Event Registration 2017

The gold piece/silver piece system from past years is gone; TTE does not support it.

Instead, you will be allowed one or more "featured" events, depending on your badge type and as many other events as you care to try. This is one reason why you will not be able to pre-fill your carts this year.

At the moment, we are reviewing our featured events and moving as many as we can off the list so as to make the most events available to the most people.

Note that the Artemis event collects a fee (I think $2) at game time. I also see that this is not mentioned on the site. I shall fix that as soon as I can.

 

The Artemis fee actually is $5. We have not yet decided exactly how we'll collect that.
We likely will set the price in TTE at $5 and sell paper tickets at the show for walk-ups.

 

The "purchasing system" is in place.
You get one or more featured events, depending on your badge type. The old gold piece/silver piece system is gone.
You get any number of non featured events. TTE will not allow you to double schedule.
You do get to load a cart and submit all at once if you like (you can check out more than once if necessary). What you can't do this year is overload your cart (as happened last year) you'll get an error.

 

I'm not quite sure what you're talking about here. As I mentioned elsewhere, all times shown on TTE are local (CDT) for the show days. This has been a problem for some PC users who have been sharing information over the net, thanks to some Windows quirks.

 

Noon Eastern each day, as it has been in the past (says Luke).

 

Is there a chance? Yes, since "other" isn't any too helpful. Will we get to it before reg opens? I can't tell. There are other fires to put out.

 

Haversack and datagoblin:

You cannot preload your carts this year as you could last year. When reg opens for your badge type, however, you can load up your cart and submit all at once, however.

Also see my next post.

 

Here’s a list of new search features, courtesy of Table Top Events. TTE has delivered big time (these all refer to the search pane/tool that appears below the event list):

- Public custom fields (like Game System) can be displayed in the search results now.
- You can filter out events that are sold out.
- You can filter out events that are in the past (great for searches while at the con).
- You can filter based upon event start time to help fill the gaps in your schedule.
- Hitting enter twice no longer deletes your search filters. Only explicitly hitting the big red X will do that.
- Added check marks next to the columns you’re displaying, to make it more clear which ones are being displayed

 

Thanks for the info. More questions:
1) Can the cart be loaded before noon and then immediately submitted, or do you only become able to start loading at noon?
2) Is an event 'yours' once it gets into the cart, or is it like the previous system - where infinitely many people can put it in the cart, but what matters is who the first ones to check it out are?
3) If (2) is the latter case, what happens when you try to check out 6 items and 4 are available and 2 not? Does it give you 4 right away or make you unload the full ones first?
4) Does the system allow easy and immediate returning of events, if you change your mind, or is it a slower manual process?
Comment:
5) A weekday daytime registration? That seems like awfully inconvenient timing. I may end up returning my Gold (if we can still do that) and going Silver instead, because I'm doubtful about registration from work.

 

{Edited response reflecting new information from the good folk at TTE.}
I don't know all the answers, and I expect that a public post somewhere is a better place to give out this information, but here's what I know:

1. You cannot load a cart ahead of time.
2. It is the former. Here's what the TTE folks said:

Once a ticket for a game is in your cart, that ticket is yours. It’s not first to check out wins. It will remain in your cart for two hours, so you have plenty of time to check out.​

3. You can submit as many carts as you like.
4. I don't have a clue about returning events.
5. Yes, it's not great, but those are the times we're using this year.

I'm copying out this post and showing it to the people who actually are handling registration. Look to the main site for definitive answers.