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Ramuh community site, silly or good idea? Input needed.
It's a bit of time that an idea is roaming in my mind...
Unfortunately (or fortunately for some reasons) Final Fantasy XI is divided in lots of servers, and this makes a little difficult to create socially active communities using the support of general sites (after all you will never play with 28/29th of the players that play FFXI and come to theese sites... actually this is the bigger regret i have about this game..)
From my UOL experience i've learned that player created initiatives and events help adding a whole new dimension to the game, and new experiences beyond the usual exping routine.
Not to mention the fact that they help socializing with people that otherwise you would never meet around the vast world of Vana'diel.
Are they fun? My personal answer is: Yes.
Army sized hunts, organized regional conquest, beauty contests, fishing contests, synthetizing giveaways, fireworks festivals, social meetings, screenshots contests and archieves... there are no limits to what can be organized with a good support...
Where can we find such a support? Easy: on a server site.
What would be a server site? A site dedicated only to Ramuh (The only NA language one i found is for the Alexander server), in wich every player organized event can be posted in an organic and orderly fashon, giving it the right spotlights to grant the necessary partecipation.
A place in wich we can post our favourite screenshots and look at the ones our friends post... How many times you visited a FFXI site and looked at the pictures... and the only flaw in this was that you didn't know anything about the people you saw? How many times you wanted to show everyone your victories, but you knew that posting the pictures on a normal site, the most part of people that would see theese pictures wouldn't even know who you are?
With this new site we would be able to post pictures and look at the ones each one of us would post... and when we meet in the game we could say: "Hey! I know you, you're the one that beaten that big dragon and posted that neat picture!".
Again, the possibilities are infinite...
A beauty (and wits) contest between our lovely girls in Vana'diel? We could do that.
Filling the castle D'Oraguille's halls with a big dancing party? We could do that.
A fireworks festival on the boat from muhara to Selbina for someone's birthday? Nothing easier than that! A newspaper based on OUR server, with OUR events? YEAH! Wouldn't it be great?!
For instance i know that kaelenae is planning to organize Chocobo racing on our server, wouldn't it be nice to be able to properly spotlight it? Giving the winners the proper glory they deserve?
I would like so much, to wake up everyday, surf to a site and look at what events are scheduled for that day...
All of this, and much more can be done, but it's no small undertaking. I can do part of the job, but there's NO WAY i can do that alone. The most help we get on this the better it will come out.
Basically everyone can help, web designers, artists, writers, event organizers, moderators, news gatherers... and maybe even japanese translators (that would help to merge the japanese and NA communities, that as of now are a bit parted...) There would be a place for everyone willing to help...
The decision will be based on how much feedback i have on this and how many peopl,e are willing to help. I won't undertake this task alone, but i gladly will if people will be interested and helpful.
Let's add a new dimension to our server and a lot of fun to our gaming nights!
EDIT: I've already found a lot of people willing to contribute with art, articles and the like, but everyone will be welcome, expecially i still need an experienced web designer and i would really really like someone able to translate the text part to japanese.
Unfortunately (or fortunately for some reasons) Final Fantasy XI is divided in lots of servers, and this makes a little difficult to create socially active communities using the support of general sites (after all you will never play with 28/29th of the players that play FFXI and come to theese sites... actually this is the bigger regret i have about this game..)
From my UOL experience i've learned that player created initiatives and events help adding a whole new dimension to the game, and new experiences beyond the usual exping routine.
Not to mention the fact that they help socializing with people that otherwise you would never meet around the vast world of Vana'diel.
Are they fun? My personal answer is: Yes.
Army sized hunts, organized regional conquest, beauty contests, fishing contests, synthetizing giveaways, fireworks festivals, social meetings, screenshots contests and archieves... there are no limits to what can be organized with a good support...
Where can we find such a support? Easy: on a server site.
What would be a server site? A site dedicated only to Ramuh (The only NA language one i found is for the Alexander server), in wich every player organized event can be posted in an organic and orderly fashon, giving it the right spotlights to grant the necessary partecipation.
A place in wich we can post our favourite screenshots and look at the ones our friends post... How many times you visited a FFXI site and looked at the pictures... and the only flaw in this was that you didn't know anything about the people you saw? How many times you wanted to show everyone your victories, but you knew that posting the pictures on a normal site, the most part of people that would see theese pictures wouldn't even know who you are?
With this new site we would be able to post pictures and look at the ones each one of us would post... and when we meet in the game we could say: "Hey! I know you, you're the one that beaten that big dragon and posted that neat picture!".
Again, the possibilities are infinite...
A beauty (and wits) contest between our lovely girls in Vana'diel? We could do that.
Filling the castle D'Oraguille's halls with a big dancing party? We could do that.
A fireworks festival on the boat from muhara to Selbina for someone's birthday? Nothing easier than that! A newspaper based on OUR server, with OUR events? YEAH! Wouldn't it be great?!
For instance i know that kaelenae is planning to organize Chocobo racing on our server, wouldn't it be nice to be able to properly spotlight it? Giving the winners the proper glory they deserve?
I would like so much, to wake up everyday, surf to a site and look at what events are scheduled for that day...
All of this, and much more can be done, but it's no small undertaking. I can do part of the job, but there's NO WAY i can do that alone. The most help we get on this the better it will come out.
Basically everyone can help, web designers, artists, writers, event organizers, moderators, news gatherers... and maybe even japanese translators (that would help to merge the japanese and NA communities, that as of now are a bit parted...) There would be a place for everyone willing to help...
The decision will be based on how much feedback i have on this and how many peopl,e are willing to help. I won't undertake this task alone, but i gladly will if people will be interested and helpful.
Let's add a new dimension to our server and a lot of fun to our gaming nights!
EDIT: I've already found a lot of people willing to contribute with art, articles and the like, but everyone will be welcome, expecially i still need an experienced web designer and i would really really like someone able to translate the text part to japanese.
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