[IMPORTANT] How to bring the hype? What do you want to see?

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(Jun 25, 2015, 09:28 AM)naitre Wrote:

(Jun 25, 2015, 06:34 AM)sandragon13 Wrote: I rather liked that somewhat-weekly current events thread that popped up a few weeks back.  Provided a nice concise way to get caught up if you've been away from the forums for a few days.  What are the chances of that making a return?

Also I'm pretty sure I'm the only one in this boat among the more frequent users on this site, but could self-produced or modified content, like Fakemon/Theorymon and/or the Other Metagames as seen on sites like Smogon be something we can discuss?  I propose this from a shameless direction of plugging my own fakedex, but I think this sort of discussion has value beyond just that.
   -sandragon13

Strengthening the Smogon presence here is something Rogue and I both strongly advocate for, as we are both Smogon players at heart and are more loyal to its metagame than VGC's, believe it or not. We've been playing in Smogon frontiers for a long time, and I've been following them since the Pokemon Online days. I'm primarily an OU/UU battler, but Rogue dabbles in everything. If there is a genuine interest for it, we'd be more than happy to bring the hype for Smogon here.

As far as self-produced content, I'd personally like to see more of it. I started a lore thread and it flopped, but the Pokestrange thread did really well and I found it to be fun and interesting. Justin too mentioned to me that he thought it was a cool thread, so I think there's a genuine interest for it.

The issue here is regular users vs "casual" users, so to speak. We have a strong population of regular, dedicated users like yourself, Anime, Eckley, GMX, Hojunhu, and the regular "#TeamForum" crew, and then we have tons of people who join but never leave the Trading forum. This isn't necessarily wrong or bad, just an observation. The goal would likely be to somehow capture the attention of these players and bring them to the rest of the forum.

Hojunhu came up with a really awesome and exciting idea that might be able to bring some users over, and I'm pretty stoked to get it going once I can get Justin on board with it. As always, though, I think the biggest influx would happen with Justin promoting the forum on his stream once he comes back.

I have a couple ideas to run by Rogue to see if I can convince him to help me get them rolling. I'd like to jump on the stream team too.

Somehow incorpertation other gameplay styles like smogon would be good, im not sure how easy it would be and what way you have to go to do something like this seeing as this is a majority VGC community (but not saying it wont work )

like i said with the self-production, it's just difficult to get support with something, like with sandragon he has an awesome idea with the fakemon but people are just to focused on regular game to play any attention to side stuff, and like you said with some regulars and the rest that come only a little with only intentions on trading/battling its kind of tough, im glad the weekly new got good support and im hoping i can use this to not only inform new people but also give them an idea of whats all happening

Rouge and Naitre, you guys are our link to communitating to justin, i dont wanna spam him on twitter with stuff link this when he has other things going on . Wish you luck in showing him our devotion for the forum :P