Post by Shadowcat on Oct 21, 2009 21:39:26 GMT -6
IMPORTANT! Please disregard most of this thread now. The only part that is still important is the part about the new features and the part about needing staff.
UPDATE!!!
One big question I need answered; when should we re-open?
Okay. So... I miss this place... despite the inactivity, there have been a few people telling me how much they love this place and don't want it to die, and also a few guests who really thought this place looked great. SO. How about a re-opening?
BUT I require one thing. Staff. I mostly ran this place by myself. Only part of the staff were active. It is just too hard to run a place by myself. What I really want are staff who will not only moderator and watch for rule breakers, but those who will advertise and link back. But, to do this, you must be able to follow instructions. There is a very specific way I had the advertisements set up to hopefully avoid advertising in the same place twice. Advertising is what keeps a site a alive, and I am looking for people who can advertise a MINIMUM of 1 ad a day, or 7 per week (can be on the same day.) Even if you can't do this, it'd still be nice to have some staff. Plus... I wasn't gonna say this 'cause this was going to be part of the failed re-opening, but I was thinking of maybe doing some random in character events, such as on pokemon sites where mods rp wild pokemon for members to catch. I think it'd make the site a lot more unique.
I have a ton of ideas for the site I never spoke of before, but I think they are good ideas. I'd love to have even more ideas to make this site unique, so if you have any, please let me know. Currently, these are the ideas I had:
1. Random events that are modded (not sure what yet. I had several ideas, way too many to post here)
2. More shop items (no idea what)
3. More in character events (such as celebrations of holidays and such)
4. Holidays (I did a contest with this before but there weren't many entries. I think maybe staff should come up with a few and then maybe in the future would could do contests for me.
5. POSSIBLY allow "god" characters. Unlike a guardian, these could have odd colors, markings, and powers, but they were not be found on the lands of Amanji. To prevent abuse, and to make it more fun, these would be extremely hard to earn the right to play as. One would have to collect "badges" earned in many ways, some of which are hard, some are secret.
6. This was my biggest, most secret one. As a reward for being a member here and to encourage people to be active, a customizable "doll." For a small fee, people could have a graphic made. They would be made using pre-made items, but would be customizable, because you could choose which item. For example, you could choose a fox for your base animal, choose it's base color, then add on a flowered tee shirt, a big bow around the tail, sunglasses, leopard spots, a pet dragon, a sunset background, hearts floating around the fox, and a floating book of magic spells for it to read. These could have fantasy aspects to the looks, maybe one item makes the tail look like flames, and could be just about anything. Each item would be unlocked. Some bought in the shop, some earned through making a certain number of posts, some through have a certain number of characters in a certain clan, and even rarer ones from posting in specific thread (event threads only) and the rarest of all making a character of a certain species. I have a HUGE list of possible ways they could be earned, but I'd still like to keep that a secret, in case this feature comes through. I'd like it to be a surprise how you get the items. For this to work, however, we need one or more people that can draw the items and animals either by hand or on the computer and put them together. If it's on the computer, make the items layers. If by hand, make the items all on a separate paper and trace them onto the first paper. I did the tracing before with dragons and it seemed to work pretty well. I could do this with the art but mine wouldn't be as good as other people could make it. Still, I can do it. If any people want to help with this, they need to show some samples of their art skills and, most importantly, be extremely active. I will also require them to sent me a picture of each individual item so I can save it, just in case they have something that keeps them from getting on for a long period of time.
7. Oh, here's something else I forgot to add to the list of my ideas: stats. Each animal gets so many stats points to start with. The owner of the character can add the points to whichever stat they choose. More points can be gained through buying them in the shop, contests, or in character events. Points can be used for contests and possibly in character events. I saw another site do something like this with points and it looked interesting. Not to mention a ton of other people thought it looked interesting as well because it's different.
I had some more, smaller ideas, but I don't remember them too well.
Anyways, what do ya'll say?
Guests can posts their thoughts here as well. Also, I don't normally do this, but since I need staff, I am willing to let brand new members be an apprentice mod. Normally I'd want to see how they act first and all but there are not a lot of powers that go with apprentice mod so it's safe enough.
UPDATE!!!
One big question I need answered; when should we re-open?
Okay. So... I miss this place... despite the inactivity, there have been a few people telling me how much they love this place and don't want it to die, and also a few guests who really thought this place looked great. SO. How about a re-opening?
BUT I require one thing. Staff. I mostly ran this place by myself. Only part of the staff were active. It is just too hard to run a place by myself. What I really want are staff who will not only moderator and watch for rule breakers, but those who will advertise and link back. But, to do this, you must be able to follow instructions. There is a very specific way I had the advertisements set up to hopefully avoid advertising in the same place twice. Advertising is what keeps a site a alive, and I am looking for people who can advertise a MINIMUM of 1 ad a day, or 7 per week (can be on the same day.) Even if you can't do this, it'd still be nice to have some staff. Plus... I wasn't gonna say this 'cause this was going to be part of the failed re-opening, but I was thinking of maybe doing some random in character events, such as on pokemon sites where mods rp wild pokemon for members to catch. I think it'd make the site a lot more unique.
I have a ton of ideas for the site I never spoke of before, but I think they are good ideas. I'd love to have even more ideas to make this site unique, so if you have any, please let me know. Currently, these are the ideas I had:
1. Random events that are modded (not sure what yet. I had several ideas, way too many to post here)
2. More shop items (no idea what)
3. More in character events (such as celebrations of holidays and such)
4. Holidays (I did a contest with this before but there weren't many entries. I think maybe staff should come up with a few and then maybe in the future would could do contests for me.
5. POSSIBLY allow "god" characters. Unlike a guardian, these could have odd colors, markings, and powers, but they were not be found on the lands of Amanji. To prevent abuse, and to make it more fun, these would be extremely hard to earn the right to play as. One would have to collect "badges" earned in many ways, some of which are hard, some are secret.
6. This was my biggest, most secret one. As a reward for being a member here and to encourage people to be active, a customizable "doll." For a small fee, people could have a graphic made. They would be made using pre-made items, but would be customizable, because you could choose which item. For example, you could choose a fox for your base animal, choose it's base color, then add on a flowered tee shirt, a big bow around the tail, sunglasses, leopard spots, a pet dragon, a sunset background, hearts floating around the fox, and a floating book of magic spells for it to read. These could have fantasy aspects to the looks, maybe one item makes the tail look like flames, and could be just about anything. Each item would be unlocked. Some bought in the shop, some earned through making a certain number of posts, some through have a certain number of characters in a certain clan, and even rarer ones from posting in specific thread (event threads only) and the rarest of all making a character of a certain species. I have a HUGE list of possible ways they could be earned, but I'd still like to keep that a secret, in case this feature comes through. I'd like it to be a surprise how you get the items. For this to work, however, we need one or more people that can draw the items and animals either by hand or on the computer and put them together. If it's on the computer, make the items layers. If by hand, make the items all on a separate paper and trace them onto the first paper. I did the tracing before with dragons and it seemed to work pretty well. I could do this with the art but mine wouldn't be as good as other people could make it. Still, I can do it. If any people want to help with this, they need to show some samples of their art skills and, most importantly, be extremely active. I will also require them to sent me a picture of each individual item so I can save it, just in case they have something that keeps them from getting on for a long period of time.
7. Oh, here's something else I forgot to add to the list of my ideas: stats. Each animal gets so many stats points to start with. The owner of the character can add the points to whichever stat they choose. More points can be gained through buying them in the shop, contests, or in character events. Points can be used for contests and possibly in character events. I saw another site do something like this with points and it looked interesting. Not to mention a ton of other people thought it looked interesting as well because it's different.
I had some more, smaller ideas, but I don't remember them too well.
Anyways, what do ya'll say?
Guests can posts their thoughts here as well. Also, I don't normally do this, but since I need staff, I am willing to let brand new members be an apprentice mod. Normally I'd want to see how they act first and all but there are not a lot of powers that go with apprentice mod so it's safe enough.