"Defining Success" Topic

Choosing any stage other than the first is nonsensical.

I guess I need to apologize for not having fun the right way again.

I guess I also need to point out again that "none of these" and "no opinion" are two different answers.

Etotheipi, I've tried making the second point before, and been ignored.

I tend to agree with Flashman, but I set up the poll because there obviously was disagreement. And in fairnesss, for the non-solo player, you can do everything right and still never achieve Stage 1 for lack of opponents. I find myself less and less interested in measures of success which require someone else's cooperation.

Did you have fun while doing the project. Then it was a success.

If it's fun and if your figs make it onto the table, no matter if it the right period, it's a success

I voted for This is Ridiculous.
Harrumph.

In the poll, I brought up something simliar to Micman. I would have liked to see something like that in the options.

As far as no agreement, I agree. I don't have a problem with different people gaving different definitions of success.

Even in a team project. If you commit to a project, you have a moral obligation to complete your part and others have an obligation to consider extenuating circumstances in changing the group obligation.

That still doesn't mean everyone has to have the same success criteria. In fact, group projects often go better when people have success criteria greater than their group obligation.

None of that gives me the right to enforce my criteria on someone else in a volunatary hobby activity.

As far as depending on someone else, if that's your thing, have at it. Sometimes my projects include that, sometimes they don't. An optional success criterion for most of my projects is that someone else wants to co-opt the idea.

My carefully researching what I want to get, placing the order and then, after gazing lovingly at all the beautiful things, carefully storing the whole lot against the coming apocalypse doesn't seem to feature on the list.

I have completed dozens of such fine projects….