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.

[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.

[Tyhm]

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

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

[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.

[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.

[Dach]

-for streamlining the difference between linear mode and hybrid/threaded-
Invoke automatic quote (char limit of ~100) of post replyed to for threaded replys on linear peeps' browsers, plus merge posts made in quick succession to alleviate the appearance of "double-posting". Then, this isn't really a hack suggestion, but everyone that doesn't use threaded view needs to hit the right buttons so their posts show up correctly in threaded view. For the most part, that isn't a problem, but some people slack off (I don't even remember who so I couldn't name names if I wanted to)

[Thallen]

• Reinstall the "rate user" modification.
• Install the "v3 Arcade", or any other interesting feature modification, to make the board more fun when there is nothing else to do.
• Specify more profile fields, such as "Favorite Playerworld", "Most Active Guild", etc.
• Shorten the forum title, specify that only Gold and VIP users can register in the actual registration agreement.
• Create such forums only for VIp subscripers, such as a Graal3D discussion forum.

[WanDaMan]

How about an option under the players account, i.e add to buddys, check for previous posts (with you related in them only). Things like that, and also I agree on the rate user

[Scott]

• for the Pet hack, have it so custom pets can be uploaded

• enable user titles for regular users

• enable avatars for regular users

• perhaps find a new forum template, as this one seems rather chunky

• as Thallen said, finally create the VIP forums

[EsCanavi]

Posted by WanDaMan
How about an option under the players account, i.e add to buddys, check for previous posts (with you related in them only). Things like that, and also I agree on the rate user

if you click the user name that already here o.O', and yeah take back the use rate =P

[Brad]

for the smileys make the faces a template of the basic graal head the newbie head and make him smile,frown,be mad, etc.

[Dach]

...We still do not have anything to talk about for any VIP forums so it would just be a spam forum til then, so just wait