What to do with Ideas?

1. What to do with Ideas?

   #1

   I do not mean ideas in general, or that forum thread. I mean Ideas accessible from the main page.
   
   Ideas were here from the beginning, and it was a good place to drop anything random. But ever since the forums started to prosper, the Ideas were naturally in decline. Now they are almost forgotten, though some people have posted recently in there.
   
   Sure, some could be deleted, but many are idea-inspiring and can help someone. There are 198 of them, at this point, by the way. Will we do something about them?
   
   - Keep them as they are? Easy.
   - Move them in some way into the Forums? Lots of problems.

2. What to do with Ideas?

   #2

   I'd advise not moving them to the forums. Where they are at the moment the munchkins don't find them...
   
   I know that if I have a short length idea I tend not to post it to the forums, I only usually post larger ideas. I think a forum full of ideas like the ones in the Ideas section of the main site would be cluttered and tatty.
   
   Also I like the way they appear at the bottom of the screen. I'm not sure that would be easy to code if they were put into the forums.
   
   However, I take your point they are stagnating where they are. I think we need to change the way they work.
   
   1. We need them to appear in the "new posts" section so people don't ignore them.
   2. We could also go through and prune the bad ones. Then we could tell people to post ideas to the forum as a competition, where the best ones each week would be posted to the ideas section. Then the winners could see their names forever etched onto the bottom of the screen!
   
   ephe!

3. What to do with Ideas?

   #3

   Not sure about option 1, but did a little pre-clean-up work.
   
   I have reviewed all 199 ideas there are at the moment (*sweats*), here come some that captured my attention:
   
   #13 Edit, perhaps?
   #54-56, 75 Maybe rework into actual locations?
   #59 Delete?
   #69 Too-plot relevant? Maybe a comment would do better.
   #102 Too short perhaps?
   #120 Edit.
   #123 Expand or delete, or what?
   #147 Delete.
   #151 I don't know, but it is so bad in a way...
   #174-176 Eph, please copy these into the Insect thread, they are quite good.
   #187 Delete.
   #189 Maybe too cliche?
   #198 Is this a question or idea? Delete.

4. What to do with Ideas?

   #4

   Wow! Good work Manfred! 14 pages' worth! I've moved the insects to the recommended thread and I'm now reworking the "Sleeping Mines of Elathon" to incorporate this (and other ideas) and recasting the various locations as settings (they were posted before the settings section came into being!). I agree about cutting most of the ones you've suggested.
   
   ephe!

5. What to do with Ideas?

   #5

   I agree as well. I definitely think some of the ideas, especially #123, should be expanded.

6. What to do with Ideas?

   #6

   13, edited :)
   59 deleted
   102 deleted (salt and pepper as a weapon. ooohhhh??)
   120................."in the city of rokuan strange things are happening. in the nights they say people are dissapearing and some say they see things coming from the sewers" DELETED. so cliche it is not worth anything.
   123 - sentient cabbages...I think not. I don't even think Veggie Tales went that far.
   147 deleted (A random spell has caused the most noble PC to fall under the controle of the most wicked.)
   151 deleted (You are going thru your dead Fathers belongings and you come upon an old ring with a note tied to it The ring is the key as you look deeper you find a map and a bag of holding with full body armor, a sword, and a bow inside of it.)
   187 deleted (a condition that causes a person to mutate into a dragon-like creature over the period of a year. the condition has a cure, but the potion takes 2 years to make....)
   189 yes, but I will leave it.
   198 deleted (There are some generic thing that I have noticed stay the same for each race nomatter what the game. for instance, elves always are more dextarious than humans, but why?)
   
   Great Manfred. THANKS. Actually not too bad considering how many there are.
   
   I trust all your judgements 100% so feel free to run on your own initiative. I would like to see the stuff that gets deleted (except for comments) just for curiosities sake but feel free to do as you feel you need to.
   
   All your comments were dead on as far as I am concerned and thanks for helping clean it up.
   
   As for what to do with them....I think they are fine. There are enough that I don't mind only getting a new on every month or so.
   
   I could, perhaps, add them to the bottom of the forum though to give them more "air" time. Would that be worth it? I wouldn't put them in a box, just add them above the Die Rollers vote link as text. Would that give them some more life? Half tempting to add a random submission there instead with a link to the full one. hmmmmmmmm

7. What to do with Ideas?

   #7

   Putting them at the bottom of more pages would be fine. More contact, the more people will use them.
   
   Ideas should have stars as well. I know this will mean more data manipulation for Strolen, but though he might complain.. we all know he secretly loves it.
   
   On a related throught, we have a few threads that could easily be dumped into the ideas area (places too short to be a place (villages), history thread, and a few others). Should I go through and post those into the Ideas?
   
   Yes Manfred you have shamed me into doing something with this data. Gamecraft will go live someday.
   
   A thought. Instead of listing a random plot/ item/ npc and the ideas at the bottom...., only post one (maybe two) random elements pulled from plots/ items/ npcs/ and ideas. That way we would get more hits on ideas and NPCs, as most people only stop at plots and items because they are visable on a normally open browser without scrolling down.

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