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Hello,

I submitted an issue that a number of players loved months ago during the "Dark Ages" (time when no new issues were being accepted). While I understand it is the policy to not explain what is wrong with issues, I thought for certain that my issue would have warranted some sort of reply (based on comments from this forum).

What is the policy on resubmitting issues?

I'd like to resubmit mine, as I'm afraid it was deleted as part of a flushing process.

My next post is a copy of the issue ...

Name:
Women’s College Sports Programs Are Under Funded

Description:
@@NAME@@ parents and college students are up in arms over what they consider the state of women’s collegiate athletic programs. “Public universities are spending billions of @@CURRENCY@@ collegiate sports programs, but only a small fraction of this money ever makes it into women’s collegiate sports programs. This is gender based discrimination, pure and simple.”

Options:
[option] “We aren’t asking for the elimination of the male sports programs, just equal funding for sports like women’s football, basket, tennis, hockey, gymnastics, volleyball, and softball,” demanded former Olympic medallist @@RANDOMNAME@@. “We could share training facilities and fields, but we shouldn’t be treated like second class citizens.”
[effect]men’s college football games are often blacked out for coverage of women’s collegiate volleyball matches,
[stats]

[option] “Men’s collegiate sport programs like football, basketball, and hockey draw in more money to the schools than they cost,” explained @@NAME@@ University head coach @@RANDOMNAME@@. “Without men’s sports to help defray the costs of education, @@NAME@@ schools would fall behind the better funded schools in other countries.”
[effect]sports bars pop up around all college campuses,
[stats]

[option] College freshman @@RANDOMNAME@@ suggested, “Well, if they allowed women on the men’s teams, maybe it wouldn’t matter which sports are funded and which ones aren’t. Of course we’d have to have new rules and quotas in order to ensure equal access for these new sports. My vote is for co-educational mud wrestling!”
[effect]young girls long to get the much coveted mud wrestling scholarships,
[stats]

[option] “I know a way to find equal funding to collegiate sports programs, let’s cut funding to all of these programs!” answered back head of the College of Science at @@NAME@@ University. “Think of all the extra money that could be used buying my students more chemistry playsets!”
[effect]the frequency of accidental fires in university chemistry buildings increases ten-fold,
[stats]

Ooh, that's good! Be interesting to see what the stats were. Presumably the final option results in a decrease in happiness... except amongst pyromaniacs and geeks, of course*.

*hmmm, lots of smiles from NSers?

Here are the stats I *think* I used ... I could have done some last minute tweaking, since I didn't have these saved in my issues folder with my gender equality issue (I'm reposting the entire thing to make it easier to read):

Name:
Women’s College Sports Programs Are Under Funded

Description:
@@NAME@@ parents and college students are up in arms over what they consider the state of women’s collegiate athletic programs. “Public universities are spending billions of @@CURRENCY@@ collegiate sports programs, but only a small fraction of this money ever makes it into women’s collegiate sports programs. This is gender based discrimination, pure and simple.”

Options:
[option] “We aren’t asking for the elimination of the male sports programs, just equal funding for sports like women’s football, basket, tennis, hockey, gymnastics, volleyball, and softball,” demanded former Olympic medallist @@RANDOMNAME@@. “We could share training facilities and fields, but we shouldn’t be treated like second class citizens.”
[effect] men’s college football games are often blacked out for coverage of women’s collegiate volleyball matches,
[stats] civil freedoms increase significantly, fitness increases slightly, taxes increase slightly

[option] “Men’s collegiate sport programs like football, basketball, and hockey draw in more money to the schools than they cost,” explained @@NAME@@ University head coach @@RANDOMNAME@@. “Without men’s sports to help defray the costs of education, @@NAME@@ schools would fall behind the better funded schools in other countries.”
[effect] sports bars pop up around all college campuses,
[stats] civil freedoms decrease slightly, economy improves slightly, fitness increases significantly

[option] College freshman @@RANDOMNAME@@ suggested, “Well, if they allowed women on the men’s teams, maybe it wouldn’t matter which sports are funded and which ones aren’t. Of course we’d have to have new rules and quotas in order to ensure equal access for these new sports. My vote is for co-educational mud wrestling!”
[effect] young girls long to get the much coveted mud wrestling scholarships,
[stats] civil freedoms increase slightly, devoutness goes down slightly

[option] “I know a way to find equal funding to collegiate sports programs, let’s cut funding to all of these programs!” answered back head of the College of Science at @@NAME@@ University. “Think of all the extra money that could be used buying my students more chemistry playsets!”
[effect] the frequency of accidental fires in university chemistry buildings increases ten-fold,
[stats] apathy increases slightly, fitness decreases significantly, education becomes a government priority

It's fine to resubmit issues. Just try to work out why it was rejected in the first place before you do so.

Of course it would be evil for Sirocco to say why is wan't used. Anyway, the first two people sound normal. Turn one into a lunatic and the other into an evil businessman.

The originaly issue can be found at http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=353296 .

It's fine to resubmit issues. Just try to work out why it was rejected in the first place before you do so.

Thanks.

I'll naturally think about this one, and see if I can trim it down some, but HINTS and HELP from anybody is completely welcomed! :)

For the last option, I'd recommend a decrease in happiness rather than an increase in apathy. And perhaps an extra degree of lunacy wouldn't go amiss...

For the last option, I'd recommend a decrease in happiness rather than an increase in apathy. And perhaps an extra degree of lunacy wouldn't go amiss...

That is a great idea.

I was also thinking the [effect] for some of the options seems too long, and wanted to shrink them. :)

Regarding 'lunacy', for the last option you could do something along the lines of: "...answered back head of the College of Science at @@NAME@@ University, while << insert stereotypical mad scientist behaviour here >> ..."