Battleship wrap-up

[extrapenguin]

Once again, I did battleshipex and had fun. (Mostly.) Team Volcano was nice (our tagline: Surprisingly Chill!) and we came joint third with Mermaids. Between requests, my preferences (I've ... gone off M/M somehow?), and some board mechanics, I ended up writing a lot of original works. I also did art this year!

Last year's post for comparison.

Board 1:
Find You Here, Inside (MDZS Yu Ziyuan/Wang Lingjiao; 8 tags)
Unvarnished (OW F/F epistolary; 6t)
Fight the Monster (OW M/F rape revenge; 11t)
Yet the skies always sing to me (SW Shmi gen; 4t)
=29 tags, 3068w => 97% tag efficiency

Boss 1:
Honk ♥ Cluck (OW Soulmate Enforcing Goose/Sex Chicken; art)
=10000 points; 20% of cap (50k)

Board 2:
Sit Next to Me (SW Anakin & Mace; 8t)
( . Y . ) (OW F/F; 10t)
There, I could die (OW F/F; 12t)
Give Your Kingdom (OW F/M; 10t)
=40 tags, 4143w => 98% tag efficiency

Boss 2:
Swim Through the Rocks (OW F/F Crystal Deity/Volcano Deity; art; 10.6k -> 10k points)
Bravais Crystal Lattice Deities (exactly what it says on the tin; 6.4k points)
=16400 points; 33% of cap

Board 3:
lol nope; was turbo demotivated and also we got ... not that much time on it before Tunnel and Crystal finished

Bonus:
three OW Volcano Mermaid arts:
Hot Pool
Lava Pillow
Volcanic Eruption

Total boards: 69 tags (nice), 7205w => 96% tag efficiency
Total words & points: 33.6k (most of which was art)

Previous year:
Board 1: 42 tags, 5370w => 79% tag efficiency
Boss 1: -
Board 2: 48 tags, 6387w => 76% tag efficiency
Boss 2: 5142 points
Board 3: 48 tags, 5794w => 84% tag efficiency
Total boards: 138 tags, 17551w => 79% tag efficiency

This year I contributed much fewer words (avg 3.6k/board; last year 5.8k/board), but I got much better at tag efficiency, so the drop in average tags claimed was only to 34/board from 46/board. Also I put in 26.4k points worth on the bosses, more than five times what I did last year!

Also apparently the median number of works created is 5 and the highest is 37. I'm at 11 this year. The median wordcount was 9852, which, well, honestly I'm surprised it was only that much larger than my wordcount?