Just a thought; what about doing Chicago for simucon 2016, gobal city etc?

Its a pretty sweet venue in comparison to St. Louis. I'd literally be willing to start organizing and help pull this together if the staff and company are amenable.
If this is in any way feasible or if you want me to lay out a rough sketch feel free to contact me via e-mail. I can get a really cheap group rate at some really nice hotels in the heart of downtown.

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Moving SimuCon has been discussed numerous times, but it never gains traction for quite a few reasons that aren't changing.

1) Simutronic's head quarters are in St. Louis.

2) St. Louis is very central. What this means is a fairly significant chunk of people are either locals or do a one day drive from various parts of the East Coast. If you move the convention north or south a good chuck of those people are now looking at having to fly or a two day drive (All the folks from the Texas area in particular if you were to move to Chicago). If you move it farther East you have the same problem (though this is likely the most viable option) and if you move it to the West you potentially let some of the West Coast people drive (Though most of us would likely still fly...) but all of a sudden ALL of the East Coast people have to fly.

3) Everyone knows the St. Louis area at this point - they know where the good places to eat are (And they're within walking distance of the hotel), we know where we can get reasonably cheap hotels (And it isn't large enough to get major group discounts anymore) and so forth.

... and that thing about GS4 vastly outnumbering DR this year was totally true and you'd want to be on the SimuCon forums for a better discussion.

Since VegasCon stopped we've long discussed trying to find a replacement but nothing ever gained traction. Before his passing Socharis and I (mostly him) had started on plans for a NorthwestCon that would alternate between the Seattle area and the Portland area. I believe he had found a giant house he wanted to rent in the Seattle area but I don't have any further details on it and I really don't know what the showing would be like out here - considering DR only had about a dozen people between Staff and players at the Con this year (GS4 had us beat at least 4:1).

-Raesh

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Traditionally DR has had a slight to significant edge on GS4 for attendance. This reversed somewhat a year or two ago and exploded this year.

We haven't been able to put our finger on why (Are they adverting to their players more?) though part of the fall off for DR's attendance is that a fairly consistent group of the attendees were the same group of friends who mostly haven't played DR for quite some time and would just come to hang out with each other and some of their old DR buddies. In the last few years that group has been setting up their own events that eat up their fall vacation time (And I think they may have finally gotten tired of attending a convention for a game they no longer played.)

-Raesh

"The trouble with atheism, is that it offers a limited range of curses.” - Two Serpents Rise

Why not just rent a booth/etc. at a regular con?

Totally different functions.

A booth at a Con is a way to sell stuff and/or advertise your product.

SimuCon is a social gathering.

-Raesh

"The trouble with atheism, is that it offers a limited range of curses.” - Two Serpents Rise

Whoops. I was just skimming and saw 'con in the northeast' and...well, ya.

I would be another one that could drive to a NorthWest event, that would be fabulous! I know there are other Canadians who could come as well. I have tried for years to attend Simucon, but it has never worked out, usually because of timing.

Are we frontier neighbors, Absolon? Am I not alone here in Alaska? The difference between Seattle and St. Louis isn't profound in the sense of airfare for me ($151 vs $242), but it is airfare either way. Therefore the location isn't an issue for me!

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<<Are we frontier neighbors, Absolon?

Nope. I'm in Vancouver.

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What I remember about Portland is that I swear downtown Portland has a Starbucks on every block.

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Yeah I know of like five Starbucks within walking distance of one another in downtown. There's also stuff like Stumptown all over though which is probably the most overrated hipster crap in the world but that's Portland for you.

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Oh I live in Absolon's town.

>It's a west coast thing for sure. In my neighbourhood there are no less than 6 Starbucks within a 5 minute walk, two of which are literally across the street from each other.

I'm not sure about elsewhere, but in my hometown some Starbucks have Express kiosks, so it's basically a Starbucks inside another Starbucks (across the street from Starbucks, of course).

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So if folks wanted to do something in Portland (of course you do) when would people want to do that?

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Joke's on you it hardly rained at all this year and now the state's on fire. :V

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>>Joke's on you it hardly rained at all this year and now the state's on fire. :V

The poor Hawthorne decorations..

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I'm in Oswego so I'd be there also.

Vegascon is totally happening February 19-21, 2016. The plan is a Friday-Sunday fun thing so people only need minimal time off from work if they work a Monday-Friday week. Think of the lights! Feathered hairdresses! Fancy Food! Silly gambling tables!

Shenney