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GreyGriffin member, 5 posts Thu 20 Oct 2016 at 17:28 |
One thing that I would really like to do is see all of the new games. Sometimes, I might want to try a game in a new genre or system if I see a community for it, but it's not something I would normally actively seek out. I think the ability to view games by creation date (or first post), or a quick link that would search for all new games (say, games that are less than 2 months old) would really help create vibrant cross-pollination. Is that something that could be done? Or am I missing some functionality hidden somewhere? | |||||
bigbadron moderator, 15199 posts He's big, he's bad, but mostly he's Ron. Thu 20 Oct 2016 at 17:47 |
If you keep an eye on the Game Proposals, Input and Advice forum ( link to another game ), you will see new games that are being proposed, but have not yet been created (including when the GM actually creates them and posts a link). The Browse / Search the Games function on the main page can be set to only check for active games that are still searching for players, and can be filtered by which ones have the newest posts. | |||||
Shannara moderator, 3678 posts Whatever you do, DON'T PANIC! Thu 20 Oct 2016 at 17:48 |
+1 -- this would be something I'd use if it were available. | |||||
GreyGriffin member, 8 posts Fri 21 Oct 2016 at 23:16 |
2 months is an eternity in pbp games. And a sliding scale of times would be as simple as a dropdown that changed the parameter of the first post date searched. Last week, last month, last 2 months. But yes, I'd love to see what games are going up specifically without having to fish through each genre and system. Just having that data available would be a huge boon to players, GMs, and even admins. What's the community interested in? Should I pick up new books and learn a new system if I want to play more games? Are games going up for games I had given up as lost and haven't searched for in awhile? Are games being mistagged, or am I misinterpreting a genre tag? A list of hundreds of games is fine. Even great. It shows me that the community is really alive. | |||||
Mad Mick member, 879 posts Ain't sayin nothin Got nothin to say Wed 23 Nov 2016 at 03:23 |
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DarkLightHitomi member, 1083 posts Wed 23 Nov 2016 at 04:14 |
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Evil Empryss member, 1511 posts Try tasting your words before spitting them out Wed 23 Nov 2016 at 12:03 |
When a game is created by the GM sometimes has nothing to do when it actually goes live. I've been in games where it took more than two months of fussing with the setting before the game actually starts character creation. And what about those GMs who recycle their games bydeleting all the old threads and starting over? Those wouldn't show up as new, even tho they were. | |||||
NowhereMan member, 102 posts Wed 23 Nov 2016 at 12:16 |
As for game recycling, I suppose those games would be left out in the cold as far as the snapshot is concerned, but that's a conscious choice on the part of the GM, rather than a flaw in the system itself. | |||||
GreyGriffin member, 38 posts Wed 23 Nov 2016 at 16:20 |
No data collation tool is perfectly complete. A new games directory wouldn't invalidate the Looking For Players / Interest Forums. These forums might, in fact, get less congested. Also, giving every game a one-time chance to throw up the New flag, or tying it to the Accepting Players flag (rather than just basing it on creation date) is a fine solution that allows GMs to get their backend in order. | |||||
Evil Empryss member, 1512 posts Try tasting your words before spitting them out Thu 24 Nov 2016 at 02:26 |
And on a purely selfish note (I'll admit it openly) there are other suggestions being floated about that would take less work for jase to implement and provide more use to more users (like the search function being active in games and not just the public forums). I'd like to see some of those implemented first. | |||||
Pat member, 122 posts Thu 24 Nov 2016 at 22:09 |
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