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--- faqs [2022/08/03 19:35] – katie
+++ faqs [2023/10/24 10:17] (current) – anna
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-**Q: What is included in my ticket?  Why is it £100?**
+**Q: What is included in my ticket?  Why is it £80?**
-A: The Player Price covers:
+A: The price of the Player Ticket covers:
-  * Venue hire and insurance
+  * Access to the site
-  * Full catering over the course of the event (meals included in your ticket!)
+  * Funding the many props and costumes we use across the weekend
-  * The cost of creating props and costume for all of the plot we would like to run
+  * Enabling us to buy tents that can be used to provide more areas and facets to the game
-  * Purchasing of additional tents to provide further game opportunities
+  * Enabling us to hire a van to transport the game to the site
-  * The cost of us transporting all of the game’s elements to the site
+  * Offsetting the cost for Crew so we can bring more to the game
-  * The cost of us owning as much kit as possible to costume our crew without cost to them
-  * Offsetting catering cost for our crew
-The Crew price is a simple contribution toward the cost of catering (meals included in the ticket).
+We have set these prices based on our actual expenditure from Event 5, factoring in increasing costs of food, fuel, ink, and other resources we need to create the best game experience we can.  We compared against similar LARPs and found that many have tickets in the £75-100 region not covering catering.  We want to be up front about what we're providing, the number of props we create as a small team, the easy-entry LARP experience we want to provide to players and crew, the quantity of content, and our ability to maintain the quality of game and plot we love, we feel these prices are fair.
-We have set these prices based on our actual expenditure from Event 3, factoring in increasing costs of food, fuel, ink, and other resources we need to create the best game experience we can.  We compared against similar LARPs and found that many have tickets in the £60-80 region but do not cover catering at all, meaning the actual price passed on to attendees is in the £100-125 region.  We want to be up front about what we're providing, and between the fully catered experience, the number of props we create as a small team, the easy-entry LARP experience we want to provide to players and crew, and our ability to maintain the quality of game and plot we love, we feel these prices are fair.
+We recognise that rising LARP prices do present a challenge to many people, so we also offer [[Policies#Concessions]] to £50 for players and payment plans in order to remain accessible.
-We recognise that rising LARP prices do present a challenge to many people, so we also offer [[Policies#Concessions]] to £80 for players (comparable with a £50 LARP ticket that does not include food) and payment plans in order to remain accessible.
+Combined with a £30 Meal Ticket, altogether the fully inclusive cost of the weekend in 2024 is expected to be £110 (£80 Concession) which is an increase of £10 over 2023 but is representative of the increased costs of hiring a venue and a van -- two fundamentally essential parts of running our events.
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+**Q: Why are Meal Tickets being sold separately?**
+A: We are following the lead of other comparable LARP Events by separating the cost of food and the cost of the event.  Aside from improving the organisation of our event budget and expenditure (enabling us to more accurately predict our costs across the year), this also means that attendees have more visbility on the costs of running the event itself, and also provide the opportunity to choose to acquire food elsewhere (which given the proximity of the town of Kinver itself to the site is more possible at our current site).
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+**Q: Why is catering no longer included for Crew?**
+A: When we started running //Tales Untold// in 2019 and when we increased our prices for 2022/23 we had a smaller Crew and we optimistically wanted to try to cover food for Crew in some part with the ticket costs from Players to about 50%.  Heading into 2024 we have a larger crewbase which is wonderful, but also it is no longer viable to subsidise catering for Crew without taking a not insignificant loss with our other rising prices.  If this will be a barrier to anyone who would like to come and crew though, please do get in touch with us and we can see what we can do to help out.
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 **Q: I have restricted mobility - is the site accessible for me?**\\
-A: The site we have for Event 4 is [[https://www.scoutshw.org.uk/kinver-scout-camp|Kinver Scout Camp]], which is a scout campsite in the woods in Staffordshire/Worcestershire. The site has attempted to be wheelchair accessible and all areas we are intending to use for gameplay have step-free access.  There are wheelchair accessible toilets and showers in the main block as well.  If you have questions or concerns about accessibility please contact us at [[talesuntold.larp@gmail.com]].
+A: The site we have for Events 4-7 is [[https://www.scoutshw.org.uk/kinver-scout-camp|Kinver Scout Camp]], which is a scout campsite in the woods in Staffordshire/Worcestershire. The site has attempted to be wheelchair accessible and all areas we are intending to use for gameplay have step-free access. There are wheelchair accessible toilets and showers in the main block as well. If you have questions or concerns about accessibility please contact us at [[talesuntold.larp@gmail.com]].
+The main area of site we use for IC gameplay ("Camelot") is reasonably flat and is accessed up a hill with a gentle slope.  The walk between OC Camping / Cabins and Camelot is around 5 minutes.  The walk between Camelot and the toilets is 1-2 minutes, including access to the wheelchair accessible toilet.
+We operate Vignettes as strictly non-combat linears on a reasonably flat area directly next to the main camp.  Quests will have Combat and take place in a wider area with hills -- non-combatants can be accommodated in Quests with prior notice to the Quest Team during the event.
+There is a large hill with a slope or steps to the Chief's Lodge where we have previously situated the Font of Magic.  We are reviewing this location to move it somewhere more acessible.
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 **Q: How do Conquest Phases match up to the Year?**\\
-A: The Phases match up to the Seasons: Summer, Autumn, Winter, Spring, and Midsummer. A year is still the same length as a real world year, but the world has divided it into 5 seasons instead of 4.
+A: The Phases match up to the Seasons: Autumn, Winter, Spring, Summer, and Midsummer. A year is still the same length as a real world year, but the world has divided it into 5 seasons instead of 4.
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