RPF Topics & Discussion Thread v.Temp - Now Discussing: Post-Move Players and Recruitment

Most games I think would have to have multiple prefixes to lable them properly.For reasons such as Fins said above, also this isn't that helpful. Prefixes would end up being like isle toppers at a video store with those that are many things put in the oddest places to those that actually made or play them. After all, even with non-starwars games, what would you lable SotS ? Personally, I don't even know what to properly lable it.

My two cents:

While yes, a "quick reference" is what we're after, that quick reference needs to be ACCURATE in order to be useful, and the problems with accurate genre tagging have been well documented in this thread. While I was in favor of genre tags earlier, I've come to the conclusion that the only way we're going to get accurate (and thereby useful) tags is to limit ourselves to "Star Wars" and "Non–Star Wars" (and I'm going to insist on the use of an en dash there instead of the grammatically incorrect hyphen; see here for why the en dash should be used). Anything else will only create confusion.

Well, I like the genre tag. Also I wonder if anyone will filter Sci-Fi and not look at Thriller. And yes, there is a point, that the title probably has a lot more info than the prefix. My "Games" seems to have been vetoed, but I think to avoid this, we might aim for more general tags.

Star Wars
Franchise
Original
Community
Social
Contest
Newbie-friendly

maybe? I mean we´ll have three games of ASotS soon and maybe four Mass effect games. But what would a "ASotS" and a "Mass Effect" prefix do for us, if all ASotS games are called Sins of the WubWub and all Mass Effect games are called MASS EFFECT: WubWub anyway? What would a Sci-Fi prefix do for us? What would games like ASotS be labelled anyway? Mystery? Thriller? Horror? Apocalyptic? Character drama? Drama? I think Sci-Fi would work, too. Or all of those when we can do multiple ones? The same problem would have raised for Ramza´s Summer Place and would be for the Dark Tides, I believe to a lesser extend. What would Excelsior be? Another tag Comics? If so, is TSG´s The Solid Flesh if it ever happens comic? Because it has an original hero in it, Fin´s Solid.

I am not opposed to the whole idea, I just see how it can turn out to be a bad thing. I must say, the arguments are slowly starting to turn me into the other direction.

Hm, I hadn´t thought it through. Newbie should go. When Contests get up, we should really think about having that. If it isn´t needed for anything else. Especially as I understood the "groups" wanna have contests too, at some point?

Community I actually thought might be things like Training games, adoption etc. too. And probably if a game rises to become a flagship one day . . . that might be the way to support it? I agree with a post somewhere on page one, still. We could need one. But that was just an idea. I just thought the word "community" is something I would click on, when I get here. You know? A place to start for people.

Two cents isn't very much, so you can bill me.

We could add a Nostalgia only button. Would make filtering easier for old users.

So, anyway . . . I´d say we wait if the merger is an April´s fool´s joke and if not . . . we think how to stop it. If that doesn´t help, let the TFN burn, we don´t need it anymore!!!!!!



Love April 1st.

When social order breaks down and everybody get´s infected, you´ll behind socks and try to get out of the RPF in time! But the time is now!

*spanish accent* VIVA LA REVOLUTION! VIVA! VIVA!

Exactly, Mr. Jello. That´s the idea . . . *coughs* No really.


Anyway, RPF. In the spirit of April´s fool I want all RPF stuff to be named RPF. with the option to blend out prefixes, maybe?

Agreed on all counts, including putting "newbie-friendly" directly into the thread title for now. If we can gain the ability to do multiple prefixes later, then it would work as a formal prefix (as could one that simply says "accepting new players"), but that won't work until then.

On the board that has passed and shall rise again like Wallace, I think the system of GM's putting whether it was newbie friendly or not was a good one. Instead of newbie for a tag we could make it be ALL PLAYERs, or some such dribble to protect the sensitive proclivities of the word sensitive whether they be poster or player. Personally I relished being called a noob while I felt it applied and actually had an argument once that I was still a noob while someone else said I wasn't.