STEAM GAMERS COMMUNITY GAME DIVISIONS
Hi everybody,
In the recent couple of weeks, there have been several threads about servers with low population and threads with no decent changes or amount of input from inside the community that could affect our population within the community.
There have been so many people who tried putting this off as “beginning of the year”, and it will be probably the same story in December when the holidays are coming up.. But that’s not going to help us out does it?
We are a standalone (not really, thanks to Channelfuse) community that is supported by the people (supporters) and right invoice and leadership of Spartan who is supported by our Board of Directors (Caution, MPQC and Nishok).
We can all agree that they are online most of the times, those guys are pretty damn active considering that we all have private lives and we just don’t have the free time or energy sometimes to turn on the computer at the end of the day and read the same bullshit on the forum or cb every night.
But here is when change jumps in.
You can pull this off as another bad idea that is copied right off the big ass communities like eGO but it is currently what we need. Crazy Swede really stood up a couple of weeks ago and said “Guys, I have thought of some changes for Zombie Escape, and I think it’s the right way to do”.
We all trusted him and as the moment I’m writing this, the Zombie Riot server (74.91.116.97:27015 btw) is almost full But also, the Zombie Escape server is empty.
My idea isn’t great, it’s more of a last resort in the pile of used ideas.. But it’s the right time to do since everybody is awake and concentrated on doing this right now.
We make Divisions. Simple.
We need people with the same interests that come together on weekly meetings, and divide ourselves within the community based on a structure that is plain simple and really communicative at the same time.
So what is this sudden idea? What is so new about it?
Well, we have so many talented people in our community while we don’t even know it most of the times. Given the amount of time we spend together on our forum we must know something about eachother.
I’m not throwing out fake pie charts and diagrams to prove my right here, but it’s something we can try.
Listen me out here on a last note, I’ll give an example of the changes that could be done here:
THE FORUM AS OUR COMBINED BRAINTANK
We all know that there are several threads that has an idea in it and it gets wrecked or approved.. Who can blame the people that aren’t open minded on change. We aren’t all decent democrats amirite? #governmentshutdown2013
As to change this type of mixed opinions by people who have absolutely no knowledge or sometimes no decent invoice to give on the matter, we should make it more like the admin complaints. Make the suggestion subforum of each division invisible to everybody but the people who are selected to work on the server.
We can’t start this idea with a couple of divisions, we have to test these matters with small baby steps at a time.
I would suggest by starting to make these subforums and we shall see what the outcome gives. We are experts at what we do actually, not only the higher-ups have managed to keep up this community for a while now, we have supported it my giving it funds and ideas to improve ourselves.. But sometimes it’s not enough.
So what I would suggest as the BETA Divisions:
Counter Strike Source:
- Zombie Escape / Riot
- Surf / Deathrun / Trikz
- Minigames / Jail Break
Garry’s Mod:
- Trouble in Terrorist Town
Minecraft:
- Minecraft servers
With the divisions there would become more clear views on the matters of ideas and such. So start off with the changes in the forums (invisible from the people who don’t have anything to do with it ofcourse, as long it is only used for the good of the community, not the next offtopic
We would also need a change in leadership as it is. With this I mean that each BD would have a division under his hand (Spartan not included). While doing this, we would divide all the AO’s in a division, taking SA’s in the team who would like to help out. On the last part of the BETA testing, regular users could be included too, but it would be wise to leave it to small teams of SA+ to bring out the best from the community to the people.
Make the AO's divide themselves, but try to keep it balanced. CE's are left out of the plan since they can handle the complaints and such.
I hope this can solve a few minor flaws in our current system. Like when you add a few SA's to the team who really want to make this work, they would actually be motivated to go on their server of the division they entered and be more active, or more a group of admins that is balanced on all the servers, instead of JB or MG.
While we're at it, we can make it a mini-competition between the divisions and give them a chance to do an event each month (let's make it a saturday for example). Make it a ONE DAY LONG event, with specials and really interesting stuff to make people come to their server.
They have a month to think about something, and we can see what specific group of higherups is worth their title.
Peace out.
And please, be sober and gentle when you respond, my fingers hurt
