Forums V2?

[Grinch]

Hey everyone,

With the official start of V2 I have noticed that a lot of our older veterans have decided to give RPGWO another go (Mickey is updating, listening to suggestions, and overall improving the game). I think this is great because RPGWO always brought me good times.

Now with the launch of V2 I'm thinking that the forums could undergo a major change in support of the changes going on in V2.

I need your opinions and feedback for what you would like to see if I overhauled the forums for V2.

1. I'm thinking about introducing a portal as the main page. We can still have the newest replies and whatever on the front, but hopefully add a forum poll and some news on the front page (could be RPGWO news, or just interesting articles that people write and submit).

2. Bring back the arcade

3. Introduce a new skin (yeah it's been a while!)

4. Remove old forums, add new ones, etc.

So please take some time to comment on these ideas because I'd like to know what you think. Also, feel free to check out Invisionize (CLICK HERE) and link me to mods that you'd be interested in, or even skins. Remember: we are version 2.3.x. If we have more than one suggestion for skins, we may have a poll set up to vote for the best one, etc.

Depending on how fast your responses are, this may go into play as soon as Friday night/ Saturday.

Thanks guys,

Grinch

[King Dravien]

Just a new skin and the list of worlds changed, delete the one that arnt there nemore, add the new worlds, etc, remove the games that nobody on this forum plays, like runescape and crap, and thats it.

[Lord Darkness]

Basically






http://mods.invisionize.com/db/index.php/f/7965




kk?

[Grinch]

Basically






http://mods.invisionize.com/db/index.php/f/7965




kk?

Haha but what groups?

[King Dravien]

the elite members and normal members.

[Brendan]

members and elite members.

[Grinch]

Perhaps we should have a new group for people obviously dedicated to the community that wouldn't bring up a dead topic unless they had something good to contribute to it. 500+ posts maybe.

OH. I also want to redo the titles that come with getting x numbers of posts. Any suggestions?

[King Dravien]

Perhaps we should have a new group for people obviously dedicated to the community that wouldn't bring up a dead topic unless they had something good to contribute to it. 500+ posts maybe.

OH. I also want to redo the titles that come with getting x numbers of posts. Any suggestions?

EVERY post? From like 50+ or new ones for 500, 1000, 1500 ?

[Grinch]

No, I'm talking like new ones for 100, 200, etc. Up to 5000 or something because you guys are getting high post counts.

[Pokemon Steve]

Make a forum called The Complainers, I will be the leader, and every post will be a complaint.
And then when Dravien posts anything worthwhile i'll edit it or delete it.

[King Dravien]

No, I'm talking like new ones for 100, 200, etc. Up to 5000 or something because you guys are getting high post counts.

You could bring the classic RPGWO pointless insults into it

500 - Gaining Weight
1000 - Chair Bound
2000 - Moved To In Their Mothers Basment
2500 - Unemployed
3000 - No Life
3500 - Became One With RPGwoForums

Stuff that nobody takes seriously anymore, lol

[Pokemon Steve]

You could bring the classic RPGWO pointless insults into it

500 - Gaining Weight
1000 - Chair Bound
2000 - Moved To In Their Mothers Basment
2500 - Unemployed
3000 - No Life
3500 - Became One With RPGwoForums

Stuff that nobody takes seriously anymore, lol

Yes perfect.

[Grinch]

LOL that's brilliant.

[Kaios]

Moar cowbell.

[Lord Darkness]

yay, so my mods gonna be implimented?

[Grinch]

What mods Darkness? These?

1. Unreal RPG

This sounds great, and has so many more features - interesting features at that - than the lame army system that you just log in and attack someone once every couple days then log out.

2. VRPG

Same as above, sounds like it has similar features. This one requires a point system though I do believe, while the other has it's own. Not quite sure on that. Has a lot more features too. I think this one would be better, but I posted both so others could make their decisions.

3. Challenge games

Has all sorts of different challenge games for members to participate in.

4. Reputation system

This shows what others think of your posts. You can be pep'd (postive reputation point) or nep'd (negative). I think it's a cool system and I use it on other forums. Not sure if it works like them, but on other forums I go to you can also leave little comments behind.

5.Post Rating

Sort of like rating threads, it lets you rate posts. Sounded pretty neat.

6. Unreal Hide Hack

This one sounded REALLY cool. It lets users add hide tags to their posts so that other users must post in a thread in order to see it. So say we want something, like the writers and their stories, blocked out so that you require some sort of participation to see it. Sounds like a great idea, and if someone just spams to see wolf thats where the rep system/rate post comes in

7. Unreal Hide Hack Permissions

Lets you add permissions on the UHH that I posted on number 6.

8. SHOUTcast Radio

I personally couldn't give a wolf about this, but a lot of people from here seem to like it. I'd prolly like it if I had high speed for DJing, but as for listening.. well.. no. Others like it though, so just putting them in consideration.

9. Announcements bar

Lets you put announcements and wolf below the members bar. Sounded neat.

10. Signature Of The Week thread bot

It's a bot that hosts signature of the week threads, I thought it sounded good for making members more active for an ongoing competition.

11. Pets

Lets you feed, battle, etc. your own little pets. I thought itd be neat if you could add RPGWO images of common monsters and stuff.

[TeringJoden]

The pets idea would be quite interesting.

[StormyNight]

See: http://www.rpgwoforums.com/index.php?showt...t=0&start=0

See:

How about keeping wolf on topic? If any topic gets more than 4 posts it in its someone posting some stupid irrelevant wolf.
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Linking:

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- those flash movies where a screaming zombie head pops up and scares you to hell[/size]

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[Rokhan]

Forums V2 is serious business.

New skins definitley, redid rankings by post count definitley as Drav suggested.

There better still be our Writers forum

Soon as I get my drama monologue done Ill be doing a story based on a Canadian tv show, and I promise for this one

**EDIT**
Programming and Design one sub forum, hardly used. Remove Half-Life, Ragnarok and Noobscape.

Ill poll my other though.

[chronolink]

What would 4k posts be? I'm scared...