AA.com - 2 years ?!?!?!
 

I'm posting here so everyone will see. Some don't visit all areas of the forum, and I would kinda like to see what everyone thinks.

Newt made a post about MoH and how he missed the old times in the History area, and that started me thinking here. And for those who do not know me...you are about to discover why some love me, but some hate me. lol.

For those who have not guessed, or cared, I am Zen. But due to an overwelming amount of privacy invasion, I would prefere to let the name die. You would not believe the number of PMs, Instant messages, and E-mails I used to get.

Anyway,

Look around guys, and look good. Expecially the 69ers & guys who have been here for more than 2 years. We are at a point of freedom and union not experianced since prior to the revolt.
I missed this on my last absence: [url=http://www.groundforce1.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=1006053:f5add]Badscript moves on[/url:f5add]
I would say that, not only due to this mind you, that 98% of us are here simply because we want to visit with each other. Simo is here. Anti is here. Inny & Ferich are mods! VC is gone.

With US being both togather and on better terms, perhaps we should persue our new freedom and make some rule changes, alter the forums, get the damned money useful, ect.
I'm not saying things are bad, or we need more mods, or any of that crap. Things are as awsome as I remember when I first joined...and I think thats spectacular.

Just thought I'd get some opinions & input.

To be truthful, I don't mind the state of the forums at the current time. Modding has been pretty good all around lately (Thanks Zone and Tony). Items would be cool to have, and maybe even usergroups; bring in a VC influence. Opening up new forums wouldn't be a bad idea. Get rid of all the unused ones and focus on more general subjects: Music forum, Media forum, etc. That's my input.

rock: beer:

praise anti hero and strik0r

that is all.

You forgot to mention Himmler!

[quote="dr nein":28fe2]praise anti hero and strik0r[/quote:28fe2]
happy: , Yes the doctor is in as well.

Jin, Himmler, as far as I know has not been previously banned.

Zoner has...or should have... full control over the site and forums. And so long as the forums are not buried in the old PhP stuff, further scripting and additions should be simple.
Usergroups would work either way, and a killer suggestion Anti. + frikin' 1.
To make the shop mod more useable, we would only need to do the scripting. Simo and some of the other guys know how to do that. I do too if no one else wants to mess with it. Once we get that, we can make and use items.

I like the gaming sections, but I think we should merge them, like GG. Lots of us don't play anymore, but I'm sure there are enough guys here that do to warrent it remaining.

I also don't see the need to further push the profanity rules... at least when not used in overload.

all systems go!...

I know one change that should be made but it won't happen unfortunatly.

The forums are good imo.

No. for the love of all that is holy you will never be a mod

I can too, they both involve you but I have a feeling our ideas differ.

[quote="dr nein":5e426]I can too, they both involve you but I have a feeling our ideas differ.[/quote:5e426]

Im glad you think i should be an admin.

Pipe down Comatose.

Zen, i think its a great idea, get rid of unnecesary forums, and broaden the Lounge area.

Perhaps add a Music section, and move TechSupport to the Lounge area?

After thinking about it for 30 seconds, I ahppen to agree. Whether we like it or not, most of the people posting here are either posting in Offtopic, Art/Sig or History. The site has really moved away from gaming, and more into a general place where everyone likes to hang out because we all know each other pretty well since a lot of us have been here for quite a while. Perhaps that should be embraced.

Yeah, i concur in ridding some of the dead wood. I also believe the mods are doing a good job (....and NO, not because i'm one of them). Suggestions are always a good idea.....keep 'em coming.

If your forum isn't being spammed by pictures of trees or bestiality and people aren't PSing your face into Hitler pictures you're probably doing a decent job as a moderator.

Good system of measurement, in my opinion.

I forget that alot of the guys here never got involved for long periods of time at VC, and with the level of 13-14 year olds at the site I can understand, lol.

Here is a generalized breakdown of how a few of the mentioned systems worked:

UserGroups
Usergroups are already built into the forum, not further coding would be needed to make them work. Thank you phpbb.

A UserGroup is defined as a set of members with special permissions. That can range from being able to mod a single area of the forum, to access to restricted forums, and allowing new members into a usergroup.
At VC, usergroups could be created by anyone with enought starting members to warrent them. The group would be given thier own private area to post about group tactics ect.

Their purpose at VC was to engage in battles, wars, ect. for respect and prosperity. However usergroups could be used for anything. It was once described to me as a tiny clan, with no gaming invloved.

It is a very cool way to add some activity to the site, and can be managed with limited support needed.

Shop & Items
We already have a shop and money system in place, and changing it over to one like the system used at VC would be very simple I think.

The Shop at VC contained "icons" that could be purchased and were displayed in your "miniprofile". That is the space below your Avatar & location. It would display 5 and have your other items on a "property page... an extension of your Profile, linked from your mini-profile.

Here are a few examples:
[img]http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y111/TiberiusAD/sigsavas/Others/CatDog.gif[/img]
[img]http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y111/TiberiusAD/sigsavas/Others/GuildCell20Matrix.gif[/img]

Now, you must pay for these items, and VC had thousands. Some were Usergroup specific...meaning only availible to a certain user-group. You could also make a small fortune making the icons...they would have to be approved for use (meaning they better be frikin' good) of course.

Just another way to add activity and enjoyment to the forums.

To make both of these "Enhancements" happen, we would only need some minor coding, and a few dedicated and knowledgable guys to run the extra systems.

Yeah in order to do that though is to have Badscript hand over everything to Zoner. With Zoner's current status as admin, he is limited to certain things.

Surely an ad blocker for the month of november 2004 is enough for everyone.

For shame, you greedy jerks. annoy:

Thanks for the input, T.

Here's the scoop:

- I don't have any access to the store mod. None. I'd love to make that useful and fun, but unfortunately I can't.

- Usergroups: I'll look into that. May be something I can set up.

- Unused forums: I can definitely smoke forums, but whether BS would appreciate that is another story. Seeing as though he's not around, he probably wouldn't mind.

I have to say that the foums have been really cool lately. Of course our group is still a little rough around the edges, but that's what makes this place fun.

I may not say it a lot, but I do appreciate the effort you guys make in trying to keep the forums interesting, while at the same time keeping within our set of rules.

Cheers motherfuckers.
beer:

The impression I get from this is he has washed his hands of the site, and moved on to better things... and good for him, no harm done.
I don't think he would have any problem with providing you the needed FTP access and file access needed to make changes.

Perhaps an E-Mail to see?

If you need help with the Usergroup stuff, shoot me an PM. I set up a similar system for some old clan mates a few months back.

im just glad BS didnt smoke the staff ftp space. biggrin:

I would be careful about making big changes - I mean, if it ain't broke don't fix it. We're going pretty casually cool at the moment and you wouldn't want anything to screw that up....

Understandable, and don't let me come off as I'm trying to suggest anything that would piss anyone off, or suggest a domain change , or something like that.

I just think that some additions would be cool. Sort-of a merge of VC & AA. The best parts of both sites, with all the guys here.

ech, ive signed up at VC, posted maybe twice, and never bothered to go there again...something about AA/GF1 always was to my liking.

Ive tried joining other forums, but theres something about AA.com that keeps me coming back for more. Perhaps all the deliciously sexy men...I really dont know. I like some of the suggestions made, especially getting rid of some boards which are not used. Maybe bringing in some more popular games instead of just Military Shooters as well.

I think Angel Chen is dead. I sent a letter to him and I got no reply! loney:

That was kind of what the new system was like, but the old system was a lot better (I think). The old system was mainly the usergroups competing by making things for the shop and using the money from those things for influence and gaining more money. While the new system (as I intended it) was essentially mini-clan wars competing for members, it didn't work quite like that though.

The main problem is that you'd get a few very dedicated members (like yourself and wilko) that actually did want to play along and worked to make their groups better, and then you'd get people joining those group that didn't really want to play along, but just wanted to be apart of the group for status on the forums.

The another problem is one group would become too big or too popular or too influential and the other groups couldn't really compete at all.

But it would be interesting to see how this would work on a more "mature" forum.

Maybe usergroups like these:

-Admin
-Moderator
-Forum Vet
-Forum Noobie

?

unoriginal

I'm all for these 'changes'.

I definately agree with a move from military gaming to a more 'offtopic' forum. Yeah keep some of the active forums but minimise them to just a general gaming section with a few specific forums. Having new forums such as music etc would be cool too.

The shop definately needs looking into, getting site root access would grant certain trusted members access to modify the shop.

Trip - making a backup of the database and files would stop things from getting 'fucked up' like you mentioned, maybe we would lose a few hours should something mess up but its worth a try.

You guys need examples. Here are a few:

.the 92 Bangels (Trip & Ferich). The idea behind this group, as I took it was an free expression group of guys that enjoyed a certain amount of poetic speaking via images.

.the Assassins Guild (Bain & Inny). This group worked on and developed espionage, extrodiany graphics, and a sence of covertness.

.Several WWII relates groups, that mostly, as I took it persued both historical icons, and a more "clanish" appearance.

Basically the groups can be anything, and evolve in any manner. I made one and built custom sigs, custom avas, and some promotional graphics. Most did...and I think it became a requirment at the end there.

Don't be narrow minded, there are seriously millions of different ways to run, build, and enjoy a usergroup.

I wanna be in RObs group!!1!21 FREE AVAS AND SIGS DUDED!S!

these are the gf1 groups

69ers
I like bands no ones heard of.
photochoppa's
Annoying 14-16 yr olds
Ebaums
Chavs
Fuck America, _______ R00lz!
Self-Felatio

none of it sounds all that awesome to me and honestly i probably wouldnt even use it ... i rarely reply to threads in ot lately, sometimes check out the sig forum , but thats about it. the threads are for the most part boring and most of the people i like to fuck around with no longer post.

ROFLes. rock:

And its true. The User-groups at VC were extentions of the guys who posted there. I'm sure it would not be different here.
You can make whatever requirments you may want for your group. The Guild had a requirment for you to infiltrate another group before you could join, as an example.

For those who spend the time working with them, they can be alot of fun. For those who could care less, it doesn't matter. VC had an extra section of the forum specifically for UserGroups. This kept spam and "recruiting" out of the other areas.

allow swearing in the intro forum, it's so boring and nice now.

Id actually be up for more of a divison of topics ie music, movies, tech etc...

For instance having a history and political forum here is a godsend...politics(and my hatred towards it in general) led to my downfall at another site.

92 bengals will live again

how about

retards
nerds
posers
cool interweb people
and the
fuck u all, u all suck

I call the oOo: group.