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| Hi guys, I've set this forum up because I think we need some new input and as you guys make the community, who better to ask? I'd love to hear all your ideas on how we can improve this community to make it more fun and lively for all. Cheers, Chas
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| hi m8 ,ive got a couple of ideas perhaps we can arrange some friendly torneys going between ourselves and maybe against some other forums ,and maybe enter a myxbox team in something like teamcompete and possible start looking for some new members to kickstart the community as we have a great core of people already just need to embelish this a bit further maybe
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| | Tournaments sound like a good idea, as does the thought of creating teams and entering them into competitions. Personally, I think we need some more gaming sessions together. As Chas pointed out one evening, Oblivion pretty much wiped out online play during the two months it was released. But now we have a cracking list that's sure to grow of games that we can all indulge in, such as G.R.A.W, Uno, Perfect Dark Zero and, hopefully soon, Streetfighter 2. My suggestion for this community would be to consider revamping the site so that it encapsulates a wider variety. Currently, it's just a forum, so why not try and broaden it into a fully-fledged website covering all aspects of the Xbox and the 360, targetted at the current audience? There's already a Microsoft recommendation to visit this site, so why not utilise that by grabbing people when they first click the link? Although there are many gaming websites out there, there are very little that cater for those of us who don't talk like teh_Ownerer from Pure Pwanage...
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| i would like to see some sort of leagues/tournaments..... (willing to help out in any way shape or form)
PGR3/MGP06/PES5( )/GRAW ..... and others .... plenty of scope imho..
Whatever did happen to the website side of things that was happing when we changed forums? (or is that better left unsaid?) 
Games: GoW/TWPGA08/GRAW2/Forza2/GH3/R6:V2/Halo3/FIFA08/PGR4/CoD4/GTA:IV
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| Mate you know my views, I still hark for the days when we still used irc, and was very easy to set up impromptu games as we knew we could muster a fair few at a moments notice. The problem overtime for us has been that lack of games arranged that people can look forward to, consequently people rely on their friends list to see what people are playing, and there just hasn't been that many of us online.
The ideal situation would be that everyone just logged into live if they were free, and then we could get something going, but its a bit of a chicken and egg scenario, as people don't usually come on unless they see people playing something they want to play. I'm as guilty of this as the next guy.
I guess if we started using the messaging through Live to just text everyone that you were thinking of setting something up that evening etc may have some effect.
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| leagues and tournaments sound good. Perhaps we can exploit the use of the private match feature in certain games so that only members of the forum could join them and post the date of these arranged matchs on a members only area of the site. This could possibly act as an incentive to get the mebership up as everyday I see a huge number of guests looking at the forum, but few join.
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| Thanks all for the input so far, keep it coming. Regarding the questions raised about having a website/the old site - i'll let you know the state of play with that soon, maybe in a seperate thread so as not to drag this one too off-topic. Cheers, Chas
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| C Dread (27/06/2006)
I still hark for the days when we still used irc, and was very easy to set up impromptu games as we knew we could muster a fair few at a moments notice.
That actually was a good idea. But after a while, it did start to show that nobody used it when it was pretty much just me and SK talking in the channel. I'd be willing to try and get that going again if people want to try that out again.
Haven't we tried the public games and tournaments which were on the Xbox.com calendar? Do you guys think it's worth trying that again? I didn't have my 360 at the time, so I don't really know how well that all went.
Though I still think the main issue is that we don't play against each other enough. It's been god knows how long since I've played on Live against anybody, let alone you guys.
Anyone remember those MSN Live alerts, anybody know what going on with them? Because I remember the mass invites by everybody and then they'd pop up on MSN, and that's when some people would pop on Live.
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| Nice thread Chas  .
I think when Live Anywhere arrives, it will be much easier. Then you'll be able to send messages to people who are using PCs, to their mobile phones and even the their work. You'll be able to see who is around on your friends list, not just who has their 360 switched on.
In the meantime, we need an alternative. That coudl be irc or it could be messenger or something else entirely, but I think we should all agree on one thing so we can arrange games. That way, when we go online, we'll know that there will be at least 3 other people happy to play games that night, rather than the current sitution where you switch the 360 on and it's pot luck.
I like the idea of using the 360 message system too, especially as you can now do it from your PC. If I fancy some online gamage tonight, I could send all you lot a text message so you'll know exactly when I'll be on. So you could join (or avoid) me as you please.
The other thing is, don't forget the 360 chat function. Although I am completely guilty of Oblivion sucking up my time, I did sometimes chat with other players whilst playing. This extends that community spirit that this site has so much potential for.
What about a kind of good conduct guide? I don't want to make things too formal, but I think we should all agree that if you're sent an invite and you can't make it/want to play solo then you should at least message the person who invited you.
Finally (phew) what does everyone think about the number of forums? I think there might be too many. Some of the forums go weeks without a post and I'm thinking this doesn't stimulate people to put further posts. What do you think about merging some of the forums together?
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| There are too many forums, but as to how to merge them hmm.... Perhaps there could be a general 'old skool' forum for xbox related stuff with most of the 360 forums remaining, oh and how about a seperate xbla forum or market place forum?
As to the other items, I always have a great evening playing when I hook up with the myxbox croud unfortunately they are rare for me because I just don't get a lot of time at the moment. If people 'bulk' messaged more often then it could be a good idea, perhaps a couple of people could set up a silver 'myxbox' account and send out friends requests so they could just message myxbox people rather than everyone on the list, or it may be able to be done using a weblink populating the to list on a message?
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