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It's up to you, the community!
« on: February 23, 2007, 01:28:54 PM »
This is strictly an idea building post.  In the near/semi-near future, there may be changes coming to Mystic Software.  We're putting it up to you, to suggest new features.  Suggest anything, from the seemingly inane, and the wildly outrageous, to the most useful ever contrived.  Everything will be evaluated on practicality and ease of coding.  There are no promises, but what comes out of this thread could have lasting repercussions on Mystic Software, and maybe the TK community overall.
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Re: It's up to you, the community!
« Reply #1 on: February 24, 2007, 03:19:26 PM »
Maybe make some more forums skins. Have like a Dark one, maybe a Red and Black one for them OTR dudes and perhaps one that looks like the original skin from the main site. Heck maybe you could have the forums kind of merged with the main site like with TKZ.

Oh and maybe host the Toolkit itself. TKZ did it when they weren't even the HQ of the Toolkit, so why not?
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« Reply #2 on: February 24, 2007, 10:34:53 PM »
The new forum didn't remember me so i had to make a name. but i messed up the first one cause i accidently put i was too young. But it looks better.
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« Reply #3 on: February 25, 2007, 12:51:39 AM »
Okay, you're suppost to reset your password. It says that on the main page. MJH, maybe you should put it in bigger letters.
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« Reply #4 on: February 25, 2007, 11:06:59 AM »
Wrong topic!  This is idea building for what may be a new MS....maybe...
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« Reply #5 on: February 28, 2007, 11:18:24 PM »
Honestly I don't like the new TKZ, some of the features are great but the interface isn't as user friendly as the old one, and that one needed improvement. On MS, first off more interesting skins besides teh default one, and some more integration with the main site would be a good idea, and maybe using another bbs or making one from scratch, as a friend and I are doing. Some of the bbs's are getting fake user attacks like crazy, like ones for "enhancement" pills, and "enhancement" images Wink . Are there ways to address that?

Maybe you can really screw with the code and make all sorts of things happen. maybe trying a non-standard format, even make the skins customizable. I found some neat info from a book called The Zen of CSS, one thing is that you take two images, same image but one has some type of effect done to it, set the original one as the main background, fixed positioning, and set the affected one as bkg for all the subelements, fixed like the original, it adds a sort of translucency, especially if you tint the bkg's of the subelements. It's wicked cool. Just an example of smth you can do to spice things up if you wont want to go the minimalist route.



Also Tosoto needs one of these:
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« Reply #9 on: March 06, 2007, 10:22:02 AM »
Wiki ideas are interesting enough.  Smilies and such are...still a little out there.  I'm referring to specifically features of the site itself, not templates, not skins, not graphics, but site features.  Such as the blogs and such that TKZ has.
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« Reply #10 on: March 06, 2007, 01:15:27 PM »
Maybe have a search engine for the games and resources. Oh and perhaps have a page for each letter of games, rather than #,A-H, I-Q, R-Z. Also clean out some dust collecting stuff. Like a few of those waste of space games. Like I heard Wally World was just one board. And perhaps make some more interviews. Maybe interview Xorlak, he's an interesting guy. (Heh...)
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« Reply #11 on: March 07, 2007, 05:11:35 PM »
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Maybe have a search engine for the games and resources. Oh and perhaps have a page for each letter of games, rather than #,A-H, I-Q, R-Z. Also clean out some dust collecting stuff. Like a few of those waste of space games. Like I heard Wally World was just one board. And perhaps make some more interviews. Maybe interview Xorlak, he's an interesting guy. (Heh...)


Okay, the search engine idea is the kind of stuff I'm looking for.  The other things, like the page changes, and 'spring cleaning' -- they're more organizational ideas, not features.  An interview is a content idea, not a feature.
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« Reply #12 on: March 08, 2007, 03:07:11 PM »
Oh, okay. Yeah, I've actually got some more ideas now. Like we have the review submission, perhaps we could have a tutorial submission. And perhaps we could get a TKZ style game page, where users can post info about their game on it.
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« Reply #13 on: March 22, 2007, 01:13:54 PM »
I also think a search engine would be good but mostly improving what is there now. Especially the website layout. One awesome thing though (I was going to use this on a site at one point) would be like gamer cards like on the XBOX website and avatars from games like H:F etc. If you need a design or some PHP work done I am experienced.
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« Reply #14 on: March 23, 2007, 06:24:30 PM »
Oh sweet!
We could have little accomplishments in our games that add to our MS User Card points!  And giving useful resources, reviews, and tutorials will also give you points!

It could be like the 360's system!

Man that's cool.
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