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 Posted: 02/Apr/2006 - 1:54 pm Post subject: The Future of F.O.G |
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Time to decide on the future for the Front for Organised Gaming. The original mandate was to bring gamers together and form more of a community, both locally and globally, for those gamers not served elsewhere. In this we have only partially succeeded so the following questions need addressing...
- What needs improving on the website?
- Is there a role for F.O.G off-line, and what?
- How can we reach more people?
If anyone has any opinions on these subjects I'd be happy to hear them. This is a community site so it belongs to it's members and you all have a say in what happens.
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Lurkinggherkin
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| Posted: 03/Apr/2006 - 9:43 am Post subject: The Future of F.O.G |
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| Fishy wrote: | Time to decide on the future for the Front for Organised Gaming. The original mandate was to bring gamers together and form more of a community, both locally and globally, for those gamers not served elsewhere. In this we have only partially succeeded so the following questions need addressing...
- What needs improving on the website?
- Is there a role for F.O.G off-line, and what?
- How can we reach more people?
If anyone has any opinions on these subjects I'd be happy to hear them. This is a community site so it belongs to it's members and you all have a say in what happens. |
In what way has the site failed to live up to your expectations, Fishy? As a newcomer to the site I have to say that i've found it quite a good resource. I check in here most days to see what's up. My players haven't created id's on the site but I think they come here every once in a while, to catch up on the GG campaign journal if nothing else. I now use the 'NameMage' software on a regular basis to generate names for my NPCs - which I discovered through this site.
Are you concerned about retention rates? Do you feel that people come here, find that it's a low-traffic site, and then drift away because it's too quiet?
F.O.G. Offline - Hmmm. Like a regular Thanet hobby meet or convention-type thing?
Or a more fluid exchange of players and referees rather than everyone remaining 'frozen' into their regular gaming groups?
Reaching more people - well, I found this site because I went looking for it. Otherwise I would never have stumbled across it in a million years. You could always throw some porn keywords into the site header to get more search engine hits I suppose.  |
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| Posted: 03/Apr/2006 - 9:52 am Post subject: |
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Or bribe me, who now works for Google....
My thoughts? I can honestly say, "What he said."
*hugs the gherkin*
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Lurkinggherkin
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| Posted: 03/Apr/2006 - 9:55 am Post subject: |
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| JackTheCake wrote: | | *hugs the gherkin* |
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| Posted: 03/Apr/2006 - 3:10 pm Post subject: |
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| Crap, i broke it. |
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Fishy
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| Posted: 04/Apr/2006 - 6:03 pm Post subject: The Future of F.O.G |
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| Lurkinggherkin wrote: |
Or a more fluid exchange of players and referees rather than everyone remaining 'frozen' into their regular gaming groups?
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Sort of what I had in mind. I know that there are a lot of gamers locally, including a bunch I've played with over the years and lost track of for one reason or another, but they don't have a lot of contact. Posting campaign journals on here gives people some idea of what's happening and the site is useful for arranging a game once you know someone else is here, but I'd like to see a better exchange of information.
For RPGs it's OK, you can post if you want more players and that's ok (though I've still had no real response to my obSESSION playtest request) but a better organisation of CCGs and things would be useful. And before anyone complains, I know that I live round the corner from a venue that hosts regular M:TG games and I've never been - I'm just anti-social.  Besides, I've not been playing long, they'd kick my arse!
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Fishy
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In the words of The Alarm ; "It's been a long time coming and it's good to be back"... almost.
With the days getting longer and unemployment looming I'm finally making a start on redesigning the site. The current plan is to keep the Forums pretty much as they are now, with a little tidying of course, and build "sub-sites" for anything else that gets added. The fogonline.com/co/uk domain will point to welcome page that will, in turn, point to the sub-sites. The Forums will still be at community.fogonline.com like they are/were and the new look won't interfere with anyone who just bookmarks that sub-site (the most common tactic, I believe.
I also want to include a new HinT site, even though there are only three regularly active members. We've started doing some card gaming again and the new Fight Klub game from Decipher could well promote more (tell 'em Fishy sent you  ). If anyone has anything interesting that they thing would fit then I'm quite happy to set up further sub-sites, including linking a subdomain to an existing website elsewhere on the web.
As you can see, the new idea is more akin to the spider-web nature of the internet as a whole, a distributed web resource with elements maintained by different people and connected by the fogonline domain. Suggestions and offers of help are appreciated and can be posted in this thread.
OOI, I have locked the "Adjustment to the Forums" thread and will probably lock a few other older threads in order to separate out the previous "where are we going" talks from the new ones. 
I will not lock anything that I think is still ongoing (even if it's been a while) or that I'm specifically asked to keep open.
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Lurkinggherkin
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| Posted: 15/Mar/2009 - 1:29 pm Post subject: A Welcome Return |
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| Nice to see you back! I'm too busy with other projects these days to maintain my campaign journals, but 'Gherkin's Greyhawk' is still very much alive and kicking, on a weekly basis. And I do still check in here from time to time. |
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Fishy
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| Posted: 15/Mar/2009 - 1:54 pm Post subject: |
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Good to see you still around.
If you find yourself thinking "I wish I knew a site that did that" then feel free to post the suggested activity on here.
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Gherkin. Be aware that the great, powerful, and thoroughly creamed Germanic forces opefully won't be QUITE such a walkover next time out.
Hopefully 
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| Posted: 17/Mar/2009 - 8:32 pm Post subject: Quaking in my boots! |
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...though if you join us for another game you won't necessarily get to play Germany next time. Countries are allocated randomly.
I'm a bit busy to organise another game right now but maybe in a couple of weeks time I might get something going. |
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