The shutdown...a great time to revamp things?
Lost In Ohio
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What I'd wish they'd do:
Number one:
Whatever the equivalent of a "defrag" is for membership numbers. If someone is 299XXX, there's obviously a LOT of empty numbers lower than theirs. Why not move everyone up?
If 2,000 people are in line to ride a rollercoaster and 10 people drop out, you're no longer 2,000 in line, are you?
My 279xxx from 2003....I wouldn't be surprised if it's lower than 250k. A lot of people sign up for tours. I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of people temporarily dropped out around 2010-2013 when things got relatively quiet.
Number two:
When it comes to seated tickets, let people choose their own seats based on seniority. When it comes time to buy tickets, the first thousand or so get to go first...for all shows. Two tickets per show, seats or GA. Nothing changes there.
But, if you choose seats, you should be able to select your seats off a map. Want aisle seats? There ya go. Stone's side? Done.
Nothing regarding membership senority would change. Member 12924 would still have much better seats than 299019.
But...one advantage? If husband and wife wanted four tickets side by side, that could easily happen...the member with 12,924 would need to wait until 299,019 became eligible. At this point, they'd both go on the map, select their seats and they'd get four seats together.
It'd be the same with a group wanting 8, 10, 12 or however-many tickets. They'd wait until the window opened for everyone.
I'll admit the downside would be that the member since 1999 would take a huge "hit for the team" to sit with others who joined in 2006, 2009 and 2014, but it's the trade-off.
Number one:
Whatever the equivalent of a "defrag" is for membership numbers. If someone is 299XXX, there's obviously a LOT of empty numbers lower than theirs. Why not move everyone up?
If 2,000 people are in line to ride a rollercoaster and 10 people drop out, you're no longer 2,000 in line, are you?
My 279xxx from 2003....I wouldn't be surprised if it's lower than 250k. A lot of people sign up for tours. I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of people temporarily dropped out around 2010-2013 when things got relatively quiet.
Number two:
When it comes to seated tickets, let people choose their own seats based on seniority. When it comes time to buy tickets, the first thousand or so get to go first...for all shows. Two tickets per show, seats or GA. Nothing changes there.
But, if you choose seats, you should be able to select your seats off a map. Want aisle seats? There ya go. Stone's side? Done.
Nothing regarding membership senority would change. Member 12924 would still have much better seats than 299019.
But...one advantage? If husband and wife wanted four tickets side by side, that could easily happen...the member with 12,924 would need to wait until 299,019 became eligible. At this point, they'd both go on the map, select their seats and they'd get four seats together.
It'd be the same with a group wanting 8, 10, 12 or however-many tickets. They'd wait until the window opened for everyone.
I'll admit the downside would be that the member since 1999 would take a huge "hit for the team" to sit with others who joined in 2006, 2009 and 2014, but it's the trade-off.
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I think Tim said there's around 200k-300k active at any given time. Obviously, a lot of people (and scalpers) will join up for the tour. I know I certainly could have quit between 2004-2009 and only missed some records and maybe a few shirts...but I hung in there and it paid off.
The 2003 tour was the weird one. We were all assigned to blocks, but the earlier tickets were picked up, the better the seats within that block. I got to the window probably later on...and I'm sure my seats could have been a bit better.
Yeah, I agree. It's not going to happen, but it'd be nice.
With Ticketmaster taking over and tickets being digital, who knows?
I did a shitastic job of explaining it prior. Here's a better rendition:
GA should certainly be random...no disagreement there. What I meant (and did a terrible job explaining) is that if someone wins seats based on the current system...they go on to a seat selection page later and select exact seats. You'd still select pit or GA, but if you win seats, there'd be a "Seat Selection Phase."
If you miss your window, you can still select.
In a very rough example:
Monday:
12pm - Members 1-100,000 begin eligibility to select their exact seats for all shows they won seats for.
5pm - Members 100,001-200,000 begin eligibility.
Tuesday:
12pm - Members 200,001-300,000...
5pm - Members 300,001-400,000...
Wednesday:
12pm - Members 400,000-600,000...
5pm - 600,000 and up.
If someone wanted to sit in a block with family friends, they'd need to wait until their entire group was eligible.
Of course, if 10C reassigned numbers (while keeping everyone in the same order), the timeslots to pick seats could change, as the highest number wouldn't be above 400k.
Maybe there'd even be another 25k every 30 or 60 minutes.
Hypothetically:
I enter for pit and seats for Cleveland, Detroit and Pittsburgh using the same system in place since 2013.
I win seats for Cleveland. I win pit for Detroit.
Detroit, I do nothing. I simply show up the day of the show, the same as it's been.
I'd be eligible to select seats for Cleveland starting at noon on Tuesday. If I wanted to sit next to a friend who just joined, I'd have to wait until 5pm Wednesday. We'd go on together (using our own accounts) and then select whatever seats.
But we'd have four together.
Oh, and Pittsburgh? I'd have to wait until the general sale or decide I'm happy with two shows.