Board Thread:Season Offers/@comment-24046040-20141231090619

Season name: Survivor: Java Number of players: To contrast the large number of players seen for the last few seasons which varied from 20 to 25 players, we will have only 16 contestants in an attempt of having a rather intimate season. As much as I love the idea of having returnees I think it may cause drama since picking 2/3/4 particulars to participate is tricky and people could be upset about the picks. Tribes: There will be two tribes, Malasan (orange) and Jember (Cyan)

Twists:
 * Hidden Immunity Idols: Once again hidden immunity idols are pack to play, however there will be only one immunity idol per tribe. The hidden immunity idols will be effective until the final five.


 * Starting Bang/Trek/Call it whatever you want I do not consider this a switch but more a way to pay a tribute to the real show: Survivor. In nearly all seasons the castaways start with a huge twist or trek they have to face that in most occasions gives the message: This is real, this is happening. From something as simple as going in a raft to their beaches or finding themselves without tribes going through the tribal initiation at Vanuatu or the buddhist welcome after climbing up the stair to the temple on China, they have been there an adventurous start, we have adapted these in the ORG by first impressions, fake tribes or having a challenge right away, however we struggle to create the idea of traveling like in the real show. I inspired myself on the long trek of Survivor: Guatemala and what Mark Burnett had originally planned for Season 4 (I will explain bellow):

Season 4 of the real show was planned to be set in Arabia and the castaways were originally intended to freight hop into a train and then ride some camels to their camps. I adapted this to a 'live challenge' that will happen 24 hours after the season cast is revealed. The tribes will not be revealed until this 'live challenge' happens blocking the chances of the tribes planning what to do in the trek. Four members will have to hop into the train and help up the other four remaining members (this is since its a live challenge it could be unfair if we made all 16 castaways hop since some would be sleeping when the challenge starts). As soon each tribe has its members in the train the hosts will give out a clue to where they have to jump out of the train. If their guesses are wrong they'll be given a time penalty. After this to represent the camel ride there will be elephants, which are indeed used as a transport in Indonesia. They will face a set of challenges, puzzles and clues through the final stretch of the `challenge`, the first tribe to reach their camps will receive a reward that won't be revealed until they reach their camp.

This will not only pay a tribute to the real show but will also help the castaways get a feeling of their tribe and see who will be a dead weight and who has positive attributes that can help in the future, this may also help a "tribe leader" to emerge which can help the tribe be very strong or be an epic fail that is fun to watch.


 * No Tribe Swap: Without counting Heroes vs. Villains, since having no tribe swap was an unwritten twist, there has been tribe swaps and tribe absorptions since Nepal, back at season 6.

Changes:
 * Applications: Since the recent sockpuppetry incident at Season 19, no applicants that are joining "through a friend/familiar" will be selected unless we are given a real facebook account through where we can have a short talk with him/her to prove they truly are applying. If we still suspect about them being a sockpuppet we will plainly not cast them. If we suspect about other applicants we will also ask them for their facebook or Skype through which we will have a talk with them. This process will be necessary and we can promise the applicants that if we indeed have to contact them through a personal account that the personal account will be kept secret and as soon we have finished talking to you that we will not contact it again unless critically needed.
 * Also since the season will only have sixteen players, we will have an "interview" with the applicants through either Skype or Facebook. This will be done to get to know the potential players better and begin to predict who could make the game more interesting. Through this strict process we can guarantee a good overall cast.
 * Improvement in challenges: Challenges will be picked to match the theme. Something that personally annoys me is when you are in a season set in Africa for example, and have to play Winterbells. Or when you are in generally any season and you have to play "Robot Unicorn Attack". The hosts will pick challenges that are island or nature inspired or simply puzzles to create a more realistic impression of the game. This will also involve creating brand new challenges inspired by challenges from the actual show. Challenges such as "Bear it up" or a Maze can be easily adapted to an online challenge.

Changes on the bid: No Exile Island: I did not realise until I checked the replies on the thread that Exile Island had been overused lately and I must agree that when you use a twist too much, even if it’s the best twist or whatever, people will end up hating it. The mutiny in exile would also be removed with it, it can wait for another season (or not), I am not making something freaky to include it like the mutiny idol or something like that. Changes in “live” challenges/development in the improvement of challenges mentioned previously: I realised that you can make obstacle coarse like challenges like in the real show easily, however the thing about them is that they would need to be live and not always people can afford that. That’s why I figured a way to make them be more fair, we use inactive wikias we private message the link to the tribe/castaway so they can complete the challenge, starting whenever they want, and we time them how long they take. Let’s take as an example the first immunity challenge at the real show’s Heroes vs Villains, the tribe is given the pieces of the boat divided in for example 6 different images they have to post in order in a thread. If they get it wrong they have to start again. Then they have to make a “Quest for Fire” style post where for example 3 people have to row to retrieve the puzzles, then we link them to the puzzle they must complete and as soon as they are done a castaway has to post the screenshot of the completed puzzle in the thread. We would time how long this takes the tribe/castaway and then the tribe/castaway that did it on less time wins. This type of challenge added to the the themed flash games could really make players have a fun time and not having to wake at 4 am to post or anything like that.

''Note from the bidder: I was shocked how many supports my bid got, I read every comment and took note and did everything I could do please most people and added some improvements I came up during bidding. I also saw that some people didn’t enjoy the idea of a small cast but I gotta say sorry to them because my idea is centred on the small cast. Also something that ticked me off was Brendan saying it would be Turkey 2.0, sorry but last time I checked there was also another season with 16 contestants in this wikia and it was pretty good, how good a season is does not depend on the number of players but how good the host’s casting skills are and I, if you ask me, will do anything in my hands to get people that will be interested in playing and will have fun doing so. So yeah, my aim if this season is chosen is to try and get the best cast possible and have challenges that both players and viewers will enjoy. Anyways, Merry Christmas to y’all and happy new year!''  