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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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Lucky Dip
To encourage more users to be introduced to the SR network you could serve a lucky dip hold once a month. Only a few people would be able to be in the lucky dip as it would depend on their word count and post count over the last month. Thus encouraging them to post on the discussions.
So if their word and post count is over the right number then they are able to win the lucky dip which the winner is chosen at random and given a prize.
It would be intresting if this prize was a choice of 3 diffrent lucky choices:
1. Could be the best prize
2. Could be the second best prize
3. Could be the worst prize
These would not be in order though, in a random order and the winner not told what each numbers prize is. Though the winner would be told what the prizes were and so would add tension.
It would be a great competion.
To encourage more users to be introduced to the SR network you could serve a lucky dip hold once a month. Only a few people would be able to be in the lucky dip as it would depend on their word count and post count over the last month. Thus encouraging them to post on the discussions.
So if their word and post count is over the right number then they are able to win the lucky dip which the winner is chosen at random and given a prize.
It would be intresting if this prize was a choice of 3 diffrent lucky choices:
1. Could be the best prize
2. Could be the second best prize
3. Could be the worst prize
These would not be in order though, in a random order and the winner not told what each numbers prize is. Though the winner would be told what the prizes were and so would add tension.
It would be a great competion.
You could have a page devoted to your brillant banners that have been made.
Sadly many of them get taken off the site and never seen again, not because of their great designs but click through rate.
It would be great if you had a page where people could browse through your banners old and new, not all have to be placed, maybe just some of the best.
Maybe viewers could give them a rating out of 10?
Sadly many of them get taken off the site and never seen again, not because of their great designs but click through rate.
It would be great if you had a page where people could browse through your banners old and new, not all have to be placed, maybe just some of the best.
Maybe viewers could give them a rating out of 10?
If someone won a challange set by SR they would be changed from a regular to a cheatguru?
What???? Explain!!!!
What???? Explain!!!!
How about: Cheatguru?
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:-))))))))
Oh right, I am thick.
Well the people don't have to give a winner the name Gamesmaster, they can be called a Gameing God or somthing.
feel free to add your own sugestions for a name.
Well the people don't have to give a winner the name Gamesmaster, they can be called a Gameing God or somthing.
feel free to add your own sugestions for a name.
I wasn't saying magazines do a similar thing! In fact Nintendo Official Magazine do it...but that's not the point!
You are definately slow to see what I meant!
Read the 2 messages before this one again!
You are definately slow to see what I meant!
Read the 2 messages before this one again!
Yes Edgy, games magasines run a very similer thing but there is not reason to say SR can't do it aswell.
I think the magazine Gamesmaster would have something to say about that....
But maybe giving the winners an award or something would be great!
Plus the challenges could carry on til Special REserve finally close down their shutters for the last time (hopefully never) So that if anyone does eventually beat the scores...they can at least get a certificate that they can keep to prove they've done it.
But maybe giving the winners an award or something would be great!
Plus the challenges could carry on til Special REserve finally close down their shutters for the last time (hopefully never) So that if anyone does eventually beat the scores...they can at least get a certificate that they can keep to prove they've done it.
Doh!
I was just thinkin of saying fastest scroes and times.
It is a great idea because people would always come back to see it they are top of the list.
This is different though.
SR challanges-how about sr sent a challange every month or so and people try it.
EG-get the highest score possable on the hanger level of Tony Hawks 2.
People would then go and try the challange and send a photo to SR with the highest score they could acheve.
The challange could be changed every month as I said, or even every 2 weeks.
It would be great because everyone would return to check the new challange and also to see if they won the last one.
If SR are feeling generous they could give a game away to the person who wins the challange, or they could get they name in a different colour and instead od "regular" or "newbie" under there name they could have GAMESMASTER.
I like this idea, what do you think?
I was just thinkin of saying fastest scroes and times.
It is a great idea because people would always come back to see it they are top of the list.
This is different though.
SR challanges-how about sr sent a challange every month or so and people try it.
EG-get the highest score possable on the hanger level of Tony Hawks 2.
People would then go and try the challange and send a photo to SR with the highest score they could acheve.
The challange could be changed every month as I said, or even every 2 weeks.
It would be great because everyone would return to check the new challange and also to see if they won the last one.
If SR are feeling generous they could give a game away to the person who wins the challange, or they could get they name in a different colour and instead od "regular" or "newbie" under there name they could have GAMESMASTER.
I like this idea, what do you think?
Uploads section: For those who have pictures sound files from their favourite films and games (to go with Gameaday and Filmaday)
UK discussion members could upload their files to share with everyone! However they would have to be free/shareware otherwise SR would have to take them off again....however if there was a disclaimer for that section.....
Game files!: For some reason, some people like to download other people's saved games from different PC games. Maybe this would be a good idea for SR to take up!
UK discussion members could upload their files to share with everyone! However they would have to be free/shareware otherwise SR would have to take them off again....however if there was a disclaimer for that section.....
Game files!: For some reason, some people like to download other people's saved games from different PC games. Maybe this would be a good idea for SR to take up!
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