Wolf Prince
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Post by Wolf Prince on Sept 5, 2014 20:33:34 GMT -5
So to the pokemon chaos community, as you may know Aquablast has retired from administrator and that means some things might need to get changed to help prevent future problems. One of those problems is aquablast had been one of the greatest promoters/advertisers of the forum and we are going to be in need of one soon as time progresses. I myself am not very good advertising or promoting but I will try to do what I can and would like to ask for the help of the current members, please suggest how we can advertise the forum or try to execute your own idea. Anything helps. And well that is one of the greatest things I had to address but the next point I want to make notice of is some Pokemon of the Month themes are quite old and could require a remake, or if decided by you guys, be deleted in absolute. This also will come with the addition of more icons/emotes such as this one: . Of course I will be adding the basic pokeball icons such as the Great ball, Ultra ball. Aside from these ones i would also like to add a few pokemon and trainers(Since I can't add all of the current pokemon i am asking you to suggest the ones you would like). And well returning to the themes here is a list of the ones i believe are quite outdated when compared to the rest: Pokemon of the Month:-August, 2013: Nincada -July, 2013: Whimsicott Special themes-Xerneas -Yveltal *Chespin *Fennekin *Froakie So some of you may remember that to commemorate the release of pokemon X/Y themes were released of the 3 starters of that region, they were apparantly removed but if suggested to remake them I will gladly re-do them. If you want me to remake a theme which is not mentioned feel free to mention it, however the ones which I do see people keep suggesting or agreeing on, they shall be the ones I remake. I also want to add more stuff to the default pokemon chaos theme, however that will take more time, just a heads up for what is to come. Now... I know most of the people here are currently having some trouble with school and I understand as I myself am in school and also have some activity problems due to that> Yet, I want to still ask those of you who are part of the pokemon chaos channel to try to upload something once a month, since the more active a channel is the more likely it is to get views and that would be the equivalent of more promotion for the forum. I myself will attempt to do a video in the near future for the channel. If I recall correctly zerocielX and/or Steelgrassify are in charge of the channel. Well I want to add more stuff, but that will be something for another day, thank you for taking your time reading this everyone. To the grammar nazi staff members, feel free to correct mistakes made in this post.
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Steelgrassify
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Post by Steelgrassify on Sept 6, 2014 8:35:13 GMT -5
Good place to start if you ask me, getting all of the themes up to date and making some aesthetic changes to the forums. I think it's worth remaking the gen 6 starter themes, just for the potential that people liked them and would allow new members to find that theme and enjoy it. However, I would not put it that high on your priority list, rather work on some of the other things mentioned. Just an idea, and we'll see how it's accepted, but as sort of a reward for activity, you could give all members with a certain amount of posts a special icon. For example, we could do it for everyone over 250 posts, I get over 250 posts and a new icon being Ferrothorn would be available. I think the idea could be adapted, but I think it's important that we get some of the newer members to stay on the forums too. Audience retention is something fairly important to me.
Otherwise I think if we can get zero to pump out some of the tourney battles I can think of something to upload to the channel. An idea would be when the new games are released, I'd do showdown updates on the meta's. Think of it as a news report kind of thing, where each story is new news on a tier. This including pokemon tier changes, clause updates, and some other ideas I have.
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Wolf Prince
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Post by Wolf Prince on Sept 6, 2014 10:12:28 GMT -5
Good place to start if you ask me, getting all of the themes up to date and making some aesthetic changes to the forums. I think it's worth remaking the gen 6 starter themes, just for the potential that people liked them and would allow new members to find that theme and enjoy it. However, I would not put it that high on your priority list, rather work on some of the other things mentioned. Just an idea, and we'll see how it's accepted, but as sort of a reward for activity, you could give all members with a certain amount of posts a special icon. For example, we could do it for everyone over 250 posts, I get over 250 posts and a new icon being Ferrothorn would be available. I think the idea could be adapted, but I think it's important that we get some of the newer members to stay on the forums too. Audience retention is something fairly important to me. Otherwise I think if we can get zero to pump out some of the tourney battles I can think of something to upload to the channel. An idea would be when the new games are released, I'd do showdown updates on the meta's. Think of it as a news report kind of thing, where each story is new news on a tier. This including pokemon tier changes, clause updates, and some other ideas I have. Very well, i am currently working on the new icons, with luck they will be available by today or at least the pokeball icons. As for the activity reward i will start researching about it to get it implemented. Of course once i find out how to do implement it, i will make it available for the members to vote which pokemon or image should be used for the members with the post count mentioned. And your idea for the competitive/tier news is very good(I myself could use it since i get easily lost in the tier changes). Edit: It appears it look less than expected to add the pokeball icons, i have uploaded them to most themes excluding the ones which are pending for an update. If i missed uploading the icons to a theme, feel free to tell me so i can upload them to that theme. I decided to use a smaller version of the original pokeball icon so it could look more of the same size as the text.
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Draconaitr25
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Post by Draconaitr25 on Sept 6, 2014 10:51:00 GMT -5
How about new videos in the forum's and youtube channel. I liked the OU Tournament and maybe adding new tournaments will help in advertising. Or much easier, we can make a thread: listing battles we can make in pokemon showdown for fun and post it here or in youtube with/out commentary (as you like). For example: September Wolf Prince vs Steelgrassify Uber; October Draconaitr25 vs Skarm LC. Just an option.
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Skarm
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Post by Skarm on Sept 6, 2014 13:06:35 GMT -5
Draconaitr25 yeah. or we can make a forum clan and terrorize pokemon showdown as teamchaos, getting on the ladder and whatnot and post them on youtube.
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zerocielX
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Post by zerocielX on Sept 6, 2014 13:18:44 GMT -5
I should probably upload the rest of the tourney battles, huh?
But seriously, looking forward to what new changes you have planned, Wolf. And you know I'm all about the YouTube channel, so I will try to put more effort into it.
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Skarm
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Post by Skarm on Sept 6, 2014 13:51:55 GMT -5
O, what about implementing badges, that way we can prove what tournaments we won, badges could also be used for something the user did for the forum, like if he/she recruits, give away pokemon, etc?
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Draconaitr25
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Post by Draconaitr25 on Sept 6, 2014 14:01:03 GMT -5
IDK Skarm. That is higly overpopular in many threads/boards. Although it will be nifty to have.
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Wolf Prince
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Post by Wolf Prince on Sept 6, 2014 14:15:29 GMT -5
O, what about implementing badges, that way we can prove what tournaments we won, badges could also be used for something the user did for the forum, like if he/she recruits, give away pokemon, etc? This could be done along with Steel's suggestion for the icon for users with a certain amount of posts. Once i find how to do with i will create a tournament for the first badge competition.
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Skarm
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Post by Skarm on Sept 6, 2014 14:21:10 GMT -5
IDK Skarm. That is higly overpopular in many threads/boards. Although it will be nifty to have. So? It makes us more pro looking and appeal to the audience. And it doesn't need to be pokemon gym badges, just medal in general that shows certain achievement.
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Post by Zermonious on Sept 6, 2014 15:10:33 GMT -5
I could POSSIBLY help make art for user icons and badges?
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Wolf Prince
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Post by Wolf Prince on Sept 6, 2014 15:14:02 GMT -5
YOu can submit your art, as well as everyone else willing to make them and put it up to vote which ones should be used.
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Skarm
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Post by Skarm on Sept 6, 2014 15:27:31 GMT -5
Wolf Prince when you have enough submissions could you make a poll to let the users vote?
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Draconaitr25
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Post by Draconaitr25 on Sept 6, 2014 16:03:50 GMT -5
Can we have our own badge, and the only way to have it, is by defeating him in a pokemon battle? I am also able to help in the art section along with Zermonious, if you need something Wolf Prince
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Wolf Prince
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Post by Wolf Prince on Sept 6, 2014 18:12:13 GMT -5
Wolf Prince when you have enough submissions could you make a poll to let the users vote? If by that you mean to vote for the badges then sure.
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