Forum feedback and ideas to improve.

Micky Dolenz

We haven't had a feedback thread in a long time so I thought it may be good to have one now.

What's good, what's bad?
What would you liked to see changed here etc?

I liked the tournament it brought life to the place. What else would do?

The floor is yours.

Ginja Ninja

An off topic thread maybe? a bit of life and chit chat can't do any harm,we might get some more traffic as well.


I might be able to crap out compose another scenario in a while[they were an awesome idea]

surviving other types of apocolypse? Or is that just for the Noc forum?

DakotaYoda

I would like to start a project for a group-contributed screenplay of sorts. Not sure what exactly, but I'm sure there would be some great ideas for a Z-related script.

Mahatma coat

OOOOOOOH the Ultimate Z movie Scripwhere we Plagarise Seek inspiration from all the movies that have gone before, We extract only the best bits of each and then film it on Shakey hand held cameras that we upload to Yourube, could Be EPIC

DakotaYoda

Mahatma coat wrote: »

OOOOOOOH the Ultimate Z movie Scripwhere we Plagarise Seek inspiration from all the movies that have gone before, We extract only the best bits of each and then film it on Shakey hand held cameras that we upload to Yourube, could Be EPIC

If you dig the idea check out lostzombies.com - that is what they are doing. They post ideas, etc that they want and people submit.

I was really thinking more just writing ideas. We could try having people shoot their own stuff. I'd be up for editing it. I has the tools n stuff and very much enjoy working with video.

Mahatma coat

Yeah the editing bit would scare the pants off me, It'd be cool to do a series of Zombiewalks around the world and film a theoretical 'trailer' for the ultimate Boards Zombie movie with the backdrops of famous international Landmarks, darling harbour springs to mind as a location here, all sot in a blair wirch style

Micky Dolenz

Some great ideas, that and the forum name change will see new life into the place.

DakotaYoda

Micky Dolenz wrote: »

Some great ideas, that and the forum name change will see new life into the place.

I've already given you my suggestion for the name change.

So - collaboration project for a screenplay/story-thing.

Any other ideas of things we could do on here?

Valmont

Considering I authored scenario numero uno, I should really do another one. I'll plan one in work tomorrow! General apocalyptic survival scenarios would seem to be part of the z learning curve so I would definitely like to see more of them.

Micky Dolenz

Good Idea Valmont, it would be great to have you around more

Zombienosh

Whats this about a rename?

EDIT: also i know there was a 100 great movies in other forums... but we should have a thread discussing zombie/creature movies? not 100 maybe half

DakotaYoda

Micky?

Kromdar

oh not the name change thing again :S

i mean its great to get all types in here, i'm not goin to get militant about it, but can we just agree now that we keep the sparkly, umm, "twilight people" out?

They dont deserve to be called people :pac:

Zombienosh

I dunno what you would change it to?

how about just the zombie forum?

Micky Dolenz

Some great ideas, there are a few movie threads floating around, maybe they should be merged.

Admin want more traffic and have suggested calling it the Twilight Forum as that seems to be trendy.

Mahatma coat

ah no Seriously <checks Date> No seriously, yer rippin the piss about the twilight thing, Right????????

Micky Dolenz

Mahatma coat wrote: »

ah no Seriously <checks Date> No seriously, yer rippin the piss about the twilight thing, Right????????

:pac:

Over my undead body, thats what I told em :P

DakotaYoda

Perfect - Twilight it is.


...and then I'll go blow my brains out. :pac::pac::pac:

cyberwolf77

Micky Dolenz wrote: »

Admin want more traffic and have suggested calling it the Twilight Forum as that seems to be trendy.

*Loads gun* Great they gonna send us practice dummies for Z-day then.

Micky Dolenz

It might be a good idea to have some non zombie related apocalypse topics. The tournament was a great craic and shows there is interest in other types of undead creatures.

Micky Dolenz

Should we have a movie mega thread? merge all movie threads into it?

cyberwolf77

Micky Dolenz wrote: »

Should we have a movie mega thread? merge all movie threads into it?

Sounds like a good plan to me.

DakotaYoda

Yeah I'd be up for that... or a movie vs movie competition? Not quite sure how you'd do it.


I started working on a list of all Z/Apocalypse-related stuff I wanted to see. Its not big or well filled out but its a start. Good way to keep track of what you want to see/buy.

Ginja Ninja

We could do it as a "movie of the week" type deal and everyone gives their opinion of the weeks film.

DakotaYoda

Not a bad idea at all!

Could possibly start online movie watching group too - someone could stream a movie via a service and peeps could login and watch/chat together.

Micky Dolenz

DakotaYoda wrote: »

Not a bad idea at all!

Could possibly start online movie watching group too - someone could stream a movie via a service and peeps could login and watch/chat together.

I like that. Wonder what the legality of it is though.

DakotaYoda

Welllllllllllll....

It depends on the movie - the original NOTLD is free to broadcast so thats no problem. There are others that are open to public use as well.

Others - it depends on the service you'd use and how nervous you get.:D

The one I'm looking at, Livestream, limits access to the channel you broadcast to 50 viewers until your "channel" is verified, whatever that means. I'm not sure if they lurk and watch to see what you are broadcasting or what.

Open to check out other services that are out there. Livestream was just one I had heard of before.

OptimashPrime

omg, i think this is the "ive died and gone to Zombie heaven" forum

cyberwolf77

OptimashPrime wrote: »

omg, i think this is the "ive died and gone to Zombie heaven" forum

Yes, this is a nice place.

OptimashPrime

cyberwolf77 wrote: »

Yes, this is a nice place.

sure is

Micky Dolenz

OptimashPrime wrote: »

omg, i think this is the "ive died and gone to Zombie heaven" forum

So any suggestions?


Going lock this up at the weekend and we'll implement some changes.

OptimashPrime

Micky Dolenz wrote: »

So any suggestions?


Going lock this up at the weekend and we'll implement some changes.

hiya !

well there are some great threads already. i wouldn't call it twilight personally then thats just me. im new so im not really familiar with everything just yet but im gonna get reading. what kind of changes were you thinking of ? was it regarding the name of the forum or just ideas for new threads ?

Micky Dolenz

The name changed was me joking :P

Have a look around around and get back to us.

OptimashPrime

some ideas for new forum names from me would be

Deadworld

The Horror Factory (my favorite)

The undead Diaries

The Howlers

Bed knobs broomsticks and all things occult



thats just a few

OptimashPrime

Micky Dolenz wrote: »

The name changed was me joking :P

Have a look around around and get back to us.

woops, didnt guess that one lol

ill just have to start threads in those names so

DakotaYoda

I'd vote for trying to figure out a Zombie-related forum RPG game. Not quite sure how I'd run it but it would be fun to try.

Really I think I'd see it more as cooperative story telling and rely more on the story than on the metrics of what game system we'd use. I suppose we'd have to figure out something for combat, etc.

Otherwise - storyline, etc is no problemo.

Anyone with experience in running play by post games?

Mahatma coat

actually, just in case someone in authority does suddenly decide to change the mane of the Forum I suggest

S urvivalist
H ow
T o
F orum

or SHTF for Short;):D:D

SmileyPaul

the undead forum

something as simple as that, I don't really wanna see too many changes but I liked the idea of allowing us to investigate into other such beings

Kromdar

what about an general 'spooky stuff forum' [incl those sparkly gits :<] and then a subforum for apocalypse survival tips? so all manner of magical or evil stuff can be discussed at a safe distance from the die-hard-survival-verging-on cold-war-gun-hoarding-kill-anything-that-moves people?

Micky Dolenz

Would more people be in favour of a name change?

It would bring more traffic and a wider arena for discussion.

Maybe we need a poll.

ShadowGal

Micky Dolenz wrote: »

Would more people be in favour of a name change?

It would bring more traffic and a wider arena for discussion.

Maybe we need a poll.

i know im new :-) but i think changing it to include a wider variety of undead, creepy and occult type things would definitely open it up to a wider audience

cyberwolf77

I like the undead forum as a name.

Micky Dolenz

Ok, time for change.

We will be cutting the number of stickies and rewriting the charter. If you want to have a say, now is the time

DakotaYoda

Micky Dolenz wrote: »

Ok, time for change.

We will be cutting the number of stickies and rewriting the charter. If you want to have a say, now is the time

The Twilight Forum it shall be... :p:p

Yeeps. Time for a revamp ladies and gents.

CYOA has been a nice add and will be back in full force soon. We do need to add some newer things however. Suggestions?

Cutting stickies is good - but shall we add Movie and Book lists as stickies? Wish we had some more granular control here to we could organize things a bit better. Hate too many stickies at the top gettin' in the way of things.

Micky Dolenz

Not sure if you saw the mod memo Dakota but the tech guys want a max of 3 stickies in forums. Anymore screw up the new touch boards function.

I think charter should be simple. For example:

There are two types of people come Z Day, food and survivors. We welcome survivors, food gets banned.

The end.

ChaseThisLight

DakotaYoda wrote: »

The Twilight Forum it shall be... :p:p

Good god, I'd let the zombies have me if that happened.

Cutting stickies is good - but shall we add Movie and Book lists as stickies? Wish we had some more granular control here to we could organize things a bit better. Hate too many stickies at the top gettin' in the way of things.

I agree about too many stickies...but certain things should be stickied simply because there are people who don't bother to search the forum to see if there's already a thread on something...for example, how many weapon threads are there? If there was one stickied, that would solve that problem. Or the films thread...there's a couple of those floating about.

EDIT: Just saw what Micky said about the max of stickies...so I suggest maybe more merging of threads that already have a topic, like they do in other forums here.

DakotaYoda

Micky Dolenz wrote: »

Not sure if you saw the mod memo Dakota but the tech guys want a max of 3 stickies in forums. Anymore screw up the new touch boards function.

I think charter should be simple. For example:

There are two types of people come Z Day, food and survivors. We welcome survivors, food gets banned.

The end.

Yarg... no. Had not seen that. 1 sticky eaten up, pun intended, w/ our Charter so we'll just have 2 others. No problem. We'll work with it.

Agreed - we need a nice, simple mission statement.

DakotaYoda

ChaseThisLight wrote: »

...so I suggest maybe more merging of threads that already have a topic, like they do in other forums here.

Eeeeeew.... are you insinuating we need actual modding in this forum? :D:p

ChaseThisLight

DakotaYoda wrote: »

Eeeeeew.... are you insinuating we need actual modding in this forum? :D:p

And here I was trying to be all subtle about it.