Umaro sounds like one of those annoying Admins who don't like to appoint mods and, at the same time, who cannot really take care of the forum themselves... and that sucks.
He is usually pretty quick to respond to my IMs/PMs/emails. and he does read this thread.
havent heard from in a few days, though, vacation i guess.
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If he takes vacations he needs a secondary admin. And I think there were some secondary people. Making a mod isn't such a big thing, he could give that right to someone.
-Humankind cannot gain anything without first giving something in return. To obtain, something of equal value must be lost. That is alchemy's First Law of Equivalent Exchange. In those days, we really believed that to be the world's one, and only, truth.
spose ill get started on the new list, though i probably shouldnt until some of the previous suggestions are taken care of. oh well
61. Forum clans.
some forums have different special groups or clans, these clans have there own forum that only they can use, as well as having access to a forum for all the clans, posting in these sections works like a spam area, i.e your post count does not go up.
being that this is Diablo, prehaps the classes could be characters such Warrior, Rogue or Sorcerer. 3 is a good number, too many LOD chars i couldnt decide on which ones to not use.
or prehaps the clans could be named after the various mage clans or Barbarian tribes or other such groups in Diablo.
Clans also boot out members for inactivity, having some content which "forces" activity, might just do this site some good. They also require you remain active for 1 month after joining said clans.
it also give you a nifty little icon in your post profile
alternatively we could have SICK be such a clan, might just "force" some activity with SICK. damn inactivity, it bothers me to no end
62. Realm icons
to save further threads like "what realm do you play on" prehaps there could be an icon or something in your user profile that shows which realm you play on.
63. Referrals
It would be nice, if possible to see who it is you have referred to this site. I myself currently have 7, it would be nice to know who there are.
63. Updating of the Calendar
Update of calendar, it's still not fixed.
uh thats all i can think of right now (but there are probably more)
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was just on www,starcrafttwo.com, this site's brother site, and i noticed one of its stie statistics was Active members, and i was thinking to my self, WTH dont we have that info here?
both sites use the same software as far as i can tell, so displaying active members here should be too hard should it?
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-Humankind cannot gain anything without first giving something in return. To obtain, something of equal value must be lost. That is alchemy's First Law of Equivalent Exchange. In those days, we really believed that to be the world's one, and only, truth.
was just thinking, an army pays it members for any and all time they serve. prehaps we could do the same, but for those of us actually in SICK. though, i dont think the mechanics of points allows for different amounts, we'd all get the same amount.
trouble is, we'd need something to do with the points of forum gold, once we got them. Ive been on a few sites where you cant even get a signature and/or avatar till you have accumulated enough points. Im not saying we need to go that far, but i do think we need something you actually want to save your points up for, maybe custom title or something?
66. Second Request for Forum Game anyone here who how to make something similar to Dragon Fable or Adventure Quest? maybe we should look at getting a more Diablo-esque one. might be fun. might help to reduce inactivity.
alternatively there is a more website based games like on www.darkthrone.com if anyone knows how that was made, prehaps they could look at making one for us.
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-Humankind cannot gain anything without first giving something in return. To obtain, something of equal value must be lost. That is alchemy's First Law of Equivalent Exchange. In those days, we really believed that to be the world's one, and only, truth.
66. Second Request for Forum Game anyone here who how to make something similar to Dragon Fable or Adventure Quest? maybe we should look at getting a more Diablo-esque one. might be fun. might help to reduce inactivity.
alternatively there is a more website based games like on www.darkthrone.com if anyone knows how that was made, prehaps they could look at making one for us.
Please not a text based game or anything close to that. Personally, I hate web-based games alltogether.
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"Cards and flowers on your window, your friends all plead for you to stay,
sometimes beginnings aren't so simple, sometimes goodbye's the only way."
i just remember being hit up a couple of times in a PM about it, so i thought mention it again. I have no strong feelings one way or the other.
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blue text: suggestion black (non bolded text): reply OLD LIST 1. Live Chat and/or shout box -bring back the shoutbox or give us Live Chat -in website shoutbox cannot be done do to inability to properly police it. so an external live chat using IRC has been made you can see it here http://www.diablo3.com/cmps_index.php?page=chat or on IRC here server irc.gamesurge.net channel #diablo3. 2. Deletion of Inactive accounts -do something about the large number of inactive accounts -Umaro: Will not be done at this time, when game is announced we will prune in-active accounts. 3. different names for the post titles -something other than junior member, member, and senior member (prehaps the ones i suggested in my new post names pollsee here) -done, these names were chosen 4. Introductory Posts area -can we get an area for people to post introductory posts, to reduce spam in the other forums -done see here http://www.diablo3.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=24 5. Rework reputation system -The reputation sysytem to actually mean something. -virtually pointless until such a time as a worthy reward for a high reputation is found 6. Links on home page fixed -the 5 or so things on the 'portal home' page in the top left corner that dont work either need to be deleted, or be made to work, esp the gallery and downloads -gallery can be found http://www.diablo3.com/forums/vbpicgallery.php? downloads page will only be made if content can be supplied 7. Screenshot Gallery of the diablo series -a gallery thats full of screenshots from all the diablo series games, and a subsection of submitted char builds with pics, oh and a gallery/subsection for non diablo related pics -Gallery is up and running so its up to the people to use it to supply these things. 8. Top posters -instead of just 1 top poster, show top posters, maybe 5 or so, currently one would have to go the the members list, then clicks posts to see this info -will be implemented if there is time. 9. Set default posting colour and font -if you change the colour/font of your posts, it should stay as the colour you choose instead of reverting back to the default -may proof more trouble that it worth. esp when we had the old layout. black text on black background 10. The spinning stars they do what? -also those 4 spinning stars in the post profile, do they mean anything, i think newer member should have less, and older members should have more, i dont know maybe 1 star for every 250 posts or something like that -they were never fully worked out have since been removed 11. Weaponised cursor -your mouse icon should be a weapon of sorts (sword or axe) from d2, or prehaps the classic gauntlet like in diablo -coding is too much work for that. 12. Links to Guild Threads -a link on the home page directly to the information in the Silversurfnstudism thread and other guild related threads. - Umaro: the guild is not an official part of the home page / fan site, but a seperate forum for such things is not out of the question 14. Diablo Back Story -a link from the front page to the back story of diablo 1 and 2 i am sick of posting that the prime evils can all exist without their soulstones, baals soulstone is smashed, and the other things from the game lore that people should know, and any other point from the storyline that has a definite answer, eg tal rasha is dead, warrior/rogue/sorcerer from diablo are all dead here is the link Umaro http://www.diablo3.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1910&highlight=chronology. so now its up to you. Umaro: When the new layout is finished we will add it with game related content such as this. 15. Soundtrack in the background -not really sure if this can be done, but would be nice, to have the diablo 2 soundtrack play in the background of this site, and of course you can turn it off if you want -bandwidth will be a killer Umaro: sound on a web page is a big no no =) 16. Contact us link not working -Not sure if its just me, but the 'contact us' page at the bottom of the home page doesnt work, it really should, i get that you would get hounded by crap emails but prehaps it could go to a page similar tothe members list, but it only shows admins and mods so people can see who is who and PM them. or would we all get hounded? 17. how to post Pics or make sigs/avatars -not sure if it exists, a link from the home page detailing how to submit pics in posts, create signatures, put a pic under your accountname in your post profile (i get tired of people asking), or alternatively put this info in the FAQ. i (or someone else) will make the thread (and sticky it) if you want to make it so its in the FAQ or whatever that would be great When we do a forum overhaul we can add nice links to this. 18. Incentive to stay as active as possible -not sure how successful this would be, but some kind of incentive to stay active, other websites have points that count towards downloads you cant get anywhere else, its really annoying to see that out of the 2000 accounts on 500 are active and around 20 or so of that 500 post on a regular basis, now i know people can post everyday like some of us can, but it does seem like a waste to create an account then never use it. DeMiNe0: I'm going to talk to umaro about an absence profit sharing system for active posters. This is completely up to him though. -if you could that would be great Umaro: One, we will most likely be removing adsense from the entire site, second, the forums will probably have zero ads, third its a lot of extra coding and those programs almost never generate more then a couple cents for its members. Diablo3.com will think of other ways to repay its loyal fans. 19. Promotion to admin or Mod -also it seems a lot of people are quite fond of the idea of Sliversurfnstud and i (elfen lied) to be made administrators, we seem to know our stuff (but thats your guys call). -enjoy your new ranks boys. 20. Merge Posts -the ability to merge 2 of your posts together, it should be an option not automatic like on some sites -these feature exists but only to mods and admins, just use edit post. 21. Welcome message PM -newcomers to this site, should either be automatically or manually(by someone) PMed a 'hello welcome to this site' message, the should include a quick rundown of the posting rules (the important ones) and the age old 'we hope you enjoy your time here' line. Ill write something up and send it to you 22. Diablo Font -a link somewhere to the diablo font and other cool fonts. well heres the font and its stickied, thats about all i can do http://www.diablo3.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1215 23. Profile change -change the post profile currently it looks like this Username User title i suggest it look like this now Username User title group (if it applies) It seems a waste for mods and admins to lose their post titles just because they gained some responsibility 24. ability to see who is in the chatroom -an area that says who is in the chatroom, that way people will know if it is worth spending time trying to get in there -cant be done, the chatroom is outside of the site the ability to show who is in there in any other way other than the online user lists cannot be done 25. Away/online settings -a feature that allows you do set a time that you will be away, then change it back to online (similar to msn) seeing as accounts cant be deleted -cant be done 26. Flash game -would be cool to have a macromedia flash rpg game of some kind on here. (bandwidth allowing) -a bit of a luxury we dont really need 27. inabilty to read text when deleting posts if not a mod or admin -the yellow text that is seen when you go to delete a post, needs to be change to a colour that shows up better on a white background -taken care of 28. Evidence Page -a dedicated link from the home page to all the evidence that diablo 3 is in the pipeline -taken care of. it has since been removed, but prehaps it could be brought back 29. Help Section an area like general, diablo 3 chat, called Help and support, here new comers can posts their questions about the site, and other people can post questions about the games -done see here http://www.diablo3.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=25 30. Non blizzard games forum -an area like general, diablo 3 chat, for games that arent specifically covered by other areas of this site. this area is for non blizzard games -if the site grows in numbers look toward this happening 31. Animated links on home page -the links at the top of the page could look like they are on fire when you mouse over them, instead of just becoming underlined Umaro: that is not exactly great design... but you will be happy with our new layout 32. Time Zones an area which displays what the time is for the country where a member of this site comes from.(bandwith allowing) it would be nice to know what the time is where your friend/s from this site is so you could organise stuff coding is too much to do 33. slight alteration to a forum's name remove the extra 'r' in polls and surverys. it should read polls and surveys taken care of 34. Item request/trading Not sure if this can be done but an secure area where people can request items, and trade items -its called the trade thread, see here http://www.diablo3.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1427&highlight=item+trading. you will have to trade on battle.net though 35. Biographies Not sure if this can be done, but in the Silversurfnstudism Thread, there are several small Biographies for the Followers of Silver. The question here is would an area for people to post similar Biographies be too hard to create. I know there is an area on the Profile for Biographies but it is fairly small, and the Biographies i am talking about are bigger than what the Profile Biographies can contain. Or alternatively extend the biography area -possible, but other aspects of the site are more important at this stage 36. Quote of the Day a box on the home page contain quotes from characters from diablo 1 and 2, that changes on a regular basis, ie by the hour, day or week. -Umaro: I could possibly add something like this, but its not on the top of the list
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1. Username 2. Usertitle 3. Mod or admin status identification 4. Avatar
*i do apologise for the pics not really being the same*
your hard work posting to get a kickass title like Paladin shouldnt go to waste because your now a mod, plus this way everyone can have a custom title.
38. Renaming on subforums
as this site grows inevitably new areas or forums will be added, i propose the any new areas as well as existing ones be named after areas fro mthe diablo series
-The Introductory area could be named the Rogue Encampment, as in the game this is where noobs start. -The Diablo I discussion forum could be called the Cathedral or the Labyrinth, as this is typically where you spend most fo your time in the game. -The Diablo II LOD discussion forum could be called Harrogath. -an area that required high status such as being a mod or admin could have an appropriate name like the Harem or Pandemonium Fortress. -if the General off topic forum is split into seperate topic areas, the area for discussion of books could be called the Arcane Sanctuary, books possess knowledge, the Sanctuary was built to further acquire knowledge. -The spam area could be named after one of the inns or taverns from the series. you go to an inn of tavern to escape the pressures of life and things, you go to the spam forum to escape the constraints of normal forums.
39. Better policing of Bots/ads
desperately needed is a better way to stop or control the amount of bots present. I dont know much about them other than they are annyoing. Prehaps make it impossible to post a url in your first 5 posts or something, seeing as how most bot posts are links of some kind.
40. a RP (Role Playing) sub forum.
I rather enjoy the art or act of Role Playing, esp in a medieval fantasy sort of a way. but im getting rather sick of having to defeat it. prehaps if it was confined to one specific area, people wouldnt mind it too much.
if such an area is made and sub forums are given names of places from Diablo, i think Travincal or the like is rather fitting, the majority of the RP that goes on around here is based around a holy order, much like the residents of Travincal once were before the taint of Mephisto warped the order of the Zakarum.
41. Philosophical discussion area
an area purely for the discussion of philosophical issues, and in addition to this, someone should be made into a mod, it would be the job of this person to make sure no flame, spam or crap appears in this thread. I think such a job might be best filled by someone like Phrozen Dragon or prehaps even Muttonchops, they both prove themselves to be quite knowledgable on many subjects of a philosophical nature, time and time again.
42. of Mods and Super mods
as the site grows so do does the need for more people to keep check of the day to day goings on of this great site. while the 3 or so of us (Cyks, Silver, and I) are fully capable of this job, we are at present extremely busy with real life matters and are thus unable to mod to our fullest, so prehaps the addition of maybe even 2 or 3 more deserving people would help to better manage things. timezones are what kills us, on occasions some not nice people can spam and post crap between the times we mods log in/out. having people in different time zones (or even in the same timezone but they just dont sleep) will help to stop this especially when the site gets a lot bigger, and at its current rate of growth i think thats highly likely.
Super mods should get a few extra abilities regarding the site. is there any difference between mod and super mod, because it seems like super mod is just a title.
43. Second request for Reputation system reworking.
There has been talk of the concept of forum gold, we used to have a reputation system if it was reworked it could be fairly close to what the people who spoke of frum gold want. but as it really had no purpse it was removed. should a suitable reward of reason for its return it shall be done.
44. Contest/game Area
a sub forum area of the general area for contests and other forum games. The spam section sound probably be split in two, forum games, and the rest of what the spam section holds.
45. Gamer Tags
under the avatars, some forums have next to their MSN and AIM icons their gamer tags as well
So check out this thread at this forum here, and look under their number of posts and you'll see an Xbox icon. You can click on it to view their gamer tag. It's neat. http://www.crius.net/zone/showthread.php?t=21601
46. Colour Scheme
The ability to choose a colour scheme for this site would be nice
47. Count Down Timer
A count down timer for blizzcon or other such events somewhere on this site would be nice
48. Clean up the Side Bar on the home Page
It’s a little cluttered and looks untidy, perhaps it could be broken into separate areas.
49. Donate
Umaro, If you would like it perhaps we could donate some money to keep this site running.
This could lead to the next suggestion..
50. Special Content
is something like special accounts for people who donate to this site out of the question?
i think it would be cool to have a @diablo3.com forwarder or the like. especially for those of us who spend so much time here, and not just spamming here all day long (like some)
51. Separation of the General Off topic forum
This forum is full of many threads that are perhaps deserving of their own sub forum. Music, television, movies, books/comics, anime/manga, etc.
52. Header picture change
The picture at the top of the site seems too friendly lol, perhaps we could have something more diablo-esque?
53. Space on Home Page
I think we could use the space on the homepage better.. a lot of wasted space. i run 1024 x 1280 and about half the width is wasted.
54. Trade forum
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Can we get the trading section put in its own Category? Instead of having one really long thread with everyones trade requests (its a pain to scroll through it all to find what you want) we can do something more like Battle.net's forum map. We'll be able to see the title to a specific trade request in a list of trade requests - newest to oldest. This seems much more organized and will probably increase site traffic
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-Mofrait (P.S. I'm a designer/photographer, I may be able to help if you need it)
55. Male/Female icons
To save further threads like are you a girl, or Arethere any females here being created, prehaps we should have the little icons in your post profile (usually found above you IM programs) to display whether you are male or female (or which ever one you say you are)
56. Spoiler tags
Its soo annoying to read a thread and have something spoiled for you, fortunately forums come with spolier tags, the work similar to quote tags.
what you want to remain hidden
the only way to read what's hidden is to highlight it, that way of you will only see it if you want to, but they dont/arent on this site, they should be.
57. Home Country flags
In your post profile there could be your country's flag, its always good to know wherehter someone doesnt come from the US and/or UK.
58. My Assistant
Some forums have a feature called My assistant, this feature allows you to see who today's top posters were, who the overall top posters are, also your last 10 posts you made, and several other things of interest.
59. Member numbers
some forums display a membership number, its kinda cool to know how long (i.e a lower number) someone has been here
60. Bring back the little note that said how long the site has been running for
A while back in the site statistics along with numbers of threads/posts/members it used to say how many years this site has been running, its was kinda cool to know how long this site has been around, some people might be surprised. (either in a good way or in a bad way)
61. Forum clans.
some forums have different special groups or clans, these clans have there own forum that only they can use, as well as having access to a forum for all the clans, posting in these sections works like a spam area, i.e your post count does not go up. being that this is Diablo, prehaps the classes could be characters such Warrior, Rogue or Sorcerer. 3 is a good number, too many LOD chars i couldnt decide on which ones to not use. or prehaps the clans could be named after the various mage clans or Barbarian tribes or other such groups in Diablo. Clans also boot out members for inactivity, having some content which "forces" activity, might just do this site some good. They also require you remain active for 1 month after joining said clans. it also give you a nifty little icon in your post profile
alternatively we could have SICK be such a clan, might just "force" some activity with SICK. damn inactivity, it bothers me to no end
62.Realm icons
to save further threads like "what realm do you play on" prehaps there could be an icon or something in your user profile that shows which realm you play on.
63. Referrals It would be nice, if possible to see who it is you have referred to this site. I myself currently have 7, it would be nice to know who there are.
64. Active Members Statistic.
was just on www,starcrafttwo.com, this site's brother site, and i noticed one of its stie statistics was Active members, and i was thinking to my self, WTH dont we have that info here?
both sites use the same software as far as i can tell, so displaying active members here should be too hard should it?
65. Second request for Forum gold or points.
was just thinking, an army pays it members for any and all time they serve. prehaps we could do the same, but for those of us actually in SICK. though, i dont think the mechanics of points allows for different amounts, we'd all get the same amount. trouble is, we'd need something to do with the points of forum gold, once we got them. Ive been on a few sites where you cant even get a signature and/or avatar till you have accumulated enough points. Im not saying we need to go that far, but i do think we need something you actually want to save your points up for, maybe custom title or something?
66. Second Request for Forum Game anyone here who how to make something similar to Dragon Fable or Adventure Quest? maybe we should look at getting a more Diablo-esque one. might be fun. might help to reduce inactivity. alternatively there is a more website based games like on www.darkthrone.com if anyone knows how that was made, prehaps they could look at making one for us.
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-Humankind cannot gain anything without first giving something in return. To obtain, something of equal value must be lost. That is alchemy's First Law of Equivalent Exchange. In those days, we really believed that to be the world's one, and only, truth.
Elfen, I believe that, for a new idea, an avatar selection should be created in the editing section. A quick link option would also be nice, for a larger variety, and to help newbs. I, being a forum newb, have no idea how to create my own. Help and feedback please.
A calender update would be nice, lol.
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[SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]"I am Legion, for we are many."
The Rotting:mad:
I don't do look, layout or features for this site, but yes I agree with you about the avatar thing.
Oh and there is an edit button. You don't have to make new posts for each new thought.
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-Humankind cannot gain anything without first giving something in return. To obtain, something of equal value must be lost. That is alchemy's First Law of Equivalent Exchange. In those days, we really believed that to be the world's one, and only, truth.
Merely a suggestion but, I just feel its time the head logo changed. I've never really felt its captured the 'Diabolic' essence.
This is simply me ofcorse. Necro through and through... I need to "Sense death.. in this place"
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rom the steamy recesses of the southern swamps comes a figure cloaked in mystery. The Necromancer, as his name implies, is an unseemly form of sorcerer whose spells deal with the raising of the dead and the summoning and control of various creatures for his purposes (diabloii.net)
Driftwood, That is covered by number 52 in the above list.
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-Humankind cannot gain anything without first giving something in return. To obtain, something of equal value must be lost. That is alchemy's First Law of Equivalent Exchange. In those days, we really believed that to be the world's one, and only, truth.
67. Selecting an Avatar from a group of Images Instead of providing your own image for use as an avatar, some forums provide a wide assortment of images of characters relating to the subject matter for you to pick from to use. We should have that here, The images would more than likely be various pictures of the characters, bosses, NPCs, skills, etc.
68. Display In game Usernames Somewhere in either a person's post profile (the panel just to the left of this text) or their public profile there should be someone to display what usernames they use for LOD, as possibly other games they play, WOW, GW, NWN, WCIII, etc. IT might help avoid any more of those "hey what is everyone's user name on [insert game here]?" thread being made.
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-Humankind cannot gain anything without first giving something in return. To obtain, something of equal value must be lost. That is alchemy's First Law of Equivalent Exchange. In those days, we really believed that to be the world's one, and only, truth.
Forum Gold - you could use it to pay for artists to make sigs/avatars for you. They already have 'shops', and usually shop services aren't there for free.
38. Renaming on subforums - I would like the Storyline section to be called The Library, or even the Arcane Sanctuary is cool if its not used for the other reason it was suggested for.
It kind of depends on which you prefer though. Personally, I would like the forums to be turned into a town in Sanctuary, rather than different parts of Sanctuary put together. This also relates to the map of this site I was talking about making before.
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I prefer things like -
Library (Storyline),
Town Square (General Discussion),
Tavern of Jay (not the name of a tavern already in game somewhere, making up our own is good),
Markets/Blacksmiths (Where the artists make sigs/avatars for you - can kind of be like making weapons/armour)
things like that. but, depends what others prefer.
Forum Gold - you could use it to pay for artists to make sigs/avatars for you. They already have 'shops', and usually shop services aren't there for free.
I never saw the purpose of adding forum gold to this site. Ok, so artists get their gold. What are they going to use it for? Where will regular people get it from? Will we have to consider inflation as more gold is added? Do we need some kind of permanent gold dump to remove excess gold from the market? Can people give each other gold? Can they do fake trades only meant to give people gold? How do we regulate it?
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I prefer things like -
Library (Storyline),
Town Square (General Discussion),
Tavern of Jay (not the name of a tavern already in game somewhere, making up our own is good),
Markets/Blacksmiths (Where the artists make sigs/avatars for you - can kind of be like making weapons/armour)
things like that. but, depends what others prefer.
Perhaps allow a user to customize how they view the forum then, allowing each and everyone to select how they want it? Perhaps that's quite challenging, I don't know. But this is the suggestion forum isn't it?
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I don't know about the other things with forum-gold, I don't even know if I want it implemented. But if it was put in, then thats a good solution on what to use it for, because the previous person who suggested it couldn't think of anything.
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havent heard from in a few days, though, vacation i guess.
yeh there are some others, but lately they are even more inactive than i am.
If i can get my privileges upgraded (again) i suppose i could just do it. i am here (visibly) more than he is.
i used to be able to assign people to groups, wonder when i got demoted.
oh and just a reminder here is the list of suggestions (5th post down)
61. Forum clans.
some forums have different special groups or clans, these clans have there own forum that only they can use, as well as having access to a forum for all the clans, posting in these sections works like a spam area, i.e your post count does not go up.
being that this is Diablo, prehaps the classes could be characters such Warrior, Rogue or Sorcerer. 3 is a good number, too many LOD chars i couldnt decide on which ones to not use.
or prehaps the clans could be named after the various mage clans or Barbarian tribes or other such groups in Diablo.
Clans also boot out members for inactivity, having some content which "forces" activity, might just do this site some good. They also require you remain active for 1 month after joining said clans.
it also give you a nifty little icon in your post profile
alternatively we could have SICK be such a clan, might just "force" some activity with SICK. damn inactivity, it bothers me to no end
62. Realm icons
to save further threads like "what realm do you play on" prehaps there could be an icon or something in your user profile that shows which realm you play on.
63. Referrals
It would be nice, if possible to see who it is you have referred to this site. I myself currently have 7, it would be nice to know who there are.
63. Updating of the Calendar
Update of calendar, it's still not fixed.
uh thats all i can think of right now (but there are probably more)
was just on www,starcrafttwo.com, this site's brother site, and i noticed one of its stie statistics was Active members, and i was thinking to my self, WTH dont we have that info here?
both sites use the same software as far as i can tell, so displaying active members here should be too hard should it?
was just thinking, an army pays it members for any and all time they serve. prehaps we could do the same, but for those of us actually in SICK. though, i dont think the mechanics of points allows for different amounts, we'd all get the same amount.
trouble is, we'd need something to do with the points of forum gold, once we got them. Ive been on a few sites where you cant even get a signature and/or avatar till you have accumulated enough points. Im not saying we need to go that far, but i do think we need something you actually want to save your points up for, maybe custom title or something?
66. Second Request for Forum Game
anyone here who how to make something similar to Dragon Fable or Adventure Quest? maybe we should look at getting a more Diablo-esque one. might be fun. might help to reduce inactivity.
alternatively there is a more website based games like on www.darkthrone.com if anyone knows how that was made, prehaps they could look at making one for us.
"Cards and flowers on your window, your friends all plead for you to stay,
sometimes beginnings aren't so simple, sometimes goodbye's the only way."
We need to have more smiley's/emoticons here. Prehaps we could get some of these ones?
http://www.zeldauniverse.net/forums/misc.php?do=getsmilies&editorid=vB_Editor_001
http://www.sorcerers.net/forums/misc.php?do=getsmilies&editorid=vB_Editor_001
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1. Live Chat and/or shout box
-bring back the shoutbox or give us Live Chat
-in website shoutbox cannot be done do to inability to properly police it. so an external live chat using IRC has been made you can see it here
http://www.diablo3.com/cmps_index.php?page=chat
or on IRC here
server irc.gamesurge.net
channel #diablo3.
2. Deletion of Inactive accounts
-do something about the large number of inactive accounts
-Umaro: Will not be done at this time, when game is announced we will prune in-active accounts.
3. different names for the post titles
-something other than junior member, member, and senior member (prehaps the ones i suggested in my new post names poll see here)
-done, these names were chosen
4. Introductory Posts area
-can we get an area for people to post introductory posts, to reduce spam in the other forums
-done see here http://www.diablo3.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=24
5. Rework reputation system
-The reputation sysytem to actually mean something.
-virtually pointless until such a time as a worthy reward for a high reputation is found
6. Links on home page fixed
-the 5 or so things on the 'portal home' page in the top left corner that dont work either need to be deleted, or be made to work, esp the gallery and downloads
-gallery can be found http://www.diablo3.com/forums/vbpicgallery.php?
downloads page will only be made if content can be supplied
7. Screenshot Gallery of the diablo series
-a gallery thats full of screenshots from all the diablo series games, and a subsection of submitted char builds with pics, oh and a gallery/subsection for non diablo related pics
-Gallery is up and running so its up to the people to use it to supply these things.
8. Top posters
-instead of just 1 top poster, show top posters, maybe 5 or so, currently one would have to go the the members list, then clicks posts to see this info
-will be implemented if there is time.
9. Set default posting colour and font
-if you change the colour/font of your posts, it should stay as the colour you choose instead of reverting back to the default
-may proof more trouble that it worth. esp when we had the old layout. black text on black background
10. The spinning stars they do what?
-also those 4 spinning stars in the post profile, do they mean anything, i think newer member should have less, and older members should have more, i dont know maybe 1 star for every 250 posts or something like that
-they were never fully worked out have since been removed
11. Weaponised cursor
-your mouse icon should be a weapon of sorts (sword or axe) from d2, or prehaps the classic gauntlet like in diablo
-coding is too much work for that.
12. Links to Guild Threads
-a link on the home page directly to the information in the Silversurfnstudism thread and other guild related threads.
- Umaro: the guild is not an official part of the home page / fan site, but a seperate forum for such things is not out of the question
14. Diablo Back Story
-a link from the front page to the back story of diablo 1 and 2
i am sick of posting that the prime evils can all exist without their soulstones, baals soulstone is smashed, and the other things from the game lore that people should know, and any other point from the storyline that has a definite answer, eg tal rasha is dead, warrior/rogue/sorcerer from diablo are all dead
here is the link Umaro http://www.diablo3.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1910&highlight=chronology. so now its up to you.
Umaro: When the new layout is finished we will add it with game related content such as this.
15. Soundtrack in the background
-not really sure if this can be done, but would be nice, to have the diablo 2 soundtrack play in the background of this site, and of course you can turn it off if you want
-bandwidth will be a killer
Umaro: sound on a web page is a big no no =)
16. Contact us link not working
-Not sure if its just me, but the 'contact us' page at the bottom of the home page doesnt work, it really should, i get that you would get hounded by crap emails but prehaps it could go to a page similar tothe members list, but it only shows admins and mods so people can see who is who and PM them. or would we all get hounded?
17. how to post Pics or make sigs/avatars
-not sure if it exists, a link from the home page detailing how to submit pics in posts, create signatures, put a pic under your accountname in your post profile (i get tired of people asking), or alternatively put this info in the FAQ.
i (or someone else) will make the thread (and sticky it) if you want to make it so its in the FAQ or whatever that would be great
When we do a forum overhaul we can add nice links to this.
18. Incentive to stay as active as possible
-not sure how successful this would be, but some kind of incentive to stay active, other websites have points that count towards downloads you cant get anywhere else, its really annoying to see that out of the 2000 accounts on 500 are active and around 20 or so of that 500 post on a regular basis, now i know people can post everyday like some of us can, but it does seem like a waste to create an account then never use it.
DeMiNe0: I'm going to talk to umaro about an absence profit sharing system for active posters. This is completely up to him though.
-if you could that would be great
Umaro: One, we will most likely be removing adsense from the entire site, second, the forums will probably have zero ads, third its a lot of extra coding and those programs almost never generate more then a couple cents for its members. Diablo3.com will think of other ways to repay its loyal fans.
19. Promotion to admin or Mod
-also it seems a lot of people are quite fond of the idea of Sliversurfnstud and i (elfen lied) to be made administrators, we seem to know our stuff (but thats your guys call).
-enjoy your new ranks boys.
20. Merge Posts
-the ability to merge 2 of your posts together, it should be an option not automatic like on some sites
-these feature exists but only to mods and admins, just use edit post.
21. Welcome message PM
-newcomers to this site, should either be automatically or manually(by someone) PMed a 'hello welcome to this site' message, the should include a quick rundown of the posting rules (the important ones) and the age old 'we hope you enjoy your time here' line. Ill write something up and send it to you
22. Diablo Font
-a link somewhere to the diablo font and other cool fonts.
well heres the font and its stickied, thats about all i can do
http://www.diablo3.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1215
23. Profile change
-change the post profile
currently it looks like this
Username
User title
i suggest it look like this now
Username
User title
group (if it applies)
It seems a waste for mods and admins to lose their post titles just because they gained some responsibility
24. ability to see who is in the chatroom
-an area that says who is in the chatroom, that way people will know if it is worth spending time trying to get in there
-cant be done, the chatroom is outside of the site the ability to show who is in there in any other way other than the online user lists cannot be done
25. Away/online settings
-a feature that allows you do set a time that you will be away, then change it back to online (similar to msn) seeing as accounts cant be deleted
-cant be done
26. Flash game
-would be cool to have a macromedia flash rpg game of some kind on here. (bandwidth allowing)
-a bit of a luxury we dont really need
27. inabilty to read text when deleting posts if not a mod or admin
-the yellow text that is seen when you go to delete a post, needs to be change to a colour that shows up better on a white background
-taken care of
28. Evidence Page
-a dedicated link from the home page to all the evidence that diablo 3 is in the pipeline
-taken care of.
it has since been removed, but prehaps it could be brought back
29. Help Section
an area like general, diablo 3 chat, called Help and support, here new comers can posts their questions about the site, and other people can post questions about the games
-done see here http://www.diablo3.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=25
30. Non blizzard games forum
-an area like general, diablo 3 chat, for games that arent specifically covered by other areas of this site. this area is for non blizzard games
-if the site grows in numbers look toward this happening
31. Animated links on home page
-the links at the top of the page could look like they are on fire when you mouse over them, instead of just becoming underlined
Umaro: that is not exactly great design... but you will be happy with our new layout
32. Time Zones
an area which displays what the time is for the country where a member of this site comes from.(bandwith allowing) it would be nice to know what the time is where your friend/s from this site is so you could organise stuff
coding is too much to do
33. slight alteration to a forum's name
remove the extra 'r' in polls and surverys. it should read polls and surveys
taken care of
34. Item request/trading
Not sure if this can be done but an secure area where people can request items, and trade items
-its called the trade thread, see here http://www.diablo3.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1427&highlight=item+trading.
you will have to trade on battle.net though
35. Biographies
Not sure if this can be done, but in the Silversurfnstudism Thread, there are several small Biographies for the Followers of Silver. The question here is would an area for people to post similar Biographies be too hard to create. I know there is an area on the Profile for Biographies but it is fairly small, and the Biographies i am talking about are bigger than what the Profile Biographies can contain. Or alternatively extend the biography area
-possible, but other aspects of the site are more important at this stage
36. Quote of the Day
a box on the home page contain quotes from characters from diablo 1 and 2, that changes on a regular basis, ie by the hour, day or week.
-Umaro: I could possibly add something like this, but its not on the top of the list
37. second request for custom titles for all
currently it looks like this
1. Username
2. Usertitle
3. Avatar
i propose it now look more like this
1. Username
2. Usertitle
3. Mod or admin status identification
4. Avatar
*i do apologise for the pics not really being the same*
your hard work posting to get a kickass title like Paladin shouldnt go to waste because your now a mod, plus this way everyone can have a custom title.
38. Renaming on subforums
as this site grows inevitably new areas or forums will be added, i propose the any new areas as well as existing ones be named after areas fro mthe diablo series
-The Introductory area could be named the Rogue Encampment, as in the game this is where noobs start.
-The Diablo I discussion forum could be called the Cathedral or the Labyrinth, as this is typically where you spend most fo your time in the game.
-The Diablo II LOD discussion forum could be called Harrogath.
-an area that required high status such as being a mod or admin could have an appropriate name like the Harem or Pandemonium Fortress.
-if the General off topic forum is split into seperate topic areas, the area for discussion of books could be called the Arcane Sanctuary, books possess knowledge, the Sanctuary was built to further acquire knowledge.
-The spam area could be named after one of the inns or taverns from the series. you go to an inn of tavern to escape the pressures of life and things, you go to the spam forum to escape the constraints of normal forums.
39. Better policing of Bots/ads
desperately needed is a better way to stop or control the amount of bots present. I dont know much about them other than they are annyoing. Prehaps make it impossible to post a url in your first 5 posts or something, seeing as how most bot posts are links of some kind.
40. a RP (Role Playing) sub forum.
I rather enjoy the art or act of Role Playing, esp in a medieval fantasy sort of a way. but im getting rather sick of having to defeat it. prehaps if it was confined to one specific area, people wouldnt mind it too much.
if such an area is made and sub forums are given names of places from Diablo, i think Travincal or the like is rather fitting, the majority of the RP that goes on around here is based around a holy order, much like the residents of Travincal once were before the taint of Mephisto warped the order of the Zakarum.
41. Philosophical discussion area
an area purely for the discussion of philosophical issues, and in addition to this, someone should be made into a mod, it would be the job of this person to make sure no flame, spam or crap appears in this thread. I think such a job might be best filled by someone like Phrozen Dragon or prehaps even Muttonchops, they both prove themselves to be quite knowledgable on many subjects of a philosophical nature, time and time again.
42. of Mods and Super mods
as the site grows so do does the need for more people to keep check of the day to day goings on of this great site. while the 3 or so of us (Cyks, Silver, and I) are fully capable of this job, we are at present extremely busy with real life matters and are thus unable to mod to our fullest, so prehaps the addition of maybe even 2 or 3 more deserving people would help to better manage things. timezones are what kills us, on occasions some not nice people can spam and post crap between the times we mods log in/out. having people in different time zones (or even in the same timezone but they just dont sleep) will help to stop this especially when the site gets a lot bigger, and at its current rate of growth i think thats highly likely.
Super mods should get a few extra abilities regarding the site. is there any difference between mod and super mod, because it seems like super mod is just a title.
43. Second request for Reputation system reworking.
There has been talk of the concept of forum gold, we used to have a reputation system if it was reworked it could be fairly close to what the people who spoke of frum gold want. but as it really had no purpse it was removed. should a suitable reward of reason for its return it shall be done.
44. Contest/game Area
a sub forum area of the general area for contests and other forum games. The spam section sound probably be split in two, forum games, and the rest of what the spam section holds.
45. Gamer Tags
under the avatars, some forums have next to their MSN and AIM icons their gamer tags as well
So check out this thread at this forum here, and look under their number of posts and you'll see an Xbox icon. You can click on it to view their gamer tag. It's neat.
http://www.crius.net/zone/showthread.php?t=21601
46. Colour Scheme
The ability to choose a colour scheme for this site would be nice
47. Count Down Timer
A count down timer for blizzcon or other such events somewhere on this site would be nice
48. Clean up the Side Bar on the home Page
It’s a little cluttered and looks untidy, perhaps it could be broken into separate areas.
49. Donate
Umaro, If you would like it perhaps we could donate some money to keep this site running.
This could lead to the next suggestion..
50. Special Content
is something like special accounts for people who donate to this site out of the question?
i think it would be cool to have a @diablo3.com forwarder or the like. especially for those of us who spend so much time here, and not just spamming here all day long (like some)
51. Separation of the General Off topic forum
This forum is full of many threads that are perhaps deserving of their own sub forum. Music, television, movies, books/comics, anime/manga, etc.
52. Header picture change
The picture at the top of the site seems too friendly lol, perhaps we could have something more diablo-esque?
53. Space on Home Page
I think we could use the space on the homepage better.. a lot of wasted space. i run 1024 x 1280 and about half the width is wasted.
54. Trade forum
55. Male/Female icons
To save further threads like are you a girl, or Arethere any females here being created, prehaps we should have the little icons in your post profile (usually found above you IM programs) to display whether you are male or female (or which ever one you say you are)
56. Spoiler tags
Its soo annoying to read a thread and have something spoiled for you, fortunately forums come with spolier tags, the work similar to quote tags.
the only way to read what's hidden is to highlight it, that way of you will only see it if you want to, but they dont/arent on this site, they should be.
57. Home Country flags
In your post profile there could be your country's flag, its always good to know wherehter someone doesnt come from the US and/or UK.
58. My Assistant
Some forums have a feature called My assistant, this feature allows you to see who today's top posters were, who the overall top posters are, also your last 10 posts you made, and several other things of interest.
59. Member numbers
some forums display a membership number, its kinda cool to know how long (i.e a lower number) someone has been here
60. Bring back the little note that said how long the site has been running for
A while back in the site statistics along with numbers of threads/posts/members it used to say how many years this site has been running, its was kinda cool to know how long this site has been around, some people might be surprised. (either in a good way or in a bad way)
61. Forum clans.
some forums have different special groups or clans, these clans have there own forum that only they can use, as well as having access to a forum for all the clans, posting in these sections works like a spam area, i.e your post count does not go up.
being that this is Diablo, prehaps the classes could be characters such Warrior, Rogue or Sorcerer. 3 is a good number, too many LOD chars i couldnt decide on which ones to not use.
or prehaps the clans could be named after the various mage clans or Barbarian tribes or other such groups in Diablo.
Clans also boot out members for inactivity, having some content which "forces" activity, might just do this site some good. They also require you remain active for 1 month after joining said clans.
it also give you a nifty little icon in your post profile
alternatively we could have SICK be such a clan, might just "force" some activity with SICK. damn inactivity, it bothers me to no end
62.Realm icons
to save further threads like "what realm do you play on" prehaps there could be an icon or something in your user profile that shows which realm you play on.
63. Referrals
It would be nice, if possible to see who it is you have referred to this site. I myself currently have 7, it would be nice to know who there are.
64. Active Members Statistic.
was just on www,starcrafttwo.com, this site's brother site, and i noticed one of its stie statistics was Active members, and i was thinking to my self, WTH dont we have that info here?
both sites use the same software as far as i can tell, so displaying active members here should be too hard should it?
65. Second request for Forum gold or points.
was just thinking, an army pays it members for any and all time they serve. prehaps we could do the same, but for those of us actually in SICK. though, i dont think the mechanics of points allows for different amounts, we'd all get the same amount.
trouble is, we'd need something to do with the points of forum gold, once we got them. Ive been on a few sites where you cant even get a signature and/or avatar till you have accumulated enough points. Im not saying we need to go that far, but i do think we need something you actually want to save your points up for, maybe custom title or something?
66. Second Request for Forum Game
anyone here who how to make something similar to Dragon Fable or Adventure Quest? maybe we should look at getting a more Diablo-esque one. might be fun. might help to reduce inactivity.
alternatively there is a more website based games like on www.darkthrone.com if anyone knows how that was made, prehaps they could look at making one for us.
I, being a forum newb, have no idea how to create my own.
Help and feedback please.
A calender update would be nice, lol.
The Rotting:mad:
I don't do look, layout or features for this site, but yes I agree with you about the avatar thing.
Oh and there is an edit button. You don't have to make new posts for each new thought.
This is simply me ofcorse. Necro through and through... I need to "Sense death.. in this place"
Instead of providing your own image for use as an avatar, some forums provide a wide assortment of images of characters relating to the subject matter for you to pick from to use. We should have that here, The images would more than likely be various pictures of the characters, bosses, NPCs, skills, etc.
68. Display In game Usernames
Somewhere in either a person's post profile (the panel just to the left of this text) or their public profile there should be someone to display what usernames they use for LOD, as possibly other games they play, WOW, GW, NWN, WCIII, etc. IT might help avoid any more of those "hey what is everyone's user name on [insert game here]?" thread being made.
Forum Gold - you could use it to pay for artists to make sigs/avatars for you. They already have 'shops', and usually shop services aren't there for free.
38. Renaming on subforums - I would like the Storyline section to be called The Library, or even the Arcane Sanctuary is cool if its not used for the other reason it was suggested for.
It kind of depends on which you prefer though. Personally, I would like the forums to be turned into a town in Sanctuary, rather than different parts of Sanctuary put together. This also relates to the map of this site I was talking about making before.
EDIT:
I prefer things like -
Library (Storyline),
Town Square (General Discussion),
Tavern of Jay (not the name of a tavern already in game somewhere, making up our own is good),
Markets/Blacksmiths (Where the artists make sigs/avatars for you - can kind of be like making weapons/armour)
things like that. but, depends what others prefer.
Perhaps allow a user to customize how they view the forum then, allowing each and everyone to select how they want it? Perhaps that's quite challenging, I don't know. But this is the suggestion forum isn't it?