BriDynN: TWG's Community Initiative Project
 

Hey guys, I'm finally doing this!

If you didn't know, now you know: TWG on FFR is in a unique, unsure, transitory period. The activity in games has been all over the place, some questionable setups have been run, and the traditional style of FFR TWG has nearly disappeared; it's all far from a golden age. However, there are people as passionate as ever about this game and it's community, and want to work in it's best interests. At the same time, we are attracting a lot of new blood, bolstering our playerbase, and it's important that we are welcoming to them and provide them a good experience. It's quite heartwarming, but with that said, it's apparent that the TWG subforum is falling short in some areas.

We would do well to make some improvements and do some house cleaning around these forums, in order to both create more enjoyable experiences for those who are already active players, and expand our potential reach to more people. As comfortable as the status quo gets, sometimes old, inefficient institutions must make way for the new, and as a former TWC member and general steward of this community (that is very glad to see its revival), I feel that I must take up the charge once again and put forth some initiatives to make things better, more elegant, and more inviting for all. Of course, since these issues concern all players to some degree, it's fair -- indeed, essential -- to involve the whole community and welcome their opinions and ideas on such projects.

That is what this thread is for. Here, any proposal that people wish to put forth for the betterment of TWG shall be considered, discussed, and if it garners enough support by the community, I will work with the proposer and the local moderators if necessary to try and make it happen.

ON THE TABLE

1. Host Signups Reform

Proposed by: Brilliant Dynamite Neon

Now, I know people here aren't dumb. They are mostly capable of making good decisions, and have the capacity to look at things critically and spot potential problems. But that ability seems to have fallen by the wayside on several occasions when choosing the game to be hosted. Now I'm aware a lot of things can potentially be to blame for that. But personally, I feel that the biggest culprit is the antiquated way in which host signups are run.

The current system is messy and how it works does not match up with its apparent aims -- to let the community decide the best, most sound game to host. It has near-zero regulation, gives little incentive for prospective hosts to think in depth about their games, gives even less incentive for prospective players to do so, and is hardly democratic. I would think it obvious that a lack of organization in host sign-ups is simply not conducive to careful consideration, especially when a mere 5 votes is apparently enough to decide the victor and completely close off the discussion (which really hurts its inclusiveness as well.) As such, people usually don't have much time to form any "reads" on the game's possibilities, and those who simply couldn't be there are just screwed.

In addition, the low amount of votes needed in combination with the lack of a decisive voting period leaves host signups vulnerable to "hype wagons", where tons of people rushvote someone's game because it has a cool story/theme or other superficial appeal, or grips people with a unique concept. The extremely short time frame in which the decision is made...well, for one, it doesn't include the community very much, and two, it's bad for people actually looking at the game and thinking critically about it. This can come back to bite us when we vote in a setup that turns out to have major issues down the road, but it's perfectly allowable under the current system, and thus people once thought it was acceptable. Even with increasing awareness recently, usually by the time something imbalanced is discovered, the game is already underway and everyone tends to suffer for it (TWG CIV majorly, TWG CV to a lesser degree)

So, how can we change Host Signups to resolve these kinds of issues?

My idea is to run host signups in 2 stages, a very simplified version of my previous idea:

PROPOSAL STAGE - This is where hosts post their game writeups, and things are open for questions and feedback as per usual. What is unusual is that nobody votes at this stage.

VOTING STAGE - This is where people may vote on the game setups as usual, only there is an expected time frame for voting now. There is no "insta-host"; whichever has the most votes by deadline gets picked. (And of course if there is a tie we can hold a shorter second round of voting.)

IMO the stages should last at least 2 days each, but this is open to discussion. I think 2 days/3 days is a good boilerplate.

I think a system like this one addresses the problems on several levels. In general, it's a process designed to make people think about their participation in host signups as both voter and host.

TOPICS FOR DEBATE:
– Ideal length of the stages
– Sufficiency of the in-thread discussion to ensure balance (linked to Proposal 4, Bring Back The Workshop)

2. New History Threads

Proposed by: Brilliant Dynamite Neon

As evidenced, this is already being worked on, starting with the mainline games. Once that thread is finished, I will work on the history of jTWGs too.

While I'm mentioning it, I would like to again call attention to thesunfan who is being a huge help. He is working from the most recent games down and his pace is putting me to shame. I am very thankful for him.

Anyways, chronicling the history of games is obviously important. Those who don’t learn their history are doomed to repeat it! There can be learning experiences on all fronts by looking through past games, people can learn what did and didn't work in the past, and why. Also, when someone refers to a past game, someone can quickly look it up and find out what they're talking about.

TOPICS FOR DEBATE:
– BDN being a lazy bastard and not updating

3. A New, Comprehensive Beginner's Guide and Knowledgebase

Proposed by: Brilliant Dynamite Neon

Okay, I'm not one to demean others' work, and there's no doubt both parties were very sincere and great in their intentions. But frankly, I feel that both of the current "Beginner's Guides" in TWG are very inadequate. StoicRoivas' is very surface level and doesn't get into how players actually conduct themselves in game, while rzr's is awkward and scattershot (despite his attempts to actually characterize a game), grabbing for too many things, including stuff such as Items and Conversions that have no place in an introduction to TWG.

I am currently working on an outline for a new guide that should be much more helpful than either of the above two, and also a system of community contributions, such as articles and game commentaries, that can serve as further teaching tools.

Manti, I have made a general outline of topics I want covered with some scribblings of my own in some places; contact me if you still want to see and/or collaborate on this.

4. Bring Back The Workshop

Proposed by: Brilliant Dynamite Neon

No matter what type of game you are running, balance is crucial, and is the center of discussion in any Host Signup thread. This is common sense: the more balanced a game is, the more the outcome of the game will depend on the skill of the players, therefore the more enjoyable it will be for the players. This concern is especially dire for mystery games, which by design can only be run once, and will turn out to be a massive disappointment if it's balance is poor.

The crucial question is, is discussion in the thread good enough to balance games?

The easiest answer is that it depends on the game in question. And to me that alone is enough to warrant a dedicated place for game review. Some games have mechanics or role combinations that people can't grasp the full consequences of in the time given. Some people just don't think their games are ready and want to get them looked over before they visit them on the unwitting playerbase. Every case is different and it is important that there is a resource available for people who think their games need directed/intensive review.

I will be collecting arguments on both sides for this issue.

5. A Place For General TWG Related Discussion

Proposed by: Brilliant Dynamite Neon

This is pretty simple. People want to discuss TWG! They want to talk about events in past games, they want to talk general theory and role/game ideas, they want to know people's opinion on good Serial Killer play...the list is endless. The obvious problem? We have no place to do so. Everything in here is a Game Thread, or a Signup Thread, or a Postgame thread; none of these welcome discussion, and when there is such discussion it is not organized at all. Having a subforum would take care of these issues. Recently, Zageron was requested to help us out in this regard, which resulted in the move to a main forum and the addition of a test subforum, so it looks like we're on track to do this?

Danceguy, can I get an update on this, I believe it is you who contacted me about plans to have archive/discussion subforums.

6. jTWG?

Proposed by: Jurs, others



(but I'll get to this later.)

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So if you have any commentary on the above ideas, go ahead! Or maybe even propose your own idea, and I can add it to the OP for consideration? I hope to make this thread pretty much an open forum for you guys -- a sort of suggestion box for the community at large to consider.

Fire away!

Re: BriDynN: TWG's Community Initiative Project
 

A few of my thoughts:

Section 1.

In regards to the proposal stage and voting stage, I would say that those are actually swapped. For example, people might choose a playstyle over another and have a majority vote for that. After it has reached a majority vote, then the tweaking stage can begin. I feel as though these should be within the same thread, because if the tweaking happens to break the game or shows significant flaws in it, people can go right back into some of the other game options during that time.

Section 2.

Thank you Greg. You are doing a great job, keep it up. A history thread isn't needed in my opinion, but is really REALLY nice to have. For example, if I want to get a better read on TPS I might go ahead and look at his activity from his previous games to see how he plays. In my opinion, keep it going.

Section 3.

I really need the opinion of some of the newbies who played this past game to really have some strong feedback for this section. What I did this past game was kind of throw them into the fire and help them along the way. For example, in regards to Kayla (USA) or Mikeh (Russia) if they had ANY questions at all they would approach me, and I would help them out every step of the way without pursuing their moves or actions. Pretty much just rule clarification. I feel as though it worked pretty well, however there are cases such as Jon (Greece) where it didn't work as well.... then again he never really approached me until it was too late haha.

Section 4.

No opinion as of now.

Section 5.

The skype group IMO. It's a great hub that's used outside of the forums. If you are not in that skype group, hit me up.

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My thought on section 1 - have you ever considered having a person who is new to hosting a game have a more experienced co-host help them run their game? I would imagine it's rather intimidating for somebody doing it the first time, and despite the safeguards we have to make a good game it doesn't always turn out that way when the game itself is played. I would think that having an experienced host co-host with a new host on their first game would serve as a beneficial way to help teach them how to run a game as well as ensure that the quality of the game is maintained in the event they begin to slip up.

My thought on section 5 - Agreed with the below poster. Skype could definitely work, but what about a sub-forum as well? Active players could be invited to utilize this forum when real-time chat is not necessary or feasible.

Re: BriDynN: TWG's Community Initiative Project
 

Yes, I agree with section one. We also need to keep the delay between the time where a game is voted into being played and the time that signups start. 48 hours worked really well this time around.

Section 2- I've started with some jTWGs as well, and I intend to bring a lot more things to the table once I finish the obvious (ie, writing histories) such as lifetime win-loss records, winning-est wolves, winning-est humans, and all kinds of SportsCenter-esque statistics.

Section 3- Yes, we need a new Beginner's Handbook to FFR TWG. We also should probably redraw up the rules since its not 2001 anymore than the Werewolf Council no longer exists, plus some rules are out of date/not followed anymore.

Sections 4 & 5 will receive comments once BDN gets more power.

Re: BriDynN: TWG's Community Initiative Project
 

1 : I would have also suggested those two stages to be swapped. It's easier to come to a consensus upon tweaking the game's rules when you can focus on one game's rulings only. I would also advise to regroup the two stages into one thread, and to find a proper logistic for doing so. Three preparatory threads would be a lot for a single game.

Also, I was always fond of the idea of having "event games" with a fixed restriction, where games suggested revolve around the same format or concept. You know, in times where we need to revert to simpler formats or whatever.

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2 : An archival helps big time, it's nice to see a cleanup underway.

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3: I support the idea of brewing a new, more comprehensive and "to the point" beginner's guide. I don't think both older threads achieved what they were aiming for. I never really understood much of them and instead went to Mafiascum for information.

Imo, it might be a good idea to divide it into two parts, with the basics and references into one (roles summary, terminology, game rundown etc.) and an index of advices or common question into the other.

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Section 3 - BDN lets collab on this sometime. I have some ideas for helping newer people out as well.

Re: BriDynN: TWG's Community Initiative Project
 

good stuff, BDN.


5 - the Skype group is helpful for sure, but a little something more could help. IMs are cumbersome to sort through and find old messages.

not sure if a sub-subforum is necessary (or possible with this forum software). maybe move it to a separate site?

Re: BriDynN: TWG's Community Initiative Project
 

I'm not even aware of what the skype group is.

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I was going to make a topic for this post, but this thread is relevant enough:

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So I just was looking at TWG postgames as a whole, and I couldn't help but notice:

Wolves win a lot lately.

And I think I know the reason for that. There's a recurring pattern in game design: We have a lot of people per game. And to compensate, we have games with a lot of wolves. But the sad reality is that a lot of players completely drop off the planet and we subsequently have a lot of inactive players per game. Players that sometimes take some time to replace.

Do you see the problem?

This is TWG hardmode. When there's even a 2-3 player pool of humans that aren't playing the game, wolves can easily have 2-3 people play entirely under the radar and get away with it because humans can't afford to flip coins to find wolves. A void of information gives a disproportional advantage to wolves.

Another problem with Big TWGs is that even in ideal circumstances, with every player generating discussion, the threads become HUGE. This makes following the thread take more time and therefore become exponentially more difficult. This is tough on the players, and especially tough on the replacements.

I feel like this just isn't what TWG is. TWG should be a more moderate number of players that are all actively participating in the game, with a realistic amount of discussion to keep 100% on track of. Hosts should keep up with their thread and remove anyone who completely vanishes for periods over 72+ hours. Even if life happens for a while, it's fine - replacement is just something that happens too. Join the next TWG. Whatever, dude. We shouldn't be overloading ourselves or signing up for games we don't have time to play anyway.

Re: BriDynN: TWG's Community Initiative Project
 

i highly advise only changing one or two things at a time BDN

Re: BriDynN: TWG's Community Initiative Project
 

You've been in it since its inception lol.

Honestly, wolves are on a streak, and BOTH sides get replacements a fair deal, and its rather annoying, but its not apparent how related it is. AFK humans have been a problem since the inception of this game, and while I do entirely believe that it needs to be addressed, possibly in the way Afrobean stated in the postgame thread, both sides have been getting replaced recently, look at Japan being replaced by Sweden, who was almost immediately replaced by Scotland after that last game.

Re: BriDynN: TWG's Community Initiative Project
 

ugh skype is so bad and also the worst.

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that's a game-specific thing. if you're playing in a game and you can't be arsed to read someone's posts, tell them. yell at them. plead with them. threaten to lynch them. make it part of the game.

there won't be restrictions on how short or long posts can be.

Re: BriDynN: TWG's Community Initiative Project
 

Me either. I wasn't even aware that Skype did groups like that. My name is Afrobean if anyone wants to hook me up there.

Regarding what Tokzic said: yes, games are probably too big. There are enough people who want to play, but not enough people who actually play. I think rather than aiming for 20 players with 5 wolves and 4 or more replacements, we should shoot for 16 players with about 4 wolves and NO replacements. Or even smaller perhaps! If there are extra players who couldn't make sign ups, run a secondary game at the same time.

Re: BriDynN: TWG's Community Initiative Project
 

yeah smaller the better like 4 players.

oh wait i think there was a 4 player game that was floated a while back

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@Afro

Added ya. I'll toss ya in when you are on

Re: BriDynN: TWG's Community Initiative Project
 

the host signups are the only game-related thing listed up there. what's the concern?

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The idea of voting on a game first and then tweaking it makes sense, I guess, but I feel like it'd be better to have games proposed in a separate workshop thread and then introduced as a game if no issues are had with it in whatever host signup thread. I can understand a need to revamp the voting process, but I dislike the idea of a pool, why not just have a time (48 hours, I guess, as the OP states) that voting occurs and have for/against options rather than just for? I get that it'd be a little unnecessary if it were a binary decision but in something with multiple options it might make things a bit more clear.

Alternatively, a window in which the host ideas can be submitted and then a later voting period (is that how it is now? it seems like everything just happens at once to me) or something, the voting period (maybe) including a for/against option if necessary...

Re: BriDynN: TWG's Community Initiative Project
 

didn't you put that on the table when you were in the middle of hosting that one where we had five day lapses in discussion

Re: BriDynN: TWG's Community Initiative Project
 

LEt's go starting with the Host Sign-ups revamp. It's the one that controls most of what TWG in FFR will be.

I'll join what other people have said, about flipping the phases proposed, although in the voting phase I think there should be a definite time for proposing games, and then the rest for the votes themselves.

Re: BriDynN: TWG's Community Initiative Project
 

making too many changes quickly may cause people to become unfamiliar with the forum but moreso having a huge project makes the task daunting and unmanageable whereas doing it bits and pieces makes it so one may actually accomplish

for many reasons you want to break a project up into components and handle them one at a time, each thing will probably generate quite a bit of discussion, take a good chunk of time, and change the feel of this place

i think changing the host sign-ups and rewriting the history thread are overall really positive changes and we shouldn't spread ourselves thin until those are done unless there are more volunteers to do the work of freshening this place up </manager>

Re: BriDynN: TWG's Community Initiative Project
 

I agree with you 100%, however I do think we should have a general TWG discussion forum (or at least thread) and it would take very minimal effort to do this. Skype really doesn't cut it, it's an instant messenger, we can't have all of our forum discussion go on in there.

As for the other ideas, especially the new player's guide, I agree we may be getting in over our heads. I would be willing to help out if possible (though right now is not a good time, in a few weeks when my hands have healed I can help). If we all work together we can make these major projects seem easy peasy~

Re: BriDynN: TWG's Community Initiative Project
 

ok now I get it, just an order of operations. good deal.

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There is one change that I want more than anything: Scheduled routine signup threads.

We used to do this a while back. Once the host and game are voted on, we set a designated date and time for signups. We divide the signups into two phases, with each phase allowing half the player pool to signup.

You set those two signup phases on the same day, but hours apart, to accommodate for people who live in different time zones/work different hours.

Example: TWG XXL: 18 players. First 9 signup up at 5PM EST, Last 9 signup at 10PM EST. No one can signup before 5PM EST, and once the first 9 fill that up, you wait until 10PM EST to have another chance to signup.

This will prevent people from missing out on signups when they genuinely wanted to play. The established timeframes should be boldly advertised not only in the hosting thread, but also in the title of the signup thread (and edited to reflect when the first period begins, ends; while also noting when the 2nd period of signups opens and ends).

As long as we can carry this out in a 3 step phase (Host/Game/Signup times), it should simplify and improve the signup process altogether.

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i think there should be 4 or 5 phases, with two panels, one for host signups and one for player sign ups

but then we will need a couple more phases to nominate the panels for each set for each game, and then the phases for nominating the panels that will nominate the panels

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I don't know why we stopped doing this. Lets start again.

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I agree. I approve of this.

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I'll concur with that.

Re: BriDynN: TWG's Community Initiative Project
 

Hey guys, sorry I haven't responded to anything, I've been catching up with schoolwork due to my visit to the doctor last week and closures this week. I'll update the OP and address everyone's responses as soon as I am able.

Re: BriDynN: TWG's Community Initiative Project
 

Definitely support splitting signup times again. Anythign pro-inclusivity is good

Sorry guys, I really wanna get into this tonight but right now I can't focus on anything and my eyes just wanna close. Good night everyone

But yeah, these things are basically in priority order to get done, and I will be definitely devoting my time to this thread tomorrow.

Re: BriDynN: TWG's Community Initiative Project
 

Okay, so looking at all the suggestions, here's how I think the new Host Signups are going to go down.

OPENING OF THREAD
This is where the host of the previous game will start the thread, and post a specific time when they're going to kick off the signups. At this stage, people declare Intent to Vote in the thread.

PROPOSAL STAGE: Proposal of Games
This is where people put their games up for the vote as usual, nothing much changed here.

VOTING STAGE: Voting for Games
In the voting stage, everyone who declared ITV during the opening stage votes on whichever game they would like to play in. Host counts votes as normal, but only people who declared ITV will be included, so in this way it's like counting votes during a game. We can even have "insta-host" at a majority of all votes as well; at your discretion of course.

Alternatively, we can skip the registration in Opening Stage and just have a deadline for voting, counting anybody who votes (this also means that the previous host can skip the Opening stuff and post the Signups Thread whenever he feels postgame discussion is flagging). Of course, this would make it unfair to have an instant win condition, as there's no way of telling what an actual majority will be.

DISCUSSION STAGE: Learning About the Setup
In this stage, all players can now look at the selected game critically and ask any questions, raise any concerns about balance, etc. and the host can perform minor tweaks as he or she sees fit. However, there should not be huge changes or things that break the spirit of the game that's trying to be hosted. People shouldn't vote one thing

Xiz has a great idea; if there does arise such a situation where legitimate concerns in the winning game cannot be acceptably addressed and there is a failure to launch, we can take the runner-up game and go from there.

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The thing about this approach is that it doesn't support general review of game setups. While I'll give you the fact that it's not necessarily what people want, and it is more efficient to focus on the games that is actually going to be played, if we go with something like this, I think resurrecting the Game Workshop would indeed be necessary, so people aren't stuck never getting feedback for their games and can make them as presentable as possible for proposal.

I think this is the soundest "workflow" for the process though. Still debating how long these stages should be. This is definitely as refined as it needs to be.

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OTHER THINGS:

@Manti: I have a rough outline of a good Beginner's Guide and the topics it will cover, and I will get in contact with you ASAP to discuss it.

History thread stuff is underway and doesn't really affect things too much.

Everything else I think would best be considered later. I will still write something for them though.

Re: BriDynN: TWG's Community Initiative Project
 

hey all! we should renovate the host signups process soon. :!:

Re: BriDynN: TWG's Community Initiative Project
 

Yup. We just reverted back to our old method, no thanks to me

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Can we get a queue system going?

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Well the thing with queue systems is, there was one on another site I used to play on, and it was queued up with a wait time of like 3 years, and most of the time, once someone's game finally got up, the person had long since left the site...

We'd need a sort of activity check.

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I dislike the idea of a queue because people's tastes will waver between games. Mine do at least; I'm the kid that wants to try all the different flavors of ice-cream, I can't be happy with just strawberry or whatever. Also, its a pretty big bonerkill to have to wait possibly weeks or months to host a game.

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I'd be willing to take on the project of putting together a detailed history of FFR(and ffya) TWGs IF I can get one or two to volunteers to help me(100+ games is a lot). Right now the history thread is incomplete but I would like to go all the way back to include a number of statistics: (inspired by devonin's annoying post in the chit chat thread)

-Total number of wolf/human wins
-Total number of wins for individual players
-Total number of games played for individuals
-Total number of votes for individuals as human and wolf
-Average day game ends on with wolf/human victory

I would also include other interesting history(the council...) and take note of when it happened. This is a lot of information which is why I would like some help. I'll still probably do it anyway even if nobody wants to take this on with me. If there is anything else(statistics) people are interested in looking for let me know.

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Just an FYI, BDN and sunfan have been doing this for a while now, I think they're pretty close to done on the whole history part.

I know only 30 games are currently posted, but I'm pretty sure they have a lot more done "behind the scenes"

Also V started doing FFya's, but I don't know how far he got.

Re: BriDynN: TWG's Community Initiative Project
 

Just saw that. Usually don't read before opening my mouth. Depending on where they are I'd still like to help.

Re: BriDynN: TWG's Community Initiative Project
 

Shoot BDN and Sunfan PMs. I'm sure they'd be more then happy for the help.

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Sorry for abandoning this.

Yes, I think the host signups change needs to be officiated, but on the other hand I think it was doing just fine when it was one stage to propose games, and one stage with a public plurality vote which ended at a deadline.

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Also, with the histories, all the main game records are finished, I just have to hand-edit all the formatting and correct errors to post them. The mainline games are finished, it's just the jTWGs that are missing now. Maybe having some records would be nice (LLF does this nicely)

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BDN, I have the jTWG's updated, there were only like 10 or so that needed to be done. They also need to be reformatted, but I can put 'em in the dropbox if you want.

Re: BriDynN: TWG's Community Initiative Project
 

we have archive subforum now. :!:

manti could you start moving old signup/game/postgame threads into archive?

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I don't really want to move everything over to the archive forum, We'd have nothing left here.

I'm thinking about moving the games over in order, I'm just worried it's going to break BDN's links in the History Thread.

Re: BriDynN: TWG's Community Initiative Project
 

wouldn't moving only the games be kinda funky? all of the old games in archives, and all of the old signup threads and postgame threads in the main forum?

how bout always just keeping the current year's threads in the main forum? I think that's what I would do.

yeah I was curious about the links thing too. I wanna say the URL doesn't change, but if it does I would offer to fix all of them.


edit: now that I think about it I think what you said makes sense. moving only the game threads into the subforum would make them easy to peruse. I'm dumb


edit2: I do think leaving almost nothing in the main forum could work though. check this out, I really like the look actually.
http://www.yugiohforums.com/forumdisplay.php?f=117&

Re: BriDynN: TWG's Community Initiative Project
 

All updated and squeaky clean!~

Let's have some new discussion soon!

Re: BriDynN: TWG's Community Initiative Project
 

TWG Discussions subforum is probably a no-go. I'm game to work on finding an alternative, which I think would be worthwhile.

we do have a chives subforum :cool: let's see what you got manti :cool:

Re: BriDynN: TWG's Community Initiative Project
 

TWG History Thread v2 is basically done

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Gonna be a long post -

History To do's

TWG X - Host Comments

TWG XII - Host Comments

TWG XIII - HansSky is MVP

TWG XV - Host Comments and MVP are in below quote, edit around and such please
TWG XVI - BlahBlah18 looks like he should get MVP
---------- Host comments

TWG XVII - Host Comments - MVP
----------- Remove this line "Redid the role reveal because young!Kilga has terrible taste in colors/names"


TWG XIX - MVP


TWG XXIII - MVP - Host Comments
Will get more later.

Re: BriDynN: TWG's Community Initiative Project
 

Thank you everyone who helped update this. Seriously, mad respect.

Re: BriDynN: TWG's Community Initiative Project
 

can I help you guys out with anything? I'm gonna have a bunch of free time starting in a week or two

Re: BriDynN: TWG's Community Initiative Project
 

Dance, If you want to create a listing of things the history thread is missing in the first draft, i'll edit them in.

I'm going to move Game threads and postgame threads only to the Chives Subforum and start cleaning that up.

My free time should explode in a week or two. (q1 filing will be done, summer leads to a drastic drop in things needing to be done at work.)

Re: BriDynN: TWG's Community Initiative Project
 

Bring back the Junior TWGs. This way people new to the game or people that aren't quite up to par can still enjoy themselves. I hold no delusions that a jTWG will be any less cutthroat and brutal than a normal one, but the plays and strategies will be a bit less involved.

I'd also like to bring up how TGB's edition of TWG is now in its fourth incarnation. Congratulations on a successful experiment, guys. I think you could easily go to 10 or more.

Re: BriDynN: TWG's Community Initiative Project
 

if you want to make a serious proposal, I think you should start a thread to discuss.

Re: BriDynN: TWG's Community Initiative Project
 

I think I may start a thread on running jTWG kind of like how they run newbie games on MS. With like an IC who can help explain to the new players, and two other vets. 6 new players sign up for a 9p game, most likely Matrix6 or 2of4, or F11 even. And then we just rotate a pool of vets.

Re: BriDynN: TWG's Community Initiative Project
 

I would question if we have a high enough number of interested new players for that to be worthwhile

Re: BriDynN: TWG's Community Initiative Project
 

manti let me know if this is at all what you were asking for or if I should do more digging for any of these.


XXIV - MVP

XXVI - MVP

XXVII - MVP

XXVIII - MVP

XXIX - MVP

XXXI - MVP

XXXII - MVP

XXXIII - MVP, host comments

XL - MVP

XLVI - MVP, host comments

XLVII - MVP, host comments were kinda weak

XLVIII - MVP

XLIX - MVP, host comments

LII - host comments

LIII - MVP

LIX - MVP

LXI - MVP

LXV - MVP

LXXI - host comments

LXXII - MVP

LXXIV - MVP

LXXV - MVP, host comments were kinda weak

LXXVI - host comments were kinda weak

LXXXI - host comments were kinda weak

LXXXIII - MVP

LXXXIV - host comments were kinda weak

LXXXVII - host comments were kinda weak

XC - host comments

XCIV - MVP

XCVI - MVP

XCVIII - host comments

C - MVP?, host comments

CIV - MVP, host comments

CXII - MVP, host comments?

CXIII - MVP went to MeaCulpa

Re: BriDynN: TWG's Community Initiative Project
 

Good idea for sure. As someone who has virtually no idea what TWG is, I can say that the ability to play in a game where I'm not expected to maintain the same level of insight as the regular players would make getting into TWG a lot more of an enjoyable thing if I were to choose to do so, rather than a daunting task. You could somewhat equate it to only offering D4+ tournaments on FFR, nobody new would ever join a tournament because they'd have nowhere to start.

While involvement may not be numbers everyone would hope to see (or warrant such an initiative), you really won't know just how many people are willing to get into TWG if you make it a little more attainable or inviting. I myself am one of those people that would probably be interested enough to check it out if there was a more new-player-friendly version of the game going.

Re: BriDynN: TWG's Community Initiative Project
 

thank you for the input, justin! sincerely appreciated.

Re: BriDynN: TWG's Community Initiative Project
 

Okay I'm going to work through these and edit the history thread to fill in the holes.

If people want to help, (especially with host comments) re-read one of the games that needs a re-done host comments section (menioned above), Write one up based on how you read the game and post it here along with the number of the TWG it's for. When I edit it into the history thread I will strikethrough it from the list above.

Re: BriDynN: TWG's Community Initiative Project
 

i fhosts of those games are still active, also you could always ask them for comment if its not too far gone meow.

Sorry for abandoning this thread, I'll be around to seriously duscuss thing in a couple of days.

Re: BriDynN: TWG's Community Initiative Project
 

also I pm'd you a little present manti :3

Re: BriDynN: TWG's Community Initiative Project
 

newest to oldest

CXII


CIV


XCVIII


XC

Re: BriDynN: TWG's Community Initiative Project
 

Got all of these updated.

We are also archived up through game 56.

Re: BriDynN: TWG's Community Initiative Project
 

Also holy Shenanagoats there's a lot of threads with messed up titles.

Archived through 72


Done Archiving!

Re: BriDynN: TWG's Community Initiative Project
 

hey so I still have a ton of time on my hands.

Manti, are we still hacking away at that list in post #62?

is there any other general project stuff we all should look at?

Re: BriDynN: TWG's Community Initiative Project
 

Yeah, I've stalled out a bit on that due to time restraints with work and etc..

Toss me a few comments and i''l gladly edit them in.

Re: BriDynN: TWG's Community Initiative Project
 

here we goooo



LXXXVII



LXXXIV



LXXVI



LXXV

Re: BriDynN: TWG's Community Initiative Project
 

holy shit the times have changed.

Re: BriDynN: TWG's Community Initiative Project
 

lmao

Re: BriDynN: TWG's Community Initiative Project
 

Clear! toss me a few more!

Re: BriDynN: TWG's Community Initiative Project
 

History To do's UPDATED

TWG X - Host Comments
TWG XII - Host Comments
TWG XVI - BlahBlah18 looks like he should get MVP
---------- Host comments
TWG XVII - Host Comments - MVP
----------- Remove this line "Redid the role reveal because young!Kilga has terrible taste in colors/names"
TWG XIX - MVP
TWG XXIII - MVP - Host Comments
XXIV - MVP
XXVI - MVP
XXVII - MVP
XXVIII - MVP
XXIX - MVP
XXXI - MVP
XXXII - MVP
XXXIII - MVP, host comments
XL - MVP
XLVI - MVP, host comments
XLVII - MVP, host comments were kinda weak
XLVIII - MVP
XLIX - MVP, host comments
LII - host comments
LIII - MVP
LIX - MVP
LXI - MVP
LXV - MVP
LXXI - host comments
LXXII - MVP
LXXIV - MVP
LXXXI - host comments were kinda weak
LXXXIII - MVP
C - host comments
XCIV - MVP, Host comments


If people want to help, (especially with host comments) re-read one of the games that needs a re-done host comments section (menioned above), Write one up based on how you read the game and post it here along with the number of the TWG it's for. When I edit it into the history thread I will strikethrough it from the list above.

Re: BriDynN: TWG's Community Initiative Project
 

Still have that to update above.

I'm planning on starting a host handbook thread soon, which will cover all the necessary things a host needs to do from the signup thread to the next signup thread.