Fun Trivia success: It's not just the points...
Wow! I even impress myself! (I know, I know, I'm a liter or 2 short on the humility thing). Anyway, first blog, first day, and now, second entry! Whee...this is fun.
I'd like to pass on a tip that I learned in the beginning with Fun Trivia, and it's worked wonderfully for me; and might possibly be helpful to someone else who's fairly new, and maybe feeling "point challenged"? If so, read on-
Having been a person in the past that went absolutely nuts over early online games, cribbage mainly, I wanted to see if I could really enjoy Fun Trivia (from now on FT) and not get caught up in power trips. So what I did was set some goals I thought might be reasonable to work towards in standings. I also decided I wanted the overriding goal to be to have fun!
First, I set no point goals. Not then, not now. By the way, I'm with class #113, joined FT in April 2007. My initial goals were to make it into the top 100 in my class, and the top 1000 in the world. I don't remember when I achieved either goal, but eventually I did and when that happened, I revised my goals.
On the worldwide goal, I'm working on someday making it to the top 100. And for my class, I revised that from the top 100, to the top 10. The worldwide goal is still in front of me; and will be for quite sometime. Right now, I think I'm about 309 worldwide. On the class goal for top ten- that's been achieved for a while now. I'm currently sitting in 4th spot in our class. So, the goal has been realized, and I'm happy with that. Knowing the "heavy hitters" in my class somewhat; I have no designs on getting any closer to #1 in the class.
It all might sound a bit contridictory coming from a player with more than a million points, but it really is true. Sure, I play quite a bit, but the points aren't the point, if you get me. It's the play, the learning, the friends, and the new friends to come that make it worthwhile to me. I hope some of this might be helpful, as it comes from someone who was level one once!
Have a great day! :-)
9 Comments:
Well, that's excellent that you set those goals and reached them so quickly! I joined in Nov. 2007, but I'm not competitive with the games. I just enjoy playing quizzes on topics I like. Some of the badges I did work for, but those were fun and not painful (except, maybe, "Best in Class").
It's neat to hear from a "heavy hitter" though. I'll be checking out your blog often!
By Pagiedamon, Nov 30 08 4:43 PM
I think you are getting the hang of blogging.You are right,it isn't just the points.I have met some great people on FT and made new friends,I am more happy about that than I am about having a million points.
Keep blogging.
By Joybaby, Nov 30 08 4:44 PM
Congrats on your rank accomplishments and keep up the good work. It's always nice to see newer people to the site rise quickly.
Paige, Best in Class was a painful badge for me too. I have a lot of really dedicated players in my class so I had to play steadily for like ten hours to win it.
By kitkat121080, Nov 30 08 5:09 PM
I struggle to hold me 3 position in my class, there is no way I can go higher the folks in front of me are extending their lead as I blog. The blogging is more fun, power to you. Garry
By garrysouders, Nov 30 08 5:23 PM
Many thanks to all of you: Paige, JoyB, Kitkat and Garry. You all made my day by stopping and sharing.
Namaste, ara
By ara_6007, Nov 30 08 5:46 PM
Aloha Bill,
Nice to hear about your sharing on the point collecting quest. Now my goal is to make it to 2.5 million FT points.
By Matthew_07, Nov 30 08 9:26 PM
Thanks for stopping by and saying hi Matt. I think it won't be long until you reach your 2.5 million goal. You're a great team leader too! :-)
By ara_6007, Nov 30 08 10:54 PM
Hi, ara...Just wanted to stop by your blog, as you were so kind to stop by mine and respond.
You're right when you say that the points aren't the biggest deal here on FunTrivia. Until the last couple months, I had actually earned more badges for writing quizzes than playing them. From the personal standpoint, I'm much more proud of my accomplishments as a quiz writer. And I'm proud of the fact that I've managed to gather a small but loyal following among blog readers.
You do a good job, ara. It's good to know you, and I look forward to reading more from you.
By cag1970, Dec 11 08 4:07 PM
Thank you Cag! Sorry to have missed your note until now (probably because I was so busy responding to your sports post lol.) With your writing example in mind, I just might stop procrastinating on doing my third quiz on Joseph Heller's modern classic, "Catch-22". But then again, there's something to said for procrastinating too!
By ara_6007, Dec 13 08 6:41 PM