Vote Thread for Ack's Omake Corner

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The real problem with voting for underdog stories is that it's now a zero-sum game. Ack is going to drop the story with the lowest vote count each round until the number of stories he's actively working on is manageable, so the best most of the underdogs can hope for is to squeeze in one more update before dropping off the voting list, like Nemesis did for this round. MirrorVerse was one of the stories where that was a possibility, but voters were more focused on helping Bait & Switch and Junior Hero persist for a few more rounds.

If you want to help Ack's less popular stories get one last update before going on hiatus for who knows how long you should focus on NSW and All Alone. They both have low enough averages to be in danger, but have high enough totals that it's possible for them to win in a few rounds.

 

Based on the votes so far this round, if the cutoff was 'as of this vote, these top ten stay, the rest are gone', the survivors would be...

I, Panacea
Recoil
Trump Card
Alea Iacta Est
Wyvern
Hostage Situation
NSW
Confrontation II
Meet the Heberts
War Games

But all but the last two, Junior Hero and Bait & Switch, are within a few 'six' votes of jumping into the top ten. So it's kinda a tossup on which ones will make the cut over the next several votes. A key voter might be out of town for a week that Ack has a 3-5 day turnaround, and a different story lands up getting dropped.

 

Can you use your spare votes to spare the NSFW stories?

 

Nah.

 

[X] Slippery Slope - 6
[X] Trump Card - 5
[X] War Games - 4
[X] Wyvern - 3
[X] Recoil - 2
[X] Hostage Situation - 1

 

[X] NSW - 6
[X] Meet the Heberts - 5
[X] Danny & Taylor - 4
[X] Recoil - 3
[X] One More Trigger - 2
[X] Trump Card - 1

 

[X] Hostage Situation - 1
[X] I, Panacea - 2
[X] Trump Card - 3
[X] Wyvern - 4
[X] One More Trigger - 5
[X] Alea Iacta Est - 6

 

On one of them, maybe (leaving 'free' slots is intended for the purpose of not adding to the total number of votes for fics other than the one I most want to see more of, so I'm a bit reluctant). Which ones are you most interested in (because there are some I'd rather not see more of)?

 

[X] NSW - 1
[X] Hostage Situation - 2
[X] Wyvern - 3
[X] I, Panacea - 4
[X] Recoil - 5
[X] Slippery Slope - 6

 

Spoiler: My response

 

[X] Slippery Slope - 6
[X] Recoil - 5
[X] One More Trigger - 4
[X] I, Panacea - 3
[X] Trump Card - 2

 

Danny & Taylor or NSW.

edit: or Meet the Heberts.

 

Ah!! I missed a vote....what have I done!!

[X] I, Panacea - 6
[X] Nemesis - 5
[X] Trump Card - 4
[X] Wyvern - 3
[X] Hostage Situation - 2
[X] Alea Iacta Est - 1

Thank you O Spectacular Ack, for all that you do for us - your fans

 

6th vote is up for trade for Recoil.

 

As always, heavily based on my previous vote - with some NSFW story saving this time as well...

[] I'm Halping - 14
[] The Great Tattletale Caper - 13
[] Entanglement - 12
[] It Gets Worse - 11
[] Price of Blood - 10
[] One Bad Day - 9
[] Greg Veder, Conquering Hero - 8
[] MirrorVerse - 7 (sorry Anaja, didn't realize it in time)
[X] One More Trigger - 6
[X] Hostage Situation - 5
[X] Danny & Taylor - 4
[X] Confrontation II - 3
[X] Meet the Heberts - 2
[X] Junior Hero - 1
[] Alea Iacta Est - 0
[] I, Panacea - 0
[] Trump Card - 0 (and for the record, yes, I'm Russian)
[] War Games - 0
[] Wyvern - 0

Not particularly interested in most of the rest, sorry - Recoil and Slippery Slope especially.
(For most of the others I just don't recall what they're about. What were Nemesis and Bait & Switch about again?)

Anaja - I'll put your trade back if you actually vote this round (you don't seem to have voted in the last round, somewhat unfortunately for your favorite story) and I manage to notice it before the round ends (though if you prefer me to keep my current 2 point vote, I'd happily do that).

And for the record, again, no, I didn't expect MirrorVerse to disappear as early as this round either.
(Though in a hilarious way it did make my old prediction come true yet again - MirrorVerse couldn't win, so it lost instead! Doesn't look like Recoil is winning this round though, so not a 7/7 result, unfortunately. And no, I'm not voting for Recoil just for the sake of that old prediction, and it probably won't be enough anyway.)

...basically just about every single SFW fic I like, minus One More Trigger (which I'm already doing my best to keep), plus Recoil (which is hardly going to disappear, but looks like the best candidate to quickly finish and leave space for other stuff), and with some weird results on the NSFW side (now that I know what Danny & Taylor is, I want to keep that one).

 

[X] Alea Iacta Est - 6
[X] NSW - 5

 

You don't want to just give 6 points to Recoil yourself? Starting your vote at 5 currently...

(looks like you just copied and pasted your previous vote, removing MirrorVerse from the 6 slot)

 

[X] One More Trigger - 6
[X] Confrontation II - 5
[X] I, Panacea - 4

 

[X] Recoil - 6
[X] I, Panacea - 5
[X] Wyvern- 4
[X] War Games- 3
[X] Junior Hero - 2
[X] Meet the Heberts - 1

 

[X] All Alone - 6
[X] One More Trigger - 5

Wasn't getting updates for this thread until you tagged me here. Assumed this was just being a long wait for the update, and ended up missing the entire last round.
Since I'm redoing my whole voting list now, what would be your preferred vote trade?

Now that makes me sad. MirrorVerse would have been saved for at least another round if I had voted.

Hey Ack, any word on which of your stories are closest to being finished?

 

[X] Recoil - 6
[X] Alea Iacta Est - 5
[X] I, Panacea - 4
[X] Wyvern - 3
[X] All Alone - 2
[X] Hostage Situation - 1

 

Not really sure; One More Trigger is still my favorite, and apparently the most likely "popular" story to lose, but there's not much space for you to put it any higher, anyway.
I actually tagged you in my previous vote too, incidentally - not sure why you didn't notice that (maybe because it was a copy made from a quote, as opposed to a freshly written tag, and this made the forums ignore it).

Or if I chose literally anything other than Junior Hero as the replacement when Really Bad End went away.
Very sorry either way. But it was so out of the blue that neither of us could have realistically expected it, admittedly.

 

[X] Recoil - 6
[X] I, Panacea - 5
[X] Trump Card - 4
[X] Confrontation II - 3
[X] Wyvern - 2
[X] Alea Iacta Est - 1

 

Well, that was a nice surprise. I'll need to go back and find that post where someone made a bet with me about when Nemesis would update. I vaguely remember calling April?

[X] Nemesis - 6
[X] NSW - 5
[X] Wyvern - 4
[X] War Games - 3
[X] Trump Card - 2
[X] Confrontation II - 1

 

Pretty sure that was me, that you didn't believe it would be before April, while I figured it would be double tapping rather shortly. So, somewhere inbetween

 

Yeah, not sure what exactly happened there.

I'm not sure if those are going to stay in those places. It's just that All Alone and One More Trigger are the most likely to stay on my standard voting list. It might go up or down. I could lock it in if you want to suggest an offer.

 

[X] War Games - 6
[X] Junior Hero - 5
[X] I, Panacea - 4
[X] Recoil - 3
[X] Alea Iacta Est - 2
[X] All Alone - 1

 

[X] Recoil - 6
[X] Trump Card - 5
[X] Meet the Heberts - 4
[X] NSW - 3
[X] One More Trigger - 2
[X] Danny & Taylor - 1
[_] All Alone - 0
[!!] It Gets Worse - Baker's Dozen
[!!] Greg Veder, Conquering Hero - A Handful

 

[X] Wyvern - 6
[X] I, Panacea - 5
[X] Trump Card - 4
[X] One More Trigger - 3
[X] Recoil - 2
[X] Alea Iacta Est - 1