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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)
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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!
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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The Game, Go back to the original page, I had already done all that.
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Dan2K1 wrote:
Send in the photo to SR - the winner wins a game.
Dan2k1 the whole of the that post has already been suggested!
Send in the photo to SR - the winner wins a game.
Dan2k1 the whole of the that post has already been suggested!
I have common sense. What? I do. No, really I do. Stop looking at me like that. Stop it. No, they're talking to me again. No, get out of my head. No. Nooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!
Mantis should have wrote:
"Game, I didn't realise your post was so long...
Yes, the idea is a winner and i think should be implemented!"
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Why thank you Mantis, I was quite pleased with my suggestion, it's good to finally meet someone who has some common sense!
^_^
Game
"Game, I didn't realise your post was so long...
Yes, the idea is a winner and i think should be implemented!"
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Why thank you Mantis, I was quite pleased with my suggestion, it's good to finally meet someone who has some common sense!
^_^
Game
I think Monkey-with-attitude allready sugested this the game, but i really like the sound of it.
We could all see pictures of one another and find out about all the other FOG members.
It would make this site have the most closly knit and friendy disscussion boards. It would be very cool!
We could all see pictures of one another and find out about all the other FOG members.
It would make this site have the most closly knit and friendy disscussion boards. It would be very cool!
Rakuga wrote:
> -SR office
I'm sure some people might be interested in whats going
> on around the Special Reserve offices. It would be like a soap opera
> and would tell the office going ons of the week. It would be as
> popular as Eastenders! Well maybe not Eastenders..
To back up this idea, you could have a webcam image that is updated every few minutes. Many people that are viewing it can save the image and you guys could have fun in there!
> -SR office
I'm sure some people might be interested in whats going
> on around the Special Reserve offices. It would be like a soap opera
> and would tell the office going ons of the week. It would be as
> popular as Eastenders! Well maybe not Eastenders..
To back up this idea, you could have a webcam image that is updated every few minutes. Many people that are viewing it can save the image and you guys could have fun in there!
I didn't realise your post was so long untill I had allready sent it. Yes, the idea is a winner and i think should be considered.
The site adderess could be ukchallanges.co.uk.
It works!
The site adderess could be ukchallanges.co.uk.
It works!
My impulse idea was this. We (the members) could have a little piece of SR webspace to write something about ourselves. The chances are it would be very funny and make the forums seem, as they are, to be a great friendly gaming community.
I think you should maybe give us our own free webspace to fill in our details... this way new people could look at peoples:
Hobbies
Favourite Company
Tagline
Favourite Quote
Most respected FOG-er
Gameaday Wins (Maybe - Could cause bitterness)
e-Contacts (i.e MSN Messenger/ICQ/AOL Messenger/other)
Homepage (Self hosted website - ie. FREEOLA / Geocites)
And their FOG friends...(i.e SHEEPY, Time Warp, Ant and Goatboy) [These could be links to their information!]
These are just some of the things we could all fill in for ourselves... more 'inter@ction' is always a good thing and it's what makes SR so cool! Newbies and JAT's could find someone they thing they'll get along with and viola, the SR community grows! They could even search for people who are on-line @ 6:00 pm, who like Nintendo and are friends with Ant!
Do you have ukfindafriend.com?!
My second idea is that we could have a people news page... I know we have the News Monkey and what a primeate he is, but he can't know everything and i've spoken to lots of people like... Grix, Edge, Ant and others that have told me things the gool ole NM hasn't put into words for a good week or two!
Just a couple of ideas... you MIGHT want to look into the first as I think it would be popular with everyone!
Game: Mr. Goodideas! ^_^
I think you should maybe give us our own free webspace to fill in our details... this way new people could look at peoples:
Hobbies
Favourite Company
Tagline
Favourite Quote
Most respected FOG-er
Gameaday Wins (Maybe - Could cause bitterness)
e-Contacts (i.e MSN Messenger/ICQ/AOL Messenger/other)
Homepage (Self hosted website - ie. FREEOLA / Geocites)
And their FOG friends...(i.e SHEEPY, Time Warp, Ant and Goatboy) [These could be links to their information!]
These are just some of the things we could all fill in for ourselves... more 'inter@ction' is always a good thing and it's what makes SR so cool! Newbies and JAT's could find someone they thing they'll get along with and viola, the SR community grows! They could even search for people who are on-line @ 6:00 pm, who like Nintendo and are friends with Ant!
Do you have ukfindafriend.com?!
My second idea is that we could have a people news page... I know we have the News Monkey and what a primeate he is, but he can't know everything and i've spoken to lots of people like... Grix, Edge, Ant and others that have told me things the gool ole NM hasn't put into words for a good week or two!
Just a couple of ideas... you MIGHT want to look into the first as I think it would be popular with everyone!
Game: Mr. Goodideas! ^_^
Dan 2k1 wrote:
> This high scores thing could be done, and to eliminate cheating there should be specific rules and regulations. For instance, each month, for a prize - perhaps any game of the winner's choice, there should be a competition for each format currently available - it doesn't matter which game SR choose, you may have to buy that game to get good at it, and then send in your photographic proof of the score - don't tamper with the scores, there's no point in cheating - and then the highest score for the month for the game on the format wins.
For example, Gran Turismo 2 for PlayStation: fastest time on a certain track, using only a certain car.
Dreamcast owners could have Soul Calibur as the challenge for the first month - highest win tally in survival,
PS2 owners could have Crazy Taxi or F1 2001 - with a similar scores or time thing,
N64 should be included also - with whatever game SR choose for that challenge,
And then GBA and Game Boy can also have one.
Send in the photo to SR - the winner wins a game.
Has to be monthly to allow time for getting the evidence in.
Thanks
Dan2K1
If you look down I have allready sugested this but I am glad someone also thinks it is a great idea.
> This high scores thing could be done, and to eliminate cheating there should be specific rules and regulations. For instance, each month, for a prize - perhaps any game of the winner's choice, there should be a competition for each format currently available - it doesn't matter which game SR choose, you may have to buy that game to get good at it, and then send in your photographic proof of the score - don't tamper with the scores, there's no point in cheating - and then the highest score for the month for the game on the format wins.
For example, Gran Turismo 2 for PlayStation: fastest time on a certain track, using only a certain car.
Dreamcast owners could have Soul Calibur as the challenge for the first month - highest win tally in survival,
PS2 owners could have Crazy Taxi or F1 2001 - with a similar scores or time thing,
N64 should be included also - with whatever game SR choose for that challenge,
And then GBA and Game Boy can also have one.
Send in the photo to SR - the winner wins a game.
Has to be monthly to allow time for getting the evidence in.
Thanks
Dan2K1
If you look down I have allready sugested this but I am glad someone also thinks it is a great idea.
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