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Post by Inferno Rodan on Sept 16, 2012 10:50:51 GMT -5
Okay, I've been aware for quite some time now that it's becoming increasingly difficult to find both your own as well as other peoples' monsters, and I'm looking into a way to fix that. At the old Arena site, every member had their own thread for their monsters. That is, of course, the simplest solution, but unfortunately that won't really work here because of the approval process.
I had the idea a few days ago to make a sub-board for each member within the Approved section. Unfortunately Proboards doesn't let you make sub-sub-boards, so that's impossible. So that would mean I would have to make the member sub-boards directly on the main Monsters section. That would be way too cluttered and ugly, not to mention confusing for any new members.
So my current idea is to make a handful for sub-boards for approved monsters, broken down into alphabetical groups by member name (ie: member names A-D, E-H, etc). I'd have to go through the member list and break it down so that each section has a more-or-less equal number of monsters, but I'd deal with that when the time comes.
Thoughts or other suggestions on the matter would be greatly appreciated.
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Post by GI Jho on Sept 16, 2012 14:04:19 GMT -5
Maybe you can organize the monster depending on appearence (ie 'saurian' or 'mammalian') or alignment (ie 'evil' or 'heroic')? Thing is, then everyone's monsters will be all split up, and might be hard to fidn your monsters still....
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Post by Deleted on Sept 16, 2012 14:41:38 GMT -5
alphabet sounds fine by me.
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Post by kingcaesar09 on Sept 16, 2012 16:07:36 GMT -5
To be honest, I'm iffy on all the ideas proposed. Especially the "type/allegiance" one, since someone who doesn't know what type/allegiance your monster is would have to browse through each category to find it. It is possible to sort the monsters in alphabetical order, member name, etc. if you click on the stuff above the threads. It's there for a reason. Though we could create a thread similar to the Free Kaiju one, the first post regrouping each link to a member's post in which their monsters' threads are linked/listed (we could actually post a link to our monsters in that Free Kaiju thread). Or people could just put the links in their siggies, though the character limit could be a problem. It's much less complicated than having to toy around with the categories. I don't have any trouble with the current setup.
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Post by Fainis the Sadistic Pansexual on Sept 16, 2012 17:35:32 GMT -5
Alphabetical sounds most logical, but just doesn't seem to... fit, if you get what I mean. The site is generally setup to look like the organization of the UCA as an actual place. Having an alphabetical list all of a sudden would seem weird. Maybe sections that are made to look like the arrangement of the actual living quarters? Sections like 'Humans' for manmade monsters, 'Terrestrial' for Earth monsters, 'Extraterrestrial' for alien monster... ya' know, kinda like zoos while divide their animals be continent sometimes. I dunno. KC's link idea is sounding pretty good. Perhaps the Approved Monster section could be headed by a 'Directory'- the monsters listed by worlds. Each member goes in and posts links to his guys as if they were directions to find living quarters. Something like... Monsters of Earth H-594:Arc - Space R11 Fenris - Space F-32 Ketos - Space K-29 Rustred - Space R11 etc. |
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Post by The Merry Lambfish on Sept 16, 2012 18:03:22 GMT -5
I agree with KC. We already have the Free/Available Kaiju thread in the hub, and although I realize some of you guys find it pointless, we could at least use it to post links to all our monsters. It would be far easier then browsing through The Approved Monsters section. Heck, we could even make a list of our kaiju and put links to their bios in our signature. I know lots of people have their kaiju listed in their signature, so why not add links to their bios?
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Post by The Great MM on Sept 16, 2012 18:56:25 GMT -5
I agree with KC. We already have the Free/Available Kaiju thread in the hub, and although I realize some of you guys find it pointless, we could at least use it to post links to all our monsters. It would be far easier then browsing through The Approved Monsters section. Heck, we could even make a list of our kaiju and put links to their bios in our signature. I know lots of people have their kaiju listed in their signature, so why not add links to their bios? Because signatures can only fit so many characters. I don't know about you, but I like keeping my win-loss record there. |
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Post by Blerhwave on Sept 18, 2012 16:54:04 GMT -5
i like(d) what we did at the other Arena. it was shovel approved 8===D
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