Myself, my 11yr old daughter, and her 11yr old friend are attending.
I'm the one with the credit card so I will buy 3 passes. But then how do I set things up so that we can all join the same events?
Can I give them each a ticket to their Paizo account? Will there be a way to add other accounts when you register for events?
Thanks.
Can I transfer tickets to the kids accounts?
Heya, the answer is a bit complicated, but here's how our system breaks down for this:
If they want to register for events in the Event Lottery, they will need to each have a PaizoCon 4-Day Badge on their own account (these can be transferred from your My E-Tickets page). The Event Lottery has a buddy system for up to 2 people to be linked up for events they select. The Event Lottery buddy system doesn't allow for groups larger than 2 to sign up together (this is a policy that we have in place because of the demand for some of the seats in higher profile lottery events). However, event trading occurs after the lottery is run if the third person is looking for an open seat. It's also possible that there may be an open seat if not enough people signed up for an event.
If both girls are going to be getting Kid's Badges (which would need to be transferred to their accounts from the My E-Tickets page still), they are not eligible for the Event Lottery process and can sign up to events when open registration begins. There is no buddy system for open registration, so all 3 of you would be looking at the schedule based on the number of open seats.
Gotcha, understood.
For my situation, both girls are too old for kids badges, so I will get them two regular badges and transfer them to their accounts.
The lottery isn't as important to us as getting at the same tables for a continuing PFS adventure (parts 1, 2 and 3). So I'll just open up three browsers to select events.
My wife (mikaelav) and I are already buddied up, but when we are looking at the Events together, SHE can sign up for events, but *I* can not. It looks like we can both still rate lottery events from 0 to 5. I'm going to see if I can hash a print-out of what MUST ATTEND events may happen during lottery games, so I can be sure to put those at 0 and go for the seminars and such I want instead. But I'd like to understand why she gets "event pick" buttons, but my screen still says "closed" on the same items.
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@Kalsia, I had the same problem working nights two years ago, and we declined PaizoCon because I couldn't get discounted tickets for "a day". They have the event lottery system and so many things going on that trying to let people get a "day ticket" while PREVENTING them from selecting events they don't have tickets for would be ... messy, I would think. I can easily see someone buying a Saturday ticket, then posting for events they simply can't attend. They wouldn't necessarily have to be dishonest, just HORRIBLY confused. I can so see that happening. If there is only one ticket for the entire four day event, the process is simple and everything is covered. The Event selection process is confusing at best anyway without throwing "tickets for a day" into the mix, in my opinion.
My hope is to see you there anyway. Look for the ferret with a Washington baseball cap and eyeglasses. ;-)
And LORDY how I wish we had a PDF copy of the block schedule times the way they did at the PaizoCon handbook so we could quickly look at the block chart day-by-day to see the schedule options. I'll... muddle through, picking the "MUST GO" seminars first... looks like the buttons switched back on, which is a HUGE help! :)
It looks like some Friday morning games aer "Signup not yet open", and some things I signed up for report "signup not yet open" although I show already signed up. It would appear there are still odd things in the system, but I'm wading my way there. :)
I also used Google Calendar which lets me squeeze in overlapping events so I have picked which ones are top priority and which ones I'll go to if I can't get my original picks. I am then using print-outs from that calendar to set my wife's picks up. It isn't quite the .PDF block schedule, but since I'm able to put in the G+ calendar ONLY events I'm interested in, I have less to have to sort through making the process easier.
I hope this tip helps!