Umm, Unixmad's Suggestions Thread Returns

[Tyhm]

Okay, Unixmad asked for suggestions on the forums. I think he offered like a month of gold for the top 10 suggestors. The current ideas were:
Graalthemed Icons (I did a few to scale: Chest for forum, gralat from state.png for announcements/PM for thread (blinking if new, red if hot, orange if hot and you posted last, Noplayerkilling X through it if it's locked, etc)
Pet battles (We can attack each other on the forum like it's one of those webpage battle games)
There were more, right?

[protagonist]

Yes.


IP lock moderator accounts.

[Tyhm]

I like that idea: IP Locks are good, security is good.

Buying stuff with the points could work well with petfights...

[napo_p2p]

Originally Posted by Tyhm

I like that idea: IP Locks are good, security is good.

Buying stuff with the points could work well with petfights...

Yeah and with buying stuff, there could be a lottery with the money too

[WanDaMan]

How about them status bars on the left, but they have a purpose? Like what screeny said? So you log onto I don't know, UN for example. That would be your deaths/kills/hp/mp bla bla bla. But if the last server you was on before going onto these boards was Graal Kingdoms, make it show a kingdom tag and all that stuff..

[Crono]

You should have one of those Forum shops. Where you buy things for fun. For example, Haunter holds a "Best graal level" competition and the winner gets, say, 50 points. With these points he can buy things like maybe effects to his name? (glowy, shadow, "graalian" green, etc.

It would also be a good idea to take off the post requirement for avatars and make it so that you can buy "rights" for an avatar instead. That and buy "rights" for a custom title.

[Spark910]

I suggested the pet hack before
But thats while they were installing them, its a nice hack and idea.

[dlang]

Post Layouts (In HTML)
I thought of that because I visit Acmlm's Board sometimes,
they have nice layouts over there.

[Loriel]

• smaller icons, especially for the forums listing, will make it easier to scroll through things keeping overview.
• change the rules to allow double posting as long as each posting goes into a seperate branch in the thread's tree structure. This will make threads easier to follow, especially with thread mode, as posts belonging together are actually displayed together as a branch and not all linearly which might make it hard to understand contexts
• make a mode similar to hybrid mode that displays all posts at once but still has a tree structure that allows jumping to posts.
• possibly write up some script to generate a giant thread view in which all forums, subforums, threads and posts are displayed as equal nodes.
• do not inline the css, but just put a reference. This not only increases cachability, but then you can also make it possible to change that reference's path in the options so users can make it point to their local css files for great customization.

[GoZelda]

Originally Posted by Loriel

• smaller icons, especially for the forums listing, will make it easier to scroll through things keeping overview.

Yes yes yes!
Perhaps the warp ring for a moved thread, and like, a gold gralat for 'hot' thread, red for 'active' thread and green for a long-died thread.

[Brad]

the more posts you have the stronger your pet should be

and you should get to pick what kind of monster it is like a fish a dog thing a cat thing

color too etc. etc.

[ETD]

Originally Posted by Brad

the more posts you have the stronger your pet should be

wouldn't this just cause more ?

Here's some of my suggestions...

• A spot for most played server, in your profile, and user info next to your post
• Onlinetime counter for the forums
• Thread rating system (so we can see which threads are worth reading)
• Add a section for ALL graal players with upgraded accounts
• move the playerworld sections (for each server) to there, so the actual players of that PW can post, instead of only the handfull with VIP or Gold accounts.
• Also add a guilds forum in this section, as well as a general discussion section (so 3 sections total for all upgraded accounts)
• Add the VIP forums (as people have already said)
• Inside the VIP forums, have the Graal 3D section as said before, and also, have a section for Private playerworld discussion, and then a general discussion section.
• Create a 'happy birthday' section, just like you have a 'hello and goodbye' section... then have all posts made in those 2 sections NOT count twards your total post count. (this will lower spam, and get rid of all those happy birthday threads in the non-graal section...)
• People with VIP accounts should get a little something extra next to their name in the forums... like a * or something, to show they are a VIP member.
• Add an option (if there isn't one already) to enable/disable other people's signatures when you are viewing the forums.

I will post again if I have any more ideas

[EsCanavi]

Originally Posted by ETD

wouldn't this just cause more ?

Here's some of my suggestions...

• Add an option (if there isn't one already) to enable/disable other people's signatures when you are viewing the forums.

Here!

[Tyhm]

Originally Posted by ETD

• A spot for most played server, in your profile, and user info next to your post
• Onlinetime counter for the forums

• Agreed
  

  Originally Posted by ETD

  Thread rating system (so we can see which threads are worth reading)

  I wouldn't bother. Impractical on so many levels; who's gonna judge which threads are worth reading? How many people are gonna judge thread by rating and decide based on that whether or not to read it? Is that a good thing? I mean, we didn't even pay attention to user ratings last time.
  

  Originally Posted by ETD

  Add a section for ALL graal players with upgraded accounts

  You mean add a section for Classicians?
  

  Originally Posted by ETD

  move the playerworld sections (for each server) to there, so the actual players of that PW can post, instead of only the handfull with VIP or Gold accounts.

  Godno. There should be a public listing of all the playerworlds' own forums, dynamically updated, but you have any idea what a hassle it was just to keep track of who was the admin of the PW for the 10 PW forums we used to have? Plus every week, 3 more want to be added and 10 more ought to be removed, oi. The list will be trouble enough, if people really want to talk about Valkorlia they can do it at Valkorlia.com or whatnot. Let them worry about it, and let them be the supreme arbiter of such things. Downside, more forum passwords to remember/risk of using the same one for everything (bad), upside, they can let classic members post there or even turn off the You must be a registered member to post restriction if traffic's low enough.
  

  Originally Posted by ETD

  Also add a guilds forum in this section, as well as a general discussion section (so 3 sections total for all upgraded accounts)

  Add the VIP forums (as people have already said)

  Inside the VIP forums, have the Graal 3D section as said before, and also, have a section for Private playerworld discussion, and then a general discussion section.

  Create a 'happy birthday' section, just like you have a 'hello and goodbye' section... then have all posts made in those 2 sections NOT count twards your total post count. (this will lower spam, and get rid of all those happy birthday threads in the non-graal section...)

  That'd be nice, I remember thinking it existed once, incorrectly

Originally Posted by Brad

the more posts you have the stronger your pet should be

Godno. Perhaps based off time on the forum, perhaps just everyone gets about the same thing, but postbased will be g'dawful, let's not reward people for ming cleverly. I'm not even a big fan of making it based off how many victories you've had, as that'll make it such that whoever wins the first few becomes invincible and the newbie who walks in just gets forumslaughtered. Rather than a beat him up and steal his lunch money system, or even a knock him out and gain experience system, just a sparring system. You don't gain anything but prestige. Maybe some clever configuration to it so you can strategically plan your defences rather than everything being a double knockout...I dunno, the hack might be a right pain to alter. Ideally it'd be based off alliances, you pick two allies who, hopefully, weren't already knocked out; you add to their defense when they're attacked, they add to yours assuming they selected to when you are.

[ETD]

Originally Posted by Tyhm

You mean add a section for Classicians?
.....
you have any idea what a hassle it was just to keep track of who was the admin of the PW for the 10 PW forums we used to have? Plus every week, 3 more want to be added and 10 more ought to be removed, oi.

Yes, and I ment ONLY for public playerworlds.... since management on public servers isn;t supposed to change often, then it shouldn;t be that bad.... also, since forum passwords are usually the same as your graal password when you sign up, I don;t see how it could cause people to use the same password as something else?

anyways, it would be nice to have more of a classic presence in the forums... I mean, they're graal players too, and they supported graal by buying an account at one time... so I think they deserve at least 1 small section where they can communicate...