate with a megaphone was far better this what we experienced, and alot more amusing to boot.
I suppose the biggest problem I had were the players who only had generics being seated at tables before the players who had actual tickets. I don't really blame those players. They just want tables and to play. But I paid for those tickets well ahead of time and I have the expectation that I would not be treated like a non-entity.
I know 3 billion will now come out of the woodwork saying it wasn't nearly that bad. Lemme tell ya. I'm not the only one who had a problem with this. Just because usual forum voices say it was great doesn't mean it was.
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There are still kinks, to be sure. Sadly, there are too many people to do it the same way Josh used to, and I wish that things had gone a bit more smoothly in the mustering stage. On Friday I was mustering site A, and while I did manage to seat all of my ticketed players, by the time they got done seating generics in overflow they'd still not reached my station yet, and a table of those players only got to play because another among them offered to run the Special cold.
Heck, Saturday I wound up losing my only real chance to play the entire convention because I felt I had to rescue the poor guy mustering the station I was at, since he was floundering and his father seemed to be brow-beating him and trying to take over the mustering job. I stepped in, helped seat people, and ended up giving up open spots that were offered to me more than once so I wouldn't have to leave the guy floundering again.
Ah, well. This is an evolving process, and hopefully it'll get better as we try to iron out the kinks. We just never get to see it in action until the actual conventions roll around.
