Cycle 1 complete

Friday finished up my first cycle of research for my Action Research project.  Now I am trying to sort through all of the data to measure whether the project was a success or failure.  Then hopefully I can tell what changes I need to make, so that I can begin cycle 2.  I know that there are things that will have to be done differently and perhaps even a whole different approach will be needed.  


I've had suggestions from participants that I should choose one person to be in the leadership role on a weekly basis versus a daily basis to get them more acclimated with the role, have them take a more in-depth look at the various primary and secondary professions before choosing, making sure that everyone has a microphone to be able to communicate verbally in the Ventrilo server, and having daily required discussions on the discussion boards.


I see many of these as very valid points.  It was hard to communicate with some participants when they only typed in the chat box versus verbally in the Ventrilo server.  It was also rough during the last couple of weeks of the project with one person in the group having to be the only healer on every quest/mission because the professions were not discussed and chosen before their creation by all participants. The discussion board suggestion is a hard one because I would have loved for them to communicate more in there, but I just couldn't seem to keep them interested or posting at all for that matter.  I don't know if requiring them to do it on a daily basis before playing or after playing would have helped or done more harm.  That is going to be a hard call.


Many if the participants would like to see the second cycle carried over into one of the other Guild Wars campaigns like Factions or Nightfalls instead of repeating Prophecies whole storyline again.  I can see the point of that as well because once you have completed it once you generally don't want to do it again.  There are many factors to consider and I will be deep in thought on what should be done to make this next cycle better.  If any of my critical friends or subscribers have any input or suggestions please let me know.