Glest Board Changes

[silnarm]

//My personal opinion on the MegaGlest board is that if it ain't a mod (finish the sentence)...

Megaglest is a mod, the continuation of the megapack. Now with new worky bits.  I think its proper home is in Mods, but discussion of developing those new worky bits is a different story.

I'm in favour of 'eliminating' the GAE board, and 'replacing' it with an 'Engine Development' board. (Whether that be a simple rename, or a migration to a new board doesn't concern me)

With-out FPM, the GAE board has very limited scope, GAE is not about providing 'new content' for the game now, but rather new facilities for other people to make better content... and I'm perfectly happy with this state.

I think a single board for developer types is a good thing, and if there must be two forks of the engine, the least we can do is share knowledge and discuss our changes with each other, so as to encourage interoperability.

[ultifd]

In my opinion, child boards add an unnecessary and inconvenient extra step.

Aaeehhh.......I hate child boards they're kinda confusing. :-X

I agree... Just suggesting...  ::)
I mean we could have something like that...or not.  :-\-ish.

[@kukac@]

1. Off Topic Board

Well, basically it was a programming only board, but the time has passed, and became a community board. YES

2. MegaGlest Board

It depends on the author, and the community. We shall see.

3. Contributions Board

We already have these invidually, mods, maps, tilesets, translations, etc. boards. NO

4. Board Theme

Not nessecary the board and the community works without it. NO.

5. Reorganized Ranks

Same as above. NO

6. Karma System

It could be used to see who makes the most useful posts/mods/doctrines/etc. :D Altough, it will only work if it is used properly. YES.

7. Feature Wanted Board

Not nessecary, you can do it in the appropriate topics. NO.

8. Blender Board

Modelling board instead :P YES

BTW, congratulations to your (plural) administration :)

[-Archmage-]

Kucac a board theme change won't effect the community all so much but think of being a newcomer, you come to the board of Glest! ........and it's all these medical colors, it makes our board look unattractive, and that really doesn't help when we're trying to expand. Besides, it would be nice, it's not necessary, but it's nice. 8)



Oh come on the old ranks we had were crap, it meant nothing to be an Archmage. :P
New ranks might look cool to newcomers, and I for one want to board to look as good as possible so that it's easier to expand. ;D

[Omega]

Oh come on the old ranks we had were crap, it meant nothing to be an Archmage. :P
New ranks might look cool to newcomers, and I for one want to board to look as good as possible so that it's easier to expand. ;D

Heh, most people would agree. BTW, what is the final rank after grandmaster? I drew a blank on cool names (nobody's reached it yet, you're close, but no cigar).

Posting ranks mean the person can stay for longer to try and raise his rank (not through meaningless posts though!). [I'm not so sure about it. If someone really want to do something, he will post and work, regardless of his "post rank" on the board. Otherwise, it will be problematic, if someone just posts a lot of posts for there ranks. (just look at me :D ) - @kukac@]



Concerning a theme, I would like to make one, bearing in mind that anyone can manually set a theme from their profile page. Still working on a glest theme, a little bit of work to go, while also looking for a pre-made one that would fit glest, then we can vote!  :D

@Concerning GAE/MegaGlest board:
That may not be a bad idea to simply rename the GAE board to 'engine developement' or the like. [Nah, I think it works fine as it is now - @kukac@] I'll let you guys vote on it. Titi, it's your megaGlest, what do you think?

[ElimiNator]

I say, what is a grandmaster? Only use things from Tech & Magic.

And use them all.  :)

[ultifd]

Quote from: Omega on March 08, 2010, 07:53:55 PM
3. Contributions Board

We already have these invidually, mods, maps, tilesets, translations, etc. boards. NO

Not really...  ::)

Otherwise, it will be problematic, if someone just posts a lot of posts for there ranks.

Off topics board  ::)

Grandmaster...  :P heh.

[Omega]

I say, what is a grandmaster? Only use things from Tech & Magic.

And use them all.  :)

Hmm, perhaps I should. Would you guys be okay with that though? I'll make a list of rankings and the posts required then post it here and you guys can decide to like it or not.

[ElimiNator]

Yah.

[tucho]

I updated the Glest page header, if you need some art for the board theme, ask me, maybe I can have staff that can be useful for you

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[img]http://img6.imageshack.us/img6/8540/glestheader.jpg[/img]

[Omega]

I updated the Glest page header, if you need some art for the board theme, ask me, maybe I can have staff that can be useful for you

That'd be great. I am using that same image (I found it yesterday on the wiki). It looks fantastic. How do you make these things so good?


In other words: my proposed board rankings:

Worker         0 posts        0 stars
Initiate       3 posts        0 stars
Daemon         6 posts        0 stars
Swordman       12 posts       1 stars
Archer         20 posts       1 stars
Battlemage     30 posts       2 stars
Summoner       45 posts       2 stars
Guard          60 posts       3 stars
Ghost Armor    80 posts       3 stars
Technician     100 posts      4 stars
Horseman       150 posts      4 stars
Drake Rider    225 posts      5 stars
Ornithopter    350 posts      5 stars
Golem          500 posts      6 stars
Archmage       700 posts      6 stars
Behemoth       850 posts      7 stars
Battle Machine 1000 posts     7 stars
Airship        2000 posts     8 stars
Dragon         5000 posts     8 stars

[ElimiNator]

Sounds good.  :)

[-Archmage-]

How about:

Worker         0 posts        0 stars
Initiate       5 posts        0 stars
Daemon         10 posts        0 stars
Swordman       20 posts       1 stars
Archer         40 posts       1 stars
Battlemage     75 posts       2 stars
Summoner       100 posts       2 stars
Guard          140 posts       3 stars
Ghost Armor    180 posts       3 stars
Technician     250 posts      4 stars
Horseman       350 posts      4 stars
Drake Rider    475 posts      5 stars
Ornithopter    600 posts      5 stars
Golem          750 posts      6 stars
Archmage       900 posts      6 stars
Behemoth       1000 posts      7 stars
Battle Machine 1500 posts     7 stars
Airship        2200 posts     8 stars
Dragon         3500 posts     8 stars

SPECIAL RANK:
Evil Dragon     6000 posts    9 stars
(From the MegaPack!)

[ElimiNator]

What is evel dragon?

[-Archmage-]

Evil Dragon     6000 posts    9 stars
(From the MegaPack!)

See right below where it says evil dragon, can you read that to me please. ::)

[ElimiNator]

Yes I know, but What tech is it in? I never saw it.

[-Archmage-]

Magic. ;D

[tucho]

maybe we have to do an special class for moderators like in the old forums

[-Archmage-]

Special class?
I don't see any need, although it's quite obvious you're talking to me, I didn't do anything wrong.
If we need to discuss something it's better to do it over PM.



BTW, I removed my previous post, and added something to Eliminator's post to end the OT one post eariler......but it appears we are back in OT again..............



Something On-topic for a change:

The MegaGlest boards option has 9 votes, now all we need to do is discuss this with Titi. :D

[ElimiNator]

Actually this is not realy OT, we are talking about the board changes, and I wanted to know what a evil dragon was if it was going to be a level.

BTW: karma is a good idea I think.  :)

[titi]

I also made some changes now, I hope they are ok.
Changes I made:
Announcements doesn't have its own categorie any more
Mods is renamed to "Mods and Development"
Tools have been moved to section "Mods and Development"

What about a new section below everything else which holds the board offtopic?
I don't like offtopic mixed up in general discussions or mods.

[-Archmage-]

There is an off topic board. 8)

[Hectate]

Call the Tools board "Art and Graphics" and people can put their non-mod artwork there, as well asask for help with graphics programs and techiques.

[ultifd]

I updated the Glest page header, if you need some art for the board theme, ask me, maybe I can have staff that can be useful for you

Very nice, was it ok that I added it to the wiki mainpage? Since before it was using the old one and...  ::)  :)

I updated the Glest page header, if you need some art for the board theme, ask me, maybe I can have staff that can be useful for you

That'd be great. I am using that same image (I found it yesterday on the wiki). It looks fantastic. How do you make these things so good?


In other words: my proposed board rankings:

Worker         0 posts        0 stars
Initiate       3 posts        0 stars
Daemon         6 posts        0 stars
Swordman       12 posts       1 stars
Archer         20 posts       1 stars
Battlemage     30 posts       2 stars
Summoner       45 posts       2 stars
Guard          60 posts       3 stars
Ghost Armor    80 posts       3 stars
Technician     100 posts      4 stars
Horseman       150 posts      4 stars
Drake Rider    225 posts      5 stars
Ornithopter    350 posts      5 stars
Golem          500 posts      6 stars
Archmage       700 posts      6 stars
Behemoth       850 posts      7 stars
Battle Machine 1000 posts     7 stars
Airship        2000 posts     8 stars
Dragon         5000 posts     8 stars

Yeah I added it.  :)
The rankings seem nice, except Dragon...I mean it fits but...  ::)

SPECIAL RANK:
Evil Dragon     6000 posts    9 stars
(From the MegaPack!)

Not really "official"...compared to the other units, so people might be confused...and that it is not in Original Glest so...

[Omega]

All right people, I think I'll impliment my ranking system, since it seems to be most popular from posts here and PMs. I won't use an evil dragon yet, since it isn't that well known (I didn't know it existed :P).

Of course, nobody has reached the number of posts for that anyway, so that can be decided in the future.

Titi did a fantastic job with organizing the board. I've talked to him using PMs, and we've decided for the most part to let the number of boards stay for now as it is and let people adapt to them for a while before adding any new boards. The decission to rename the GAE board is reserved for Titi and the GAE team.

I will now begin implimenting the new rankings. Your current ranks will be screwed up until I finish, though its not major enough to put on maintenance mode. I'll edit my post once I am finished. Another minor change: I added Tucho back to the Glest Team. He seemed to have been booted out of that after the board change for some reason. I'm sure there's no argument there as he is one of the best members of the team, having designed most of the art.
Completed the ranking reformation. Please see my next post.