King of the Wastes
Wasteland King
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Post by King of the Wastes on Apr 24, 2010 16:05:41 GMT -5
You should make it so that each rank for post count has something to do with the pa genre. Also a homemade weapons' would be interesting, I make spears and want to get more into bows and arrows so being able to give out tips and tricks would be pretty cool. Homemade firearms would be interesting as well.
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Post by MegaDude on Apr 24, 2010 18:01:48 GMT -5
You should make it so that each rank for post count has something to do with the pa genre. Also a homemade weapons' would be interesting, I make spears and want to get more into bows and arrows so being able to give out tips and tricks would be pretty cool. Homemade firearms would be interesting as well. I'm not really sure what those are. Is that what they mean when they say rank icons? Is that controlled by just the number posts in the topic or some kind of vote by the readers? But in general I'm trying to fine an icon set to replace all the current colorful cartoon looking icons. I've got a few that I'm testing out. You can see the experimental icon by changing the default skin in your user profile to Test.
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King of the Wastes
Wasteland King
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Post by King of the Wastes on Apr 24, 2010 18:25:21 GMT -5
You should make it so that each rank for post count has something to do with the pa genre. Also a homemade weapons' would be interesting, I make spears and want to get more into bows and arrows so being able to give out tips and tricks would be pretty cool. Homemade firearms would be interesting as well. I'm not really sure what those are. Is that what they mean when they say rank icons? Is that controlled by just the number posts in the topic or some kind of vote by the readers? But in general I'm trying to fine an icon set to replace all the current colorful cartoon looking icons. I've got a few that I'm testing out. You can see the experimental icon by changing the default skin in your user profile to Test. It's controlled by post number. I have some icons, they are all Fallout for the most part though.
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Post by wastelandz on May 5, 2010 17:25:37 GMT -5
I have to ideas of new subforums.
1. Dystopia. Dystopian books and movies are strongly connected to the postapocalyptic genre but many dystopian works are not strictly post-apocalyptic, the world have gone crazy but it's the doomsday of mankind, not in every case at least. So I think a dystopian subforum would fit in great here. I guess most people that like PA likes dystopian works as well. For example I woulnd't dare posting a thread about children of men in the movie subforum beacuse it's not PA-ish enough even though it's about an really dark future. Therefore we can keep strictly guidlines of whats PA or not and send everything dystopic to the dystopian subforum and keep the real the real PA stuff for it self. The Red Dawn thread is a great example of this, beacuse it's really not PA at all in my opinion, but really dystopic. And this subforum might also bring people that are more into dystopian stuff to this site and therefor get more people interested in the PA-genre.
My second suggestion is more of a long shot. I suggest a Cyberpunk subforum. I think it's a really cool genre to and highly related to the PA-genre but doesn't really fit in beacuse as in dystopian stuff - it isn't apocalyptic enough. Even though there is a very dark future in cyberpunk to but with cool tech and megacorporations instead of roadwarriors and the search for clean water.
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Post by MegaDude on May 5, 2010 17:48:57 GMT -5
The dystopia suggestion is interesting. You're right that there's usually an overlap between dystopian and PA. For your Children of Men example, I'd definitely call it post-apocalyptic (in fact I just finished the book yesterday), and it's usually mentioned on lists of the best PA films ever.
I think it's pretty well established that PA and dystopian fiction are very similar and often related, so there would be no problem with discussing topics that are more down at the dystopian end of the spectrum in a PA forum. Usually before society can become a dystopia there's usually some sort of catastrophe or collapse that led to it.
I guess it wouldn't hurt to add a board for it, and then see if we get any posts. If not we can always blend it back into the PA boards. But I won't separate it out into different media types yet. We'll just have one catch-all board.
Any suggestions for a clever name for it?
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King of the Wastes
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Post by King of the Wastes on May 5, 2010 18:28:12 GMT -5
Dystopian Life
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King of the Wastes
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Post by King of the Wastes on May 9, 2010 21:09:36 GMT -5
I still think that it should be called Dystopian Life, but that's me. One thing that would be nice to have is a forum dedicated to bunker's, silo's, defense line's, the such. I plan on making some with a friend out in the desert.
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Post by MegaDude on May 9, 2010 21:33:17 GMT -5
I still think that it should be called Dystopian Life, but that's me. One thing that would be nice to have is a forum dedicated to bunker's, silo's, defense line's, the such. I plan on making some with a friend out in the desert. That's not a bad idea. For now, we'll put those conversations in Equipment or Planning, but if there are enough of them then we can think about breaking out their own category.
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King of the Wastes
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Post by King of the Wastes on May 9, 2010 23:14:03 GMT -5
Cool, if I think of anything else I will be sure to tell you.
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Post by Meat Shield on May 13, 2010 6:36:57 GMT -5
I have 1 small thing. On the change the page to page 2. Right now, you manually put in the number, 2 or 3. Is it possible for that to just be hyperlinked numbers?
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Post by MegaDude on May 13, 2010 12:32:01 GMT -5
I have 1 small thing. On the change the page to page 2. Right now, you manually put in the number, 2 or 3. Is it possible for that to just be hyperlinked numbers? They're hard to click, but they are hyperlinked now. Where it says "Page 1 of 2" that 2 is hyperlinked. And also when you hover over that text, you get a popup that says "Go To: 1 2 3"; each of those page numbers is linked too. But you're right, it's not set up very well. But that kind of stuff is beyond our control.
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Post by Meat Shield on May 14, 2010 3:37:55 GMT -5
well I had no idea about the hover functionality.
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Denny
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Post by Denny on May 28, 2010 14:53:45 GMT -5
This forum is missing a "New Posts" link, or "Unread Posts" Either I fail to find them, or they're not present.
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Corny
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Post by Corny on May 30, 2010 14:53:37 GMT -5
Especially because the categories lie about unread posts in there
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Post by MegaDude on May 30, 2010 15:13:35 GMT -5
According to the support boards, they know that "show unread posts" is a much-requested feature, and it might happen in version 5 of the software, which is due out this year I think.
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