Luxa's Suggestions!

[Luxa !]

I've made a suggestion topic before, I believe. Since I'm too lazy to update it to show my new suggestions, I've decided to make a more official post with my suggestions XD. Feel free to hate me, or whatever XDDD

I was thinking about more awesome site codes for the board and tons of things just popped into my head. Even if they are entirely unrelated! XD So here they are!

Minimum Word Count, Point System, Member Groups & Related Stuff![/size]
So I was thinking: maybe at the start we should be less strict on this, seeing as some people are new to roleplaying. I mean, a good site welcomes all roleplayers... but we should do something like giving them a member group to show their roleplay 'stats'. I'd love to edit that XDDDD. Lol, like if they are intermediate roleplayers, we should have something on their titles. On mine it says my status & replies, lol, but you can easily edit that with people's information. And you can make member groups with to show if they're advanced roleplayers and stuff like that :). Maybe it would look like this...

[maybe we can put a point system here. i think i know a code on the support boards for that. i know you need to manually edit this... but maybe somehow. right in hogwarts professors need to indicate if they are giving points? lol totally unrelated, but we could put point systems to make the users more active. OR lol, we leave points systems to the karma thing. And put something awesome with graphics here XD.]
Roleplaying Level
[we can put monthly awards! and if they won something we should put that here.]

I can't think of anything after those parts of the profile. But either way, I think it's a good idea XD.
And post count--I think you've already got that covered, Goanna XD. I think I saw something about three paragraphs. Is that true?
And like I said before, monthly awards. More tedious business. More active roleplayers though.

Layouts and Boards Stuff![/size]
We should have specific details in layouts of each board. Maybe a few side tables on the right or something. To show more specific details of the weather at that current area [ie The Graveyard!] and the top posters at that board for the month. [Maybe have monthlies on specific board [[top posters]] and the general winners of the month. how tedious, haha XD.] And you can also include stuff that gives more informations 'bout the place :).
And also, the creation boards needs a posting code! I like the form, lol, but we should put a code on the board so that when someone select 'new post' a premade form shows up instead of the regular message post interface. Like the premade form Goanna's already posted, but just put that on the code. Lol if Goanna happens to read this, remind me to send her a message about codes, lol XD. I love codes.
And if anyone has the time we should make new smilies! XD. Anything that floats your boat. meh.

Tehhhh Plot![/size]
Maybe put human interference. Or something.


Anyways..... That is all.
Luxa :)

[Goanna]

Whoawha ok letta me see, this’ll take a while to reply to xD!

First thing I’ll start with is that there won’t be human characters here; it’s a fantasy animal RPG, so I don’t want to complicate it much further (that said, there could still possibly be some ‘interference’ later on, such as a washed up… idk tin can or something? Maybe several games years later we could have some human objects wash up on shore, but for now I think there’ll be enough of a plot to go with).

Now yeah, I’d like to keep Avelle a friendly place open to all levels of RP experience- I don’t think there’s a way of making things more strict later on, as people will join with all levels at any time. I… don’t think I’d be happy with grouping people based on their roleplay level either. Proboards does have automatic ranks based on the number of posts a person has, so we can do that, but yeah I wouldn’t really want to complicate things much beyond that xD

The point system… you know, I’d originally planned that for Avelle (I had a shop up with things you could buy for points) but decided against it. But yes, karma things mebbe!

I know most sites do member of the month, player of the month, etc. That wasn’t really something I wanted to do, just cos I want to keep it pretty laid back and non-competitive; it’ll be a fun community, not one based on elitism blah blah.

I do believe Kenks added something about a post count into the RP guide- I think it’s a minimum of one paragraph orrrrr 100 words. Really easy to meet so we don’t scare people off hahah! Just as long as they post more than a sentence.

Nowww for the layout; I’m not going to put any side tables in, I’m happy with the layout as it is now (noice n symmetrical BD). But in each of the sections (like in the “Graveyard” actual board), we could certainly have a post with information about the place, plus the weather etc. I want a site-wide weather though hmm, so that the breedings and things are the same all over. Also for the NPC species index… I’m thinking about revamping that again. This time maybe in each of the locations, the animals that live there could be in an info board. Yep yep.

Smilies are definitely something I’ll try to work on when I’ve got time (got so much schoolwork at the moment gah!), yup! And hmmm I quite like your idea of the form, but there’s a two way split in my mind. It’d be a cool thing to have, nice and easy to get people posting there…. (but a mod will have to be able to post “ACCEPTED” or some feedback if they are rejected), plus I’m not sure…I know I like to be able to come back and edit my posts, plus yeahhhh well we’ll see! Oh hmm! If you could figure out how to do that, let me know. Actually you know what? That sort of thing would work really well on the babies board. So people enter info about the two parents then it posts it… like… oh yeah I’ve seen a site with that: www.lethalsheep.com/reykjavik/boards/gathering/foalform.php
That’s a cool idea! If you could figure out how to do that… (I’m hopeless with coding hehe)
Annnd that’s another thing actually; see how the site above and also moonislandrpg.com are RPGs but not on a forum. Maybe down the track we could do something like that? It’s another style though so we’d have to vote on it

[Luxa !]

Oh, lol yay, a reply XD.
I'm not as good on coding either . But whenever I need proboards codes I go to the Proboards Support site. <-- That thread's awesome, lol. Most people find it hard to find the code they want, but that's 'cause they're not looking hard enough. The premade form code is in a link in Additional Posting Hacks. Tell me if you can't find it . I'll point it out if you want XD.

Yeah, it would work quite well with the babies--that site you have shown me reminds me of roleplaying sites on both webs & proboards. Lol.

And for your other ideas--you think better than me XD. Lol, see you later!

[Goanna]

Ya ya ya I've got all the coding for this site off Proboards Support haahha, it's excellent!
We will have to look into it ^0^

[Luxa !]

Lol, sure :). Anything to help out! Lol, also, I'm going to get started with some writing for the creatures ;).

[Goanna]

Whoohoo, thanks!

[Luxa !]

Umm, you're welcome, lol :D