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New Message Board!

Postby Glorfindelus » Mon Oct 19, 2009 5:38 am

There will be a new message board site in a while, hopefully in time for the game's full release. If you have any ideas for the new forums, layout, or art, post them here please.
Decisions made so far: (Things will be added via post edit feature as this topic is posted on)
:arrow: Forums decided( :!: ) or under consideration( :?: ):
:!: World Chat
:!: Bugs/Gameplay Issues
:!: Tech Questions
:!: Casual :arrow: NOT FFA!
:!: Suggestion Box
:!: Trade
:?: FAQs/Help :arrow: Possibly being implemented off the board site.

All forums will be subject to normal posting rules: There will be no FFA (no rules) type forums.
Alignment status forums just aren't plausible as the player habits and alignment changes on a daily basis.
There is a system to display character names under your avatar already in place.
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Re: New Message Board!

Postby Karl G. » Mon Oct 19, 2009 7:25 am

Just wanted to say that this is a great idea and I'd love to see a new forum up as we roll into the final release!
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Re: New Message Board!

Postby Morn » Wed Nov 04, 2009 11:37 am

I don't have a lot of experience with message board creation, and it doesn't look like many other people here do either. I might suggest that you go through forum creation sites and see what you might like in the new forum. Then discuss it here so that other people can see what kind of considerations go into the creation. I think this will inspire a little more feedback.
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Re: New Message Board!

Postby Glorfindelus » Wed Nov 04, 2009 3:02 pm

Well, since nobody replied for like.. 3 weeks :?: Construction has already started. It'll look similar to the main site.
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Re: New Message Board!

Postby marzuku » Wed Nov 04, 2009 3:38 pm

Glorfindelus wrote:Well, since nobody replied for like.. 3 weeks :?: Construction has already started. It'll look similar to the main site.


looking forward to it.

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Ask Karl if he can throw a link to the Message boards up on the Evidyon site.
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Re: New Message Board!

Postby Morn » Wed Nov 04, 2009 3:38 pm

lol, like I said, nobody knows anything about board creation.
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Re: New Message Board!

Postby Glorfindelus » Wed Nov 04, 2009 3:52 pm

Well, the aesthetic parts are pretty much done, but any suggestions as to what Forums there should be within the board would be nice. (World Chat/Bugs/Technical Issues/things like xenimus's FFA)
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Re: New Message Board!

Postby marzuku » Wed Nov 04, 2009 4:51 pm

Glorfindelus wrote:Well, the aesthetic parts are pretty much done, but any suggestions as to what Forums there should be within the board would be nice. (World Chat/Bugs/Technical Issues/things like xenimus's FFA)


Should have Morn's FaQ, so newbs can learn shite and it should be updated for every new stuff that gets added.

-FFA
-Newb information (Morns FaQ fits in here.)
-Evidyon Trading (as we get more towns and maybe dungeon servers alligned with other servers trading will be nice)
-Technical issues
-Bugs
-Suggestions
-Link to some Evidyon Information on famous players throughout the history of Evidyon.
-a Chart showing whos The best/worst alignment players
-A Wanted chart for TOP 10 pkrs
-Forum for each server
-E1, E2, E3(evidyon 1/2/3(When they come)
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Re: New Message Board!

Postby Morn » Wed Nov 04, 2009 9:21 pm

Is world chat going to include both gameplay and casual topics?
Are you accepting applications for moderators?

Are you thinking of limiting vulgarity, if so recomment NOT creating a vulgarity permissable forum as xentales did, in order to protect board content quality. I think the untrackable and unmoderated speech in the game is well enough, and not likely to be cared about by parents of most younger demographics, but a vulgar forum representing the game could turn many concerned families into finding the game unsuitable. I know that many families these days game together (my own family all have active Runescape accounts and I know many households where Warcraft is a family pasttime.) I'm not trying to be a prick about this suggestion, but I feel that we can definitely learn from the xentales mistakes.
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Re: New Message Board!

Postby Glorfindelus » Wed Nov 04, 2009 9:23 pm

For board administration/moderation you will need to talk to my brother, if he doesn't reply to this soon I'll ask him about it and try to get you some info. :)

World Chat in this board is described as anything about game events. I can't speak for my brother, but I think it would be more organized to have a forum for game related topics and a forum for real life/"casual" related topics. I supposed there's also the possibility for having only game-related topics on the entire board.
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Re: New Message Board!

Postby Morn » Wed Nov 04, 2009 9:29 pm

Dunno who your brother is, but I look forward to it.
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Re: New Message Board!

Postby Glorfindelus » Wed Nov 04, 2009 9:32 pm

Morn wrote:Dunno who your brother is, but I look forward to it.

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Xentales admin. Sorry, I should've been more specific.
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Re: New Message Board!

Postby Morn » Wed Nov 04, 2009 10:01 pm

Damn, I guess I shouldn't fling so much crap about xentales then... lol.
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Re: New Message Board!

Postby Glorfindelus » Wed Nov 04, 2009 10:10 pm

:lol: I wouldn't worry about what he thinks of "MENSA" tales......
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Re: New Message Board!

Postby Morn » Wed Nov 04, 2009 10:24 pm

I think Suggestions can be merged with the bugs forum, for the reasons that they will most likely be cross-posted anyways, and Karl's likely to be reading every post in those forums personally, I would think it'd be easier for him to have one forum to look at.

I also think it should be encouraged to post suggestions in the World Chat first so that they can be criticized at length to avoid swamping the forum with incomplete ideas, but this is splitting hairs.
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Re: New Message Board!

Postby Vapore » Thu Nov 05, 2009 2:55 am

Should definitely be a forum. You can place all of your (Add this!) or (I think this spell should be removed!) :arrow: Suggestion's

Bugs/Game play Issues - seems pretty solid.

Definitely should be a forum :arrow: Trade

Would be a nice forum for new people :arrow: FAQS/Guides
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Re: New Message Board!

Postby Stick Stickly » Thu Nov 05, 2009 8:41 am

I just started playing but you should also add to the user portion a spot to list your characters too under a forum name.
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Re: New Message Board!

Postby marzuku » Thu Nov 05, 2009 8:43 am

Stick Stickly wrote:I just started playing but you should also add to the user portion a spot to list your characters too under a forum name.


Ehm, any of you seen blizzards forums? i kinda f-ing love their idea, the Account they play is bound to their forum, so their avatar is their casters class, lvl, guild name.

that way nobody will be able to troll without getting whupped later :D
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Re: New Message Board!

Postby Stick Stickly » Thu Nov 05, 2009 9:08 am

^^^Agreed. Not sure how easy it would be to do that, but it's a grand idea
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Re: New Message Board!

Postby Glorfindelus » Thu Nov 05, 2009 9:50 pm

Stick Stickly wrote:I just started playing but you should also add to the user portion a spot to list your characters too under a forum name.

marzuku wrote:
Glorfindelus wrote:Well, the aesthetic parts are pretty much done, but any suggestions as to what Forums there should be within the board would be nice. (World Chat/Bugs/Technical Issues/things like xenimus's FFA)


Should have Morn's FaQ, so newbs can learn shite and it should be updated for every new stuff that gets added.

-FFA
-Newb information (Morns FaQ fits in here.)
-Evidyon Trading (as we get more towns and maybe dungeon servers alligned with other servers trading will be nice)
-Technical issues
-Bugs
-Suggestions
-Link to some Evidyon Information on famous players throughout the history of Evidyon.
-a Chart showing whos The best/worst alignment players
-A Wanted chart for TOP 10 pkrs
-Forum for each server
-E1, E2, E3(evidyon 1/2/3(When they come)

Morn wrote:I think Suggestions can be merged with the bugs forum, for the reasons that they will most likely be cross-posted anyways, and Karl's likely to be reading every post in those forums personally, I would think it'd be easier for him to have one forum to look at.

I also think it should be encouraged to post suggestions in the World Chat first so that they can be criticized at length to avoid swamping the forum with incomplete ideas, but this is splitting hairs.

:idea: :arrow: Relative information has been updated to first post.
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Re: New Message Board!

Postby Vapore » Fri Nov 06, 2009 5:13 am

marzuku wrote:Ehm, any of you seen blizzards forums? i kinda f-ing love their idea, the Account they play is bound to their forum, so their avatar is their casters class, lvl, guild name.

that way nobody will be able to troll without getting whupped later :D


Until you post on a alt. :)
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Re: New Message Board!

Postby marzuku » Fri Nov 06, 2009 3:15 pm

Vapore wrote:
marzuku wrote:Ehm, any of you seen blizzards forums? i kinda f-ing love their idea, the Account they play is bound to their forum, so their avatar is their casters class, lvl, guild name.

that way nobody will be able to troll without getting whupped later :D


Until you post on a alt. :)


yeah but the fun part about that, nobody takes low lvls superserious, so it will all be like "bla bla bla"
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Re: New Message Board!

Postby Joe M. » Fri Nov 06, 2009 7:46 pm

I am definitely in favor of linking forum accounts to game accounts. I don't know how feasible that is for us, at least in the near future, but I'd love to see it happen at some point.
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Re: New Message Board!

Postby Glorfindelus » Sat Nov 07, 2009 1:08 am

That would probably have to be done from the games end. Having forum accounts be registered (1 per account) only through the game (in account menu) is the only way I can see that happening. At this time though, it's a voluntary action to display character names under avatar.
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Re: New Message Board!

Postby ffrank » Sat Nov 07, 2009 1:48 pm

It can be done with ease.
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