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"NEW SITE FEATURES COMP - WINNER ANNOUNCEMENT"

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)

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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!

Shocktrooper wrote:
> I'm glad you agree.

Cheers MWA. But i'll have to tell you that
> monkeys invaded my house last night - and I killed them all.


I shall shoot you with my Big Mac.

Dringo wrote:
> www.conkula.homestead.com/cwf

it is a hugely popular CWF game by
> me based around but i'm aware of the complications the game creates
> with undoubtably so many members!

So in other words make a game,
> it could be an RPG and we could overthrow forums, Battle against
> computer controlled staff, low levels easy to beat higher not so
> easy, gain points rise higher levels, over throw forums,
> www.glitchless has a similar game that is excellent and hugley
> popular, Ukgames has discussions a shop but don't have
> games!

Even better have the option to battle over SR in internet
> gaming!

What we create our own games or SR?

:-)

Why don't we just leave it as it is?

In response to another idea about new types of member, now about having types based on certain games.

People could choose on their profile, what game they want to respresent, and then be given a status appropiate to that game - the standard status could be put next to it.

For example "Tony Hawk" could be equivalent to a Notable. This might make people more interested in the Status system

Wishing you as much pain as possible,

Lord of Monkeys

Aha! I have another idea.

It's a good idea to have stats and being rated as something.
Newbie, Regular and Notable etc...

But people will get bored with these names. Especially if they don't get voted as the new notable.

So, anyone played Perfect Dark? I'm sure most of you have.
And it's common knowledge about the fantastic rating system.
Start off as Begginer etc, all the way to Perfect.

So, my idea is to have more. Now you can evolve from Regular into, say, I dunno, 'Respectable'. Maybe, up to 5 more of these can be made?

But there's a problem with this. What will be the limit? What do you have to do to become a 'Respectable'?

If this new system was to take place, what will hapen to the Notables?

I'll leave the SR team to work that one out.

Meanwhile, all of you can get inventing some new names.

Here's mine: 1)Newbie, 2)Regular, 3)Respectable, 4)Veteran, 5)Editor.

Well, they're just some examples, you lot can decide upon more.

Whoever thinks up the best can, err, get a pat on the back. Unless Tony rewards you somehow!

Thanks for reading - Shocky.

I'm glad you agree.

Cheers MWA. But i'll have to tell you that monkeys invaded my house last night - and I killed them all.

Yeah, people will be writing on the same title which they can evolve their ideas around.

Sets a guideline.

That way, time won't be wasted trying to think up a story1

I like the idea of Tony etc picking a title.

Ahem, corrections for my last post about the Short Story idea.

At the beginnig, I said: "Once the title for that days story has been posted..."

I meant: 'Once the title for that WEEKS story has been posted...'

Sorry, mistake by butter fingers.