Halomods Ideas

theycallmechad · Post by **theycallmechad** » Sat Nov 18, 2006 11:35 am

Tural wrote:I'd be fine with Munsie and some other responsible people running competitions.

Who are these "responsible people" you speak of? You leave it open like this, too many people will begin thinking they themselves are in that category, even when they may not be qualified.

Munsie · Post by **Munsie** » Sat Nov 18, 2006 11:44 am

theycallmechad wrote:
Tural wrote:I'd be fine with Munsie and some other responsible people running competitions.
Who are these "responsible people" you speak of? You leave it open like this, too many people will begin thinking they themselves are in that category, even when they may not be qualified.

Tural wrote:I'd be fine with Munsie and Chad running competitions.

There. Fixed it.

~Munsie

theycallmechad · Post by **theycallmechad** » Sat Nov 18, 2006 11:46 am

~REPORTED~ for quote fraud!

Tural · Post by **Tural** » Sat Nov 18, 2006 11:48 am

lolB&

Anyways, responsible people would be people who have proven themselves to be competent, kind, fair, and other things. I'm not going to point out a bunch of specific people and exclude others. I trust the people I am talking about would know who they are

Munsie · Post by **Munsie** » Sat Nov 18, 2006 11:50 am

theycallmechad wrote:~REPORTED~ for being too sexy!

What was that? LOL!

I'm pretty sure Tural included you in that statement though. You're the best competition runner guy since sliced bread.

~Munsie

SingingBlaze · Post by **SingingBlaze** » Sat Nov 18, 2006 12:06 pm

If you guys wanted judges or any other help I'd be glad to help. Not run the competition, probably not considered responsible, but I would like to help in any way possible.

ScottyGEE · Post by **ScottyGEE** » Sat Nov 18, 2006 5:37 pm

Well I could continue my skinning contests for one thing

(It would also get more people in if it were deemed official

)

I r teh more repsonsiblenest guy hear...

Underdog · Post by **Underdog** » Sat Nov 18, 2006 7:07 pm

ScottyGEE wrote:Well I could continue my skinning contests for one thing
(It would also get more people in if it were deemed official )

I r teh more repsonsiblenest guy hear...

I concur! hes held numerous successful events and contests.

VitaminMODS · Post by **VitaminMODS** » Sun Nov 19, 2006 9:55 am

for the mod competitions, I say let them whine, because eventually they will go too far and get themselves banned and thats one less little kid to worry about.

Iron_Forge · Post by **Iron_Forge** » Sun Nov 19, 2006 11:12 am

Well...Work's been insane lately...I don't get around to the forum as much as I'd like to...But, since I'm known for it, I thought I'd add my thoughts here...

I'm actually not against unique avatars at all...I think a small 80x80 image under 15K can make your post stand out as your own much quicker than your name can, especially if it is unique...Rule breakers are what really hurts them, much like sig violators...When you have giant avatars (resolution or file size), or animated ones, they become a distraction, and end up just being busy work for moderators...We have enough of that...Personally I'd much rather see avatars allowed, and image signatures disallowed for quick recognition of people...If your post is remotely meaningful, it's probably long enough that the avatar doesn't effect the size of the thread at all, unlike sigs which always add scrolling length, and must be skipped over...

As for being more lenient on sig violations, I'm of course against this...I don't see the point...I've never really seen the point in sigs, but the sigs currently made within regulations seem fine...I know some people complain they can't get their really cool sig small enough given current restrictions, however it doesn't matter what the restriction is, there will always be people who have this issue, which leads to scope creep, where sigs periodically get larger and larger...As for just "allowing sigs" as long as they're close to the limits, I'm against this too...The rules are set for a reason...If the rules are 75K, and your sig is 77K, and "77K is acceptable", then the rule should have just been 77K in the first place...If you start allowing things that are close, you get a grey area in the rules, and that leads to accusations of favoritism...Where one sig is allowed because a staff member thought it looked cool, and another wasn't because it looked stupid, despite being in the same grey area...Halomods has had enough of this kind of bickering in the past to know we don't want to go back there...

All good intentions aside, I don't see an official contest ever working well...I just see this as history repeating itself...Several times contests have gone away...Several times people have brought them back stating "this time, this time it will be different"...And it might even work for a contest or two...But sooner or later, accusations of unfairness will present themselves (usually by myself), and the contest becomes one giant drama, and they go away again...I know it sucks, but at least with unofficial contests, you can say "its my contest, I'll run it how I want, this is who can play, this is the rules this time, and this is who wins"...With an official contest, it just doesn't work...Judges are biased on what they think makes something good...The public is swayed by their friends...There's no way around it...

I do have some ideas on the outstanding mods forum, which I think could bring back some decent interest in it...But they'd require some pretty major changes I don't foresee happening...For now, I guess you just need to realize those areas are biased by staff...It happens, everyone

Exabyte · Post by **Exabyte** » Sun Nov 19, 2006 11:26 am

Tural wrote:lolB&

Anyways, responsible people would be people who have proven themselves to be competent, kind, fair, and other things. I'm not going to point out a bunch of specific people and exclude others. I trust the people I am talking about would know who they are

how about this just like halo mods do mod of the month and mod of the year based on how many votes people have at the end of the time limit exceeded.

Tural · Post by **Tural** » Sun Nov 19, 2006 11:55 am

There won't be any contests in the near future for certain reasons.

StalkingGrunt911 · Post by **StalkingGrunt911** » Sun Nov 19, 2006 2:05 pm

Iron_Forge has spoken =o

Geo · Post by **Geo** » Sun Nov 19, 2006 2:41 pm

He didn't speak, he wrote a freakin essay...

Can I have some staff feedback on my idea on the outstanding/elite/oldschool thing? (On previous page) Thanks

Exabyte · Post by **Exabyte** » Sun Nov 19, 2006 3:11 pm

Iron Forge

It would be unfair to all users to not continue a contest it has proven to work in halomods,even Xtreme mods, halopatch and ect. Why can't we work this out

Thanks guys for editing my post

.

CabooseJr · Post by **CabooseJr** » Sun Nov 19, 2006 5:32 pm

can i say something, i think we should have a forum for halo pc skins, since halo 2 has its own skins forum.

CabooseJr · Post by **CabooseJr** » Mon Nov 20, 2006 6:34 am

err wait. why not we have more themes? cause i hate this new blue one, i loved the old blue and yellow one.

DECOY · Post by **DECOY** » Mon Nov 20, 2006 6:49 am

CabooseJr wrote:err wait. why not we have more themes? cause i hate this new blue one, i loved the old blue and yellow one.

If you add a theme in phpBB, you also have to add whatever mods you have on your current setup to the new theme. Forum mods usually involve editing the view topic or forum files in the templates folder at least, some require a LOT more than that.

So its not just a case of adding a new template to a modded forum setup.

Tural · Post by **Tural** » Mon Nov 20, 2006 7:51 am

No new themes will be added in the future, primarily due to the reasons stated above.

xheadshotmastax · Post by **xheadshotmastax** » Mon Nov 20, 2006 7:55 am

i agree with iron forges "contest part" .