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Posted: February 19, 2009 09:28 am  | |||||
      IRC Nickname: Maths Group: Ex-Member Posts: 1855 Member No.: 54 Joined: December 31, 2007 Total Events Attended: 286    | In looking through the event recaps forum, its not looking good. I, for one, actually look through the recaps and try to find out what happened in events. However this is made hard with [Finished] + [Recap] topics, 50% of which are not complete + have no real recap in them. Here's what I propose: 1. Separate recap topics for each event. 2. [Finished] topics not to exist. First Suggestion With topics in the forum, sometimes the recap is in the [Finished] event, or the recap is written into the sign up topic, which has been moved. This is so annoying to look at. I don't want to be scrolling down all the sign up lists just to look for people's opinions on the event. For each event, there should be a recap topic, with a quote of what the actual event was at the bottom. I find this works effectively to refresh people's mind of the event (if they didn't attend). An example would be.
Second Suggestion Very simple really. We don't need [Finished] + [Recap]. 2 recap topics for the 1 event is pointless. They can be done in 1 topic as explained above. For war sign ups, if the warlords need the sign up list, then it would be quite easy to move the whole sign up topic to lvl 3/4. Edit: Recap topics tend to get worse when we lose a war too. Who cares if we lose? Tell us what we did wrong. Tell us what we can improve on. Sometimes I come on of a morning + see a half done recap, which doesn't tell me anything, and I can only gathered we lost. Please put some effort in, we do read them ! Thoughts/ideas? --------------------  "Journeys are what brings us happiness, Not the destination." ~ Two time ex-raid leader of wg ~  | ||||
Posted: February 19, 2009 10:05 am | |||||
 IRC Nickname: Jesseh Group: Guest Posts: 2670 Member No.: 297 Joined: March 8, 2008 Total Events Attended: 222 | I try and do that, but i generally move them to finished when they've been in the events section for over a week with no recap, it makes the event forum/war forum look very messy if they have been there and thats of main importance so members know what events are going on rather than what has finished. I can see your point and i do try to write a bit about my recaps but sometimes only the attendance is needed if no1 has sent you any picture. I'm thinking about going back to using swiftkit so i can take more pictures as i generally don't take them as its a pain in the middle of a war. Your suggestions are good and people do try and do this, but i think keeping the event forum clean is better than keeping the recap forum clean. --------------------   17/6/08--> 12/9/08--> 29/11/08--> 5/1/09--> 2/3/09(Left)--> 19/7/09(Rejoin)--> 2/8/09
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Posted: February 19, 2009 10:30 am | |||||
 IRC Nickname: Gorgemaster Group: Elite Guardian Posts: 9840 Member No.: 3 Joined: December 26, 2007 Total Events Attended: 540 | I do all my recaps in the format you suggested above so yah  We also need people to take more pictures at events.... people refuse and then we have nothing for the wg.com photo albums. --------------------    | ||||
Posted: February 19, 2009 10:31 am | |||||
 IRC Nickname: Pazenon Group: Emeritus Posts: 1477 Member No.: 33 Joined: December 30, 2007 Total Events Attended: 79 | I totally agree with you. One point you've mentioned and I'd like to emphasize is what happens when we lose a war... sometimes the original topic just gets moved to 'recaps' and nobody bothers to write a summary of why we lost and how it would be possible for us to improve next time. That happens sometimes. -------------------- | ||||
Posted: February 19, 2009 11:36 am | |||||
 IRC Nickname: megajayson Group: Elite Guardian Posts: 9246 Member No.: 423 Joined: April 4, 2008 Total Events Attended: 216 | i post what happened in the event, highlights, let downs, what to improve. then attendance, randoms. all gud --------------------  This is ten percent luck, twenty percent skill Fifteen percent concentrated power of will Five percent pleasure, fifty percent pain And a hundred percent reason to remember the name! 7th Highest Overall for Wars Attended. | ||||
Posted: February 19, 2009 12:29 pm | |||||
 IRC Nickname: DZ Group: Elite Guardian Posts: 2991 Member No.: 18 Joined: December 29, 2007 Total Events Attended: 238 | I have always liked the idea of separate recap topics and used them previously. I agree with you, I hate scrolling to see sign-ups when I went peoples views on the event. -------------------- Now back to the good part! | ||||
Posted: February 19, 2009 12:56 pm | |||||
 IRC Nickname: Dnovelta Group: Emeritus Posts: 2750 Member No.: 130 Joined: January 20, 2008 Total Events Attended: 137 | Totally agree with you. I remember this being suggested before as well. I really hate having to go to page 5 of whatever of the original topic, sifting through all the previous posts to get to the first one about the actual event. I want to know how it went, what I missed and if it's something I might enjoy doing myself. I mean we kind of have half of this suggestion implemented. We generally get an even topic, moved to the recap forum and "changed" into a recap topic. The original post becomes quoted and put at the bottom with the recap at the top, but there is still the problem of having the useless information that was there when the event was announced. I would LOVE to see this put into play. --------------------   | ||||
Posted: February 19, 2009 12:59 pm | |||||
 IRC Nickname: Dilz Group: Banned Posts: 1403 Member No.: 973 Joined: June 23, 2008 Total Events Attended: 151 |
I view topics using the most active topics, and it does get annoying when I see [FINISHED] --------------------  LOLPNS  Perm banned. | ||||
Posted: February 19, 2009 03:03 pm | |||||
 IRC Nickname: Indivi2you Group: Elite Guardian Posts: 5361 Member No.: 43 Joined: December 30, 2007 Total Events Attended: 623 | I make good recaps  i think? -------------------- The First, The Last, and the Only ~FLO Never say never, because limits, like fears, are often just an illusion. ~Michael Jordan      | ||||
Posted: February 19, 2009 07:05 pm | |||||
 IRC Nickname: Ret[Keith] Group: Emeritus Posts: 2049 Member No.: 86 Joined: January 1, 2008 Total Events Attended: 82 | I hate how they are just moved to begin with :V It's annoying to try and look for people's triumphs and responses when you have to scroll through over 9000 "I'll be/not be there" Totally agree -------------------- Best Firemaker in WG no lie   <--- rofl1st joined WG: October 18th, 2005. Ex-WG mod, OPH winner  ^My original idea (U GOIN DOWN TWIZ)^ 189th person to get "100" firemaking Hash Unit, Tun Unit, C-Unit    | ||||
Posted: February 20, 2009 09:20 pm | |||||
 IRC Nickname: Vephy Group: Elite Guardian Posts: 6186 Member No.: 813 Joined: June 10, 2008 Total Events Attended: 478 | Few months back I think I remembered the recaps being little bit more detailed. Win or lose in a war as well. It would be good to have these recaps be more in depth in what happened. Especially if its a war, its nice to reference things we did well and things we need to work on. I'll try to take more screenshots and post them as well. --------------------   | ||||
Posted: February 21, 2009 01:58 am | |||||
| IRC Nickname: Group: Elite Guardian Posts: 7306 Member No.: 47 Joined: December 30, 2007 Total Events Attended: 343 |
99% of my kills are screenied and posted to my blog on RSC, you choose not to use them.  -------------------- July 5, 2007 - June 27, 2011 | ||||
Posted: February 21, 2009 02:54 am | |||||
 IRC Nickname: Plano|Adam Group: Emeritus Posts: 1449 Member No.: 228 Joined: February 13, 2008 Total Events Attended: 107 | well put, i am pretty confused at that myself. --------------------  "If at first you don’t succeed, call it version 1.0" | ||||
Posted: February 21, 2009 10:04 am | |||||
 IRC Nickname: rachellove Group: Council Posts: 6955 Member No.: 173 Joined: January 31, 2008 Total Events Attended: 305 | I agree. Having the recap makes it more easy to read. --------------------  Thank you Garrett and Dallar. “The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help them or concluded that you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.” ~~Colin Powell ~~  | ||||
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