what are your ideas on restoring activity on the forum?

one of mine.. include hosting bdx's flash else where and then linking it directly to here so if any one wants to see bdx's flash (in case ng takes the earlier series offline to make room) they can watch it here like they can his previews.. B)

what are your ideas?

that seems like a good idea, newgrounds is pretty unpredictable afterall.

well i say send a message to all the members to see if they want to come back (or find out if they forgot their passwords/ lost the address/been having family or life issues)

maybe a newer look would help attract the people, i dunno how much you suggest people visit this forum but maybe you could try putting it up on google (or eqivalent) if you havent done that already, have you tried joining with other forums that share a common interest? (making like a flash web ring?)

And put a set of avatars people can use instead of making thir own.

those are all very good ideas.. however about the avatar thing you dont have to make your own... you can always use a pic of your own to upload... but we'll look into it and see what we can do B)

i think bdx should redo his sonic smilies and his chaos emeralds in photoshop so you dont see the white boxes.. and give them a transparent background that way the stand out from the darker backgrounds giving it a 3d look... i have a plugin that turns white into transparency B)

its not even that hard, could do it in fireworks, be as simple as removing the white, set the tolerance on the wand tool and just remove the white. and control+z if you make a mistake.

maybe mine isnt a good example but i made it not specifically for an avatar (infact im not sure why i created it, bored i guess) but when your setting your options you could set an avatar that is common to the site. (one that was set by the admins as an alternative)

needless to say, when we post the games, i m going to make it so that the post counts wont increase when posting high scores. that way ppl dont just post random numbers to increase their post count. and members who contributed with games of their own making should get 60 post points. B)

Cool.

Here's another idea? How about an IBSstore? You get your currency from posting and getting high scores in games and such. Then you can buy things like name effects and if there were a bank you could store your currency and collect rings from interest.

That might be alittle too much but the currency thing would be cool.

but then whats to stop people from making alot of remake games to up their post counts?

Hey, Ultimate Flash Sonic was a remake and it was good.
Besides they'll be judged first before post counts are increased. (Or I'd hope so.)

ok that makes sense, but yeah ultimate flash sonic was good, someone put alot of time into that. but it was a remake but i mean like make a basic template (ie a quiz) and like just change the answers/questions to resubmit it as a different game?

I see your point, but quizzes are a different story.

ah, i wasnt sure on that, but then otherwise yeah its pretty much good to go then.
we all agree on it, dont we?

I agree.

and this currency idea its good, but how could you get it to work?

im on board with that currency idea..
(btw are seriously increasing our post points or what?)

that currency idea is good.
(yeah were making our post counts go way up, but its important discussion that is vital to the site and not spam so its very good. )

Like this.

Reply to a topic: 10 points

Start a poll: 15 points

Start a topic: 20 points

Something like that.

ok and then how much points would be converted to how much of other?

thats good. i like that, because we are actually giving them incentives to be more active.. something for everybody B)

ok guys, im gonna go to that site and upload a few games to see if they load here ok?

What you mean other?

i'll leave the skinning up to bdx... i just hope that he and every1 likes the changes i made.. B)

The games are awesome. Add some more.

ok i think i'll add a poll to see which`games you guys prefer.. needless to say, the classics will remain..B)

<= i added new smiles from my site (i wanted to add some color cuz the yellow was drivin me nuts..) i am not quite done with adding them though.. you like?

from points to rings is it? (like how many points equals 1 ring?)

the new smilies are good, definatly stand out from the others.

i havent checked out the games you've set yet ( but i did go to miniclip.com last time i was on and looked around there like you said to do, i have a few of them i'd say to try.)

Put Runescape on there. It's an online Multiplayer RPG and I have an account on it.

son of a gun... iwas gonna add that now... wow i aslso found a 3d ttetris

TESM likes the games so now i guess its up to bdx..

Cool! Me want 3D Tetris!

a 3d tetris? sounds interesting, but runescape, i had an account for that game but i dunno if it still works. even if it does work i cant remember my username and password.

or you could always ask someone if they would make an avartar for you.

im not sure if i can get rune scape or not because there was no option on that site to download... however i will keep trying..

Meh, Runescape.. -.- I don't like it. But putting it on here might get more attention.

Like Cynical Desgins?

who ? :unsure: i havent heard of them but yeah it could be worth a shot if you really want a custom one but done wanna make it yourself.

yeah but would you want this place turned into a haven for the runescape people when they probably have their own forum? i say get other stuff, aside from runescape and besides if people wanna play runescape so bad, they'll just go direct to the runescape site anyway, wouldnt they?