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(10-09-2014, 04:58 PM)Falaflame Wrote: My goal was to make this place a lot more friendly to newcoming guests and people willing to give this place a second chance, and I'm glad to see the fruits of my labor worked wonders. My point is, however, that there still is work to be done here. You mention the site activity and lack of general interest, but I think there's more left to improve. And the biggest thing to work on right now is general motivation.

Not to demean you here, but that was all of our goals, even if we didn't think it. It was by virtue of who we were as people. And let's be honest: even before you became admin we had this corrected. Hell, we had this corrected before I even returned. Y'all are just THAT damn good.

Quote:The lack of general motivation is keeping the community from moving forward. This right here is the biggest issue. Nobody really felt compelled to want to do anything to make FEP stand out, nor do they have the opportunity even if they did want to. For example, sirocyl hasn't really done much for the past 3-4 months. The plan was to get FETO off of the previous platform the forums were once on, and since he has a job and an urgency to get out of the hamptons, that's really not going to happen unless someone else steps up. And herein lies the next problem: No one else would step up. We've only had a handful of people who applied to be testers for FETO, and less than half of that were active members of the community. Even lesser had the knowledge or theory to actually make something out of, for example, HTML5. I even brought up the idea that we could seek help from sister sites such as Serene's Forest, but no one really fueled any discussion about it. So really, the motivation just wasn't there.

I got all of that but the experience. =(

As for serene's discussion, I do remember talking about this and you're definitely right about no one bringing it up. So then...

Broseidon, you're the admin, don't be a pleb and fuel some discussion about it, why don't you? I feel as though throughout all of your flaws, motivation isn't one of them, which, with our other two admins being the way they are, makes giving swift kicks to the pants to get going your job.

Though, I guess I did kinda ragequit after the whole "this game is too luckbased; fix it or I'm dropping your asses" deal, so I'm not helping too much there. I was serious when I mentioned the problem of having every luck-based event in FETO have two outcomes (hit or miss). In a balanced game (say, advance wars), the damage would look like a bell curve. Not necessarily using advance wars as an example, in an ideal situation, the average damage might be 20 with a 30% of it being 19-21 and maybe an 80% chance of being 16-24. Get what I'm saying? It wouldn't just have a hit% chance of doing (AVG DMG)/hit% and the remaining chance of doing 0 damage.

No one would take me up on that, though. Except Leaf, because Leaf is obviously a genius like myself (though not nearly as mad).

Quote:The site for the past couple of years has grown stagnant because of the unwillingness nor the opportunity to take the site to the next level. I mean, when it's 2014, and we're 3 games behind (at least 5 years behind) in site content, we're not going to attract any people here. And it's going to stay like this until someone steps up and does something. Sirocyl has proven to us that he can't do everything by himself, so he needs the support. Otherwise, we're not going to be here come 2015.

Maybe I should make another topic telling you guys to get your shit together and see if another set of gears are set in motion. Unfortunately, there's only so much we can do as generic run of the mill users. I lent my help for game design and idea but that's really all I'm good for.

Not gonna lie, it's extremely amazing that you got Siro. I don't think we'll have another case with a friend of ours being an experienced coder willing to work for a site he's never heard of for free. You pulled in a favor that can't really be replicated without money.