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PostPosted: Fri Jul 17, 2015 12:57 am 
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For DotP, you could do a weekly decklist feature. The guy currently managing the master decklist thread (DJ0045) could probably help you with that.

For RPG, the side-bar with open games is a neat idea. As for the weekly activity, a cool scene from one of the games could be highlighted each week, although that would require someone to actually keep up with every game, which I'm not sure if it's feasible.

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Not enough seems to happen each week in a game, though with enough games, a rotating schedule of updates from each one monthly could work. I know for Princes of the Apocalypse, it's been almost three weeks, and we're still in the beginning of the story with no combat under our belts as of yet.

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Elijin wrote:
So the idea of a 'This week in NGA...' is a really neat idea, and I like the idea of it being a thing.

But...

I can only speak for myself, but when Im looking for a new community or some information, the more barriers you put between me and the actual sub-forum or information Im looking for, the less time Im going to spend trying. And since we're only a forum, I think thats worth considering. The idea is good, and should be a part of NGA in some way, but navigation barriers in front of content are costly when every topic and hobby is dime a dozen for websites about them.
A fair concern. I suspect that right now most of our traffic comes from links to specific areas, though, which the front page wouldn't interfere with.

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For DotP, you could do a weekly decklist feature. The guy currently managing the master decklist thread (DJ0045) could probably help you with that.
I would definitely like to have one of those.

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For RPG, the side-bar with open games is a neat idea. As for the weekly activity, a cool scene from one of the games could be highlighted each week, although that would require someone to actually keep up with every game, which I'm not sure if it's feasible.
Well, no, it would just require someone who reviewed descriptions sent to them by the people in those games. The Content Czars aren't actually responsible for making all the content, just managing it. The content itself comes from poster submissions.

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Not enough seems to happen each week in a game, though with enough games, a rotating schedule of updates from each one monthly could work. I know for Princes of the Apocalypse, it's been almost three weeks, and we're still in the beginning of the story with no combat under our belts as of yet.

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Well, "combat" is a loose term :P

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A fair concern. I suspect that right now most of our traffic comes from links to specific areas, though, which the front page wouldn't interfere with.


Thats actually pretty valid, which I hadnt considered. I mean now that you mention it, I dont imagine too many people look for 'No Goblins Allowed' without knowing about it previously. They'd look for specific things and be linked directly there. So long as we dont become one of those awful websites with a splash/front page which forces itself to be the first viewed thing no matter how you arrive here, Im fine.


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felbatista wrote:
Well, "combat" is a loose term :P

Heh, yeah. Man this current post is taking a long time too.... been working on it for two and a half hours, and still only about 50% done. I wonder if I'll get it done tonight, because I'm gonna be out all day tomorrow. Ugh.

Back on track, I do think it could be good for the DMs of the PRG games to do a monthly piece each about their games (or, if there are say, six games going on, one per week in a six week rotation). It could be really fun to follow along on the character's adventures without needing to check in on the threads daily.

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It could be really fun to follow along on the character's adventures without needing to check in on the threads daily.

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This a million times. If we could manage a way to do this, it would be incredible.

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PostPosted: Fri Jul 17, 2015 1:23 am 
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felbatista wrote:
It could be really fun to follow along on the character's adventures without needing to check in on the threads daily.

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This a million times. If we could manage a way to do this, it would be incredible.


I nominate Garren to be the story recap..per? Thats not a word.


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The problem with a DOTP weekly decklist is that it would be pandemonium trying to pick it.


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Just throw the responsibility at one schmuck and have them pick semi-randomly. I doubt the Duels community will care very much about which decklist is highlighted as long as there's interesting discussion to be had.

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Just throw the responsibility at one schmuck and have them pick semi-randomly. I doubt the Duels community will care very much about which decklist is highlighted as long as there's interesting discussion to be had.


I'm sorry, but the only reason you can even begin to say that with a straight face is that you are not part of that community. It would be like handing someone from DOTP the responsibility to pick a random thread of the week over from your favorite subforum. Would you like Jack picking the card of the month by whatever standards I decide I want to use?


I'll start a thread about this over there actually. See what we can get people to agree on.


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It'd be like if Gobo Scarlet determined the banlist for NGAC.

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newspaper style format sounds pretty awesome.

(we need some warhammer on here too) :evil:

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Just throw the responsibility at one schmuck and have them pick semi-randomly. I doubt the Duels community will care very much about which decklist is highlighted as long as there's interesting discussion to be had.


I'm sorry, but the only reason you can even begin to say that with a straight face is that you are not part of that community. It would be like handing someone from DOTP the responsibility to pick a random thread of the week over from your favorite subforum. Would you like Jack picking the card of the month by whatever standards I decide I want to use?


I'll start a thread about this over there actually. See what we can get people to agree on.

I think the point was to have it be someone from DOTP. Fel mentioned someone who apparently maintains the master deck thread.

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Letting DJ pick things would be akin to letting Door pick the next cards to ban in 3cm. Yes, there would be an intelligent system behind it. But no, I would not fully support such a system.


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Letting DJ pick things would be akin to letting Door pick the next cards to ban in 3cm. Yes, there would be an intelligent system behind it. But no, I would not fully support such a system.

then what system would you support? do you guys want to have like a weekly vote or something? make a counterproposal.

I don't understand the philosophy that says "we shouldn't get a cool thing because we're all gonna whine about the cool thing." even if it's just DJ doing decks, don't you wind up better off than if there's no weekly deck at all?

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Weekly vote would be better.

Ideally, you would need a certain number of votes to nominate something and halfway through the week everyone would get to vote on the best.


The other idea off the top of my head is that people signed up for some list and got to take turns.



HOWEVER, I AM TRYING TO START A DISCUSSION DOWN THERE and see what everyone thinks. As I have literally just said a few posts ago in this thread. Thread exists right now. "Hey guys, they want this subforum to do a weekly decklist. What do you all think as far as the deciding process goes?"


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Letting DJ pick things would be akin to letting Door pick the next cards to ban in 3cm. Yes, there would be an intelligent system behind it. But no, I would not fully support such a system.


I would never do it anyway. Screw that. lol

About that most I'd be willing to do is host a weekly vote (or whatever was required to make it work), but I'd doubt people would participate.


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Another idea that came to my mind is something like a daily crack-a-pack for the Limited forum. We could even implement some kind of voting tool to allow interaction.

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