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| Thanks again for all the comments so far. To summarise everything that's been said the main points appear to be: - Get some new members.
- Encourage existing members to play more together through..
- more effective communication (MSN Messenger, IRC, Xbox Live Messenger through console or website, plus the website itself)
- organised games
- tournaments both internally and against other sites or external competitions
- Consolidate the forums, so that we don't have dead and unused forums - although possibly add a forum for the growing number of Xbox Live Arcade games and other Marketplace content?
I think that some of the other things mentioned will happen as a natural progression from attaining more active members, not that that's the only answer of course, we need to be doing things to make the site more appealing and encourage members to be more active. I know arranging a few events has been tried in the past but they nenver really worked so we gave up, I think maybe if we tried again but stuck at it then hopefully gradually people will drift back and get back in the habit of playing together again. The first step in this as I see it is to try and start arranging some games together. We've got the game of CoD on Friday and Fridays always used to be our main night, so maybe we should try and get something going every Friday if possible. Plus if you know you're gonna be on Live a certain night why not post and see if you can get a game going. Maybe we could have a go at arranging some tournaments too, nothing too heavy at first, maybe a knockout for one of the 1v1 games or a one off night playing one game with an eventual winner crowned. Anyone up for organising something please let me know. This is purely my own opinion of course and should not be seen as anything definite. feel free to discuss further. I'm gonna start a couple of new threads on specific things mentioned, the website and a good conduct guide so post your thoughts there too please once they're up.
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| I've just posted a thread on the XBox suggestion board about changes they could make to Live to make the whole invites issue much better. if you agree, please post on the thread:
http://forums.xbox.com/5114016/ShowPost.aspx
You all have an account as Live players, so no excuses  .
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| | unfortunately the world cup is eating up most of my time at the moment, as i'm sure it is affecting you guys a s well. summer is a notoriously bad time for us, it allways has been, a dearth of games, little extra content (altho' COD2 maps arrive this week) and the arcade section is stagnant, despite the promise of poker and pacman. i think we peaked with the LAN party, and i've said this before and others have too, we are getting older, our leisure time is divided up in so many small chunks that devoting time to Live is becoming harder. most of us have family/worktime commitments (lucky b@stards who dont!). if we could harness the energy behind the LAN and get some sort of meeting going again (not neccesarily on the scale of the LAN) then i think we might be heading in the right direction, if only to just familiarise ourselves again. this probably is'nt a forward thinking post, but its just my humble opinion...
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| | I think the xbox and xbox360 split should be consolidated. one news forum one reviews forums etc
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| Yer probably a good idea, a revised list of forums maybe to look something like this? Xbox & 360
News
Reviews Console Chat
Xbox 360 Console
Xbox 360 Games
Xbox Live
Xbox Console & Games
Other Consoles Community
New Members Area
General Chat
Tournament Chat
Feedback & Ideas
Test Postings & Pimping PC Forums
General PC Chat
PC Games Chat I've got rid of the Xbox News & Xbox Reviews, combined Xbox Console and Games into one and got rid of PC News which can go in PC General chat and PC Technical which can be included in General PC Chat. Hopefully the as of yet unused Tournaments forum will soon start to get some use. Just a question as to whether or not to include a seperate forum for XLA & marketplace, on thinking about it maybe we can do without for the time being and look at it again when things pick up a bit.
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| I must admit, I was thinking something a bit more drastic. I don't see the need for seperate 360 and original XBox forums, most of us have both machines or at least backwards compatibility.
Plus I think game discussion and reviews should be combined as there is lots of crossover. I also think if you combined the Live forum with tournaments, all the places to meet people will be in one place.
My thoughts:
Console Chat
Xbox & 360 News
Xbox & 360 Discussion & Reviews
Xbox Live & Tournaments
Other Consoles
Community
New Members Area
General Chat
Feedback & Ideas
Test Postings & Pimping
PC Forums
General PC Chat
PC Games Chat
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| That looks good Brats,
perhaps have
Xbox Live, XBLA & Tournaments
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| I think some middle ground between what you Chas and Brats have just done would be perfect for the time being.
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| Yeah I can see that top section would be redundant really, although personally I think that may be a bit too drastic having hardware and games discussion all mixed in together. My only other concern would be the as yet unused Tournaments forum. That's one forum where I think keeping the topic specific at the expense of activity is a good thing so that any activie threads would primarliy be connected with any current tournaments or tournaments in planning that won't get lost amongst any other discussion and not need to end up pinning a load of threads which would kind of defeat the purpose and look messy as well. Again purely my own opinion, feel free to discuss. But going on what I've just said I would suggest the following: Console Chat Xbox & 360 News
Xbox & 360 Console
Xbox & 360 Games
Xbox Live & XLA
Other Consoles Community
New Members Area
General Chat
Tournament Chat
Feedback & Ideas
Test Postings & Pimping PC Forums
General PC Chat
PC Games Chat
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| Just to add, the reason why I thought it would be good to merge hardware and software is because the hardware forum is fairly inactive with only three active threads in the last month and only six in the last two months. It's you call on this one though, so keep it and keep an eye on it  .Or....just to throw another spanner in the works, most of the posts in the hardware forum are queries. How do I connect my 360 to a HDTV or how do I go online, etc. What do you think about changing the forum to an 'Ask the Forum' forum, where anyone can ask queries about the 360? It could be questions like hardware queries or how to get a certain achievement or is X title from Japan multi-region, etc. Good point about the tournaments forum and I agree with you on this. What do you think about its position though? It looks a bit lost in the middle of the community section. As it's about games, would it be better in the console section? It seems strange to have tournaments in one section and game arrangements in another, as they're both about community and games. Or alternatively move it to the top of community area where it is most prominant.
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