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Thu 07/06/01 at 17:01
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HERE ARE THE RESULTS OF THIS COMPETITION. I have read ALL the entries!

A lot of entries mentioned things which have generally been discussed before or are in the pipeline. They include:
User Profiles
Polls
Walkthroughs and Game Guides
Highest Scores
Who is currently posting
Splash Plastic (which is too expensive for us to do)
Online Reddies
Logos and Ringtones (see UKphonetones.com)
Genre search for games
Tell a Friend.

It just goes to show how busy we are that we are unable to get many of the above into place. But hey, expenditure is controlled by income (hint).

I liked Darkness' idea about tutorials, and Mantis made the suggestion to have a "Gamesmaster" of the forums based on competitions for high scores.

Cookie Monster wants people to be able to promote their website (we already offer this for Freeola customers) and he also suggests that we have an office pet which is monitored with a web cam (brilliant).

Monkey_with_Attitude suggests a "most played games of the week" counter on UKgames.com.

Freak of the Dark says our logo should "move or something".

Turbonutter reckons we should run Flash games and this is supported by Shaneo who says we should run SR Arena and give prizes to the best players. Turbonutter also tells us that we are lacking on PC game specification of the type you find on the back of the box and Swish extends this to a link under each title.

CDouch is a "man of a thousand ideas", mostly on the button too. He lists: Information on gaming from around the world, more mini sites like UKgt3, kids corner, celebrity visits and better organised release info including more information on unreleased games (to name but a few of his suggestions).

The rules (written by Kendozod) state "exciting and would attract a lot of visitors".

THE WINNERS ARE:
CDouch for MORE INFORMATION ON UNRELEASED GAMES.
Turbonutter for FLASH GAMES.


Many thanks for all of your participation and, for the time being, I promise not to confuse the issue by holding any other similar competition.

All the obove written by Tony (The Judge)

************

Below are the original rules written by Kendozod

New Site Features.

Tony has let me loose to post a new and exciting competition!
So here goes:

This competition is for all of you to think up new features for our websites. We already have cheats, clips, demos, discussions etc but are there other features you would like us to add?

The aim here is for the feature to be low admin maintenance and low in cost (obviously!) but be exciting and would attract lots of visitors.

They can be fun, educational, business, reference, silly, cool - anything as long as they NOT sexual or violent in nature.

This competition is open for 1 month and the best ideas that we USE will win a game as part of GAMEADAY. If no ideas are used then I will pick 1 winner that I deem the best.

CLOSING DATE: 8th July 2001

So get thinking and posting. Remember, your suggestions could make a difference!
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Sun 08/07/01 at 10:06
Regular
"Vote For Pedro"
Posts: 5,679
sell computer game merchendise.
this is become increasingly popular
there something for almost every game now:

metal gear solid
mario
tomb raider
pokemon
final fantasy
resident evil
etc

and a lot of these things are not available in the uk.
so you could import them and then people will come to you to get them.
Sun 08/07/01 at 10:03
Regular
"Vote For Pedro"
Posts: 5,679
a simpsons forum.
i have noticed a few messages coming up now about the simposons and the simpsons games.
Sun 08/07/01 at 10:01
Regular
"Vote For Pedro"
Posts: 5,679
let people come an work on work exsperience with you
Sun 08/07/01 at 10:01
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"Vote For Pedro"
Posts: 5,679
FrEaK Of ThE (mr) DaRk wrote:
> These are my ideas. (not in any order)

1. dull down FOG a bit,
> make it back into a discussion

2. Create a advertise your web
> site thing, every day (on fog) a small link above the forum list is
> a link to a fog memebers site. (changes every day or week)

3.
> Have a win a domain a day or (something were you win a domain name,
> could retrict to .co.uk or .co.org only)

4. put something in the
> background, eventhough white makes it simple and easy to read, it
> makes it a tad boring as well.

5. If this isn't so already, let
> HTML be added into a post, so links could be created, or a picture
> shown

6. With the profiles of members, have a see photo option,
> so if people wanted they could have a pic them shown, or a pic of
> something else, like there website banner etc.

(7 and 8 will help
> the forum server)

7. Delete users after 90 days non-usage

8.
> Delete pages after 90 days of non-usage (also delete a few pages
> from the longest record... to help it out as well (i.e. don't let a
> fourm have more that 10 pages in it)

9. Have a site map page
> (e.g. UKgames - Nintendo - N64 (these all linked to the relivent
> places)

10. Buy fututreofgaming.com (or something like that) and
> redirect it to the FOG forum, so it is easyier to get to here

11.
> Add a whos on FOG part so we can see who is on at that time

12.
> Search should find peoples stats as well

13. E-mails should be in
> stats if they want them up there

14. Also websites in the stats
> area

15. Put fog.com (e.g.) into search engines as well to get
> more users

16. make the lost/ not claimed gameadays go up in
> another competition or something (this is proberly one!)

17. let
> fog memebers get a redirect address like
> http://fog-fan-site.fog.com/ (for this you would need to buy
> fog.com)

18. give speical deals to regualers and better ones to
> notalbes

19. Sell CD's

20. sell cd books

21. have a hit
> counter in a forum, so people know how many people have been to
> there forum (must be a i.p log on so you can count inderviual
> users)

22. try to make fog a bit more personal by letting people
> change colours of the forums, to have a 'welcome whoever' at the top
> of the page

23. change looks of different pages, so ukgames looks
> different to ukpc

24. give away fonts

25. sell logos and
> ringtones

26. create your own spiecal reserve internet
> exploere

27. have reserve e-mail (e.g.
> [email protected])

28. improve on the sr logo,
> make it move or something

29. next to someones name habe a 'talk
> privte' link next to it, so if you want a 1 2 1 chat with them you
> can

30. have smily faces when :) is typed (like msn and yahoo
> messanger)

31. Have a sr memebers top 50 site list

32. (if
> this isn't already) isn't of chossing a game, you can have a gameboy
> color in game a day

33. make a limt of game a day (e.g. no more
> than £60, no less than £5)

34. make a sr shop near
> St. Neots in cambridgeshire

35. have a sr desktop theme/
> background

36. create a sr jingel (like ones used on radio
> shows)

and thats it


a lot of these have been suggested already
Sun 08/07/01 at 09:59
Regular
"Vote For Pedro"
Posts: 5,679
win a matt hoffmans bmx
win a tony hawlks skateboard
competitions and 5winners up gets copy of one of the games.

anther comp idea
win an arcade machine
i was thinking TEKKEN 4
Sun 08/07/01 at 09:56
Regular
"Vote For Pedro"
Posts: 5,679
Monkey_With_Attitude wrote:
> A page dedicated to the younger generation of children and
> software/hardware for them, educational and games.

You could put
> a more childish look to this page of SR.


i suggested this before - i called it kids corner
Sun 08/07/01 at 09:23
Regular
"qwertyuiop!!"
Posts: 2,517
Isn't there already one!
Sun 08/07/01 at 02:28
"Uzi Lover"
Posts: 7,403
Why not have a forum dedicated to suggesting future ideas like this thread for SR.
Sun 08/07/01 at 02:24
"Uzi Lover"
Posts: 7,403
A hotshots page full of upcoming products that are going to be hot in the world of gaming/film etc.
Sun 08/07/01 at 02:22
"Uzi Lover"
Posts: 7,403
How about showing the age of the discusser under his/her Username in the posts naer the taglines.
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