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I think RNG is rather fair, especially in regards to there being different timezones.

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I second that

RNG! RNG! >A<

It's a right pain to have to catch yoou in the 30 seconds you open and then immediately close!

First come, first serve for regular commissions seems to work out fine but if you want you could use the RNG for special commissions like YCH for example.

Also I don't really trust RNG for anything because I don't like leaving things up to chance but that's just my opinion (I'm a veteran D&D player so I know firsthand how cruel and spiteful Random Numbers God can be lol)

I’d go with personal preference.

Honestly? After having to chase after someone's commissions slots in the past for literally about 3 months for day and night and still not being able to get one just because i'm unlucky, first come first serve is probably best for a bigger batch of slots at least

Rng is better than first come first serve once you start getting so many people asking for comms it fills up in a few minutes/within the hour.

First-come-first-serve works for larger batches, but ordinarily I prefer personal preference. You can weed out commission ideas that you really aren't feeling like drawing and you could take on commission ideas that catch your interest. Moods can change even day to day, so you'd have to gauge your mood on particular subject matter. You can also accept commissions from new customers or customers who have not gotten anything from you lately but have expressed interest repeatedly.

First come first serve works better as long as you give the heads up beforehand, perhaps a specific time to open as well.

First come first serve seems more fair, with RNG it's possible that you may never get a slot.

You could always take down notes of who's commissioned you in the most recent com slots, and when you open again after make it so that only new people can grab the current slots and so on with the first come first serve.

I think either "First Come First Serve" or "Artists Choice" is good.

RNG. Or at least First Come First Serve with a restriction on repeat commissions.

Words cannot describe how many times I've missed commissioning someone I've been dying to because people spend all day clicking refresh waiting for someone to open.

FCFS isn't too bad when the time and date is announced and is prefaced with the requirement of a form being filled out. That way folks can plan out their idea and try to gun for being one of the early ones instead of getting caught off-guard. (PostyBirb can schedule journal postings to give at least a consistent opening time so long as the program is running.)

RNG isn't a bad system, but when there's quite a few people hoping to get a slot, possibly having an increased chance for those who return every time (i.e. 2x, 4x, 8x etc) until they get a slot can encourage people to keep trying.

Personally I prefer FCFS, since I'll know if I'm going to allocate my cash to a specific artist, especially if they're opening at the top of the month when most others are opening as well.

I find RNG to be perfect, considering that a lot of people in different timezones are either;
A. Asleep
B. At work
or C. unable to check in time for 'x' reason. FCFS could lead to the same people repetitively commissioning.

RNG please for sure.

It's too difficult to compete with people who can reply within a minutes notice

Maybe give people who haven't commed you before or fewer times a better chance too or something

Maybe even choosing manually too or a heads up when they are opening. Anything is better than the random 5 minute window if you ask me :p

RNG!

Ya could also take the ones ya think ya would do best on / want to do the most. That's how I wish I'd done it uwu;;

If ya ask me, stuff ya are confident in or enjoy makes the art turn out a lot better and is least stressful. It's still somethin' ya are gonna draw, even if ya are bein' paid, so ya should have the opportunity to take the jobs ya want most. Thought for food. uwu

I think that either option has it's advantages. Personally I would rather have you pick what you want to draw if any solution is chosen, I'd rather have the limited slots used on works that will be given the proper attention because the artist is interested in the subject matter

I like this idea a lot in theory, but I'd feel bad having someone type out a possibly paragraphs-long idea only for it to not be chosen (plus choosing between many folks sounds stressful in itself)

First come first serve sounds awfully chaotic for me...

Could always try out both, have half the slots be first-come-first-serve and the other half be RNG; that way even those that might be working or otherwise occupied at the time still have a shot

I've seen some artists do this technique, and I think it works really well! ^^

What's RNG?

Random Number Generator

First Come First Serve can work well if you have some sort of system in place to ensure that the same people are not grabbing them every time, due to timezones / having faster internet / being able to be constantly on to watch for it. If there is no such safeguard in place, then RNG would probably be the better system.

I'd say, RNG weighted according to how many commissions they've gotten from you in the past. So, someone who's never gotten one has better odds than someone who has 5 pics or so. XD