Hobby Golf Shame League
How's It Gone? / Is It A Competition?
We’re near the end of the first 3 months. Over this time we’ve found people had differing approaches to this.
For me it’s only a way of tracking my hobby pile and determining when I’ve done enough to justify buying more.
For others it’s been an active competition to see who can finish with the best score.
This has led to some frustration with the rules. Current criticisms include:
- the buy within 30 days penalty is a huge downer for someone who’s been waiting for a new set. Current opinion is we don’t suffer from FOMO much and you should have the freedom to buy one or two early purchases without penalty.
- also the 30 day penalty is especially oppressive for participants who don’t paint that much to the point that it’s effectively insurmountable.
- generally the buy within 30 days of release penalties are too heavy.
- equalise the penalties and bonuses for finishing boxes.
- add some kind of roll over so those with a huge score don’t get it cleared for the next round.
- should paint be added to hobby shame? Once we slowed on buying minis we started looking at buying more paint.
On the whole it’s been well received. Participants have still bought miniatures but their scores have acted as brake when they’re looking at new forces.
For myself I hadn’t planned many purchases till I played a demo of Star Wars Legion and bought all relevant minis in the shop. But I’ve been good since then. Only bought Yoda! Oh and Anakin. Got my score near 0 so I’m pretty pleased with myself
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