A Few Suggestions
Posted: 07 Jul 2014, 15:06
I don't know from where to begin with so i'll do my best with trying to explain what i think would be nice for Smolderforge to happen in the future and it might consist of a lot of criticism but i don't want anyone from the Smolderforge staff or any player to take it personally.
So let's begin...
Cross-faction talking
I've been playing on Smolderforge since late 2010 ,early 2011 and one thing that has made a huge impression on me was the community. The way people spoke to each other,how they acted towards different players made me really disappointed most of the time. I think the first reason for the bad community of Smolderforge is the cross-faction talking. I am 90% sure that if players from different factions were not able to talk to each other almost all of the pointless argues we see every day could have been and could be avoided. It really disappoints me how for all of the years that i've been playing here ,most part of the players that play here -whether now or old ones , haven't changed at all . It's as if almost everyone that starts playing here get's drained down into becoming more and more like the rest of the players and that is mainly due to the fact that cross-faction communation is allowed. Because just a simple swear such as '' alliance noob '' or ''horde noob'' can trigger that feeling where you - the player become the same as the person that offended you and the cycle goes on and on. And i think it's something that should be taken care of and viewed quite seriously from Henhouse and the rest of the team. Another thing a lot of players on Smolderforge should do is stop acting as if they're some super stars in the server. Imagine a new player who just starts playing here and the first thing they get to experience is the ''best of all'' Smolderforge players and the constant rage and argues between them which leads to my 2nd argument of why cross-faction talking should be removed. The players. Most players that play on Smolderforge are under the age of 20 , that includes me and many of you . And although age is not a factor of how well you behave i think it plays a major role. Not to mention that some players here don't even know English well enough to communicate well with other players. So what happens exactly ? They know a few words and for example you tell them '' noob '' . And from then on they say the same to someone else and this goes on and on and on. And yes,there's an ignore button that works wonderfully . But when you hear such conversations all around you ,mainly from players from different factions who want to prove they're better ,you slowly join them and become the same type of a person (at least in the game ) or you get disgusted and you don't enjoy playing at all . I got carried away,but i'm sure plenty of you get the idea.
Forums
Okey,let's admit it. The design and style of the Forums is old. It represents the original World Of Warcraft website was it was back during The Burning Crusade ,but it's pointless now. Smolderforge is one of the last remaining servers to use this kind of design /template for it's Forums. It has to be changed . It is confusing for new players. The scale of the profile pictures is 64x64 which is damn small. 1/3 of the posts in these forums are just a waste of time which for a new player joining the forums can make a really really bad impression. That's a little bit how it was in the original World Of Warcraft forums too ,but this isn't Blizzard's WoW. This is supposed to be Smolderforge - where it's fun to pvp and to pve . Where people play together and have fun . With many cool features ,with helpful GMs and a friendly community. And how will that ever happen if the community remains the way it is - which is affecting the forums too and sometimes even the behavior of Smolderforge staff. How many times have you pointlessly argued about something on the Forums Henhouse ? Not just you,any GM , i am asking you , how many times have you wasted your time writing a long message to reply to a bunch of trolls . And how would any of you feel if you join the Forums community and all you read every day is this kind of shit . Yeah...excuse for using such words ,but it is just a bunch of crap. Here's examples :
http://www.smolderforge.com/forums/view ... =12&t=8986
http://www.smolderforge.com/forums/view ... =12&t=8987
http://www.smolderforge.com/forums/view ... =12&t=8985
http://www.smolderforge.com/forums/view ... =12&t=8916
http://www.smolderforge.com/forums/view ... =12&t=8969
http://www.smolderforge.com/forums/view ... =12&t=8888
I'm not going to look for more ,but i'm sure you all know and have seen such Forum topics that are just useless. And that's not Smolderforge's problem ,that's how the community is. But there is something else. It is Smolderforge's problem that their actually allowing such useless argues or wantings to continue. You guys , Henhouse , the GMs and everyone on the Smolderforge team. You are in charge here. Why do you waste your time explaining the same things over and over again. You are the law. You're not some teachers or mothers or babysitters that have to give everyone on the server attention , you should be more formal ,more neutral and distant from players. So they can learn where to post things ,how to name them and most of all how to act towards you and towards each other. Because the more attention you give them ,the more they'll continue being this way. How many times have you been offended by a player just because you replied to their post ? And then you waste your time even more by writing more and all you get is the same shitty answers every time. And all of these things ,all of this which you guys are allowing along with the fact that all players can trash talk each other all they want since cross-faction talking is enabled leads to how the players are being today and how they have been for as long as i've been here (and even before that ) . Something needs to change Henhouse and you know it.
Website
Okey so ...first of all ... why the hell is there are a giant Armory sign in front of the main website page ? It's like it's saying '' Armory '' instead of giving you that feeling that you're entering the Smolderforge website. Why isn't there any information with what Smolderforge has to offer ? Why does the damn news feed / news posts look like a f*cking tumblr website allowing you to '' see older posts '' . And why are the server specs along with more information than just the server being online not given ? Dude,imagine i just enter the website . I know a few english words and all i see is '' Armory '' and some damn posts of Henhouse . Why are the '' Main '' Menus so small ? They should be bigger,they should be placed somewhere everyone can see them. I mean , look at those little menus . And why is donating the second menu option after '' Home '' . And why is there even a '' Home '' button on the damn homepage ? Why is '' Membership '' or '' Create Account '' just put in the left side of the website ? '' Create Account , Client Download , How to Connect , Vote , Donate , Forums and lastly About us. That's all the options you need to have as menu buttons. And they need to big ,to be clear ,to be placed somewhere everyone can see them. Another question. Why isn't there a god damn slide show or for example some kind of advertising / show off of the movies /videos created by some players here. I mean,just look at all the amazing sh*t you guys can do with the website . Not only will it get many players but it will look damn awesome. Smolderforge can offer so much more and yet i feel like we're stuck in some cycle of hell that repeats itself every month , every year. Heck you can add a '' Features '' menu option showing all of the amazing and unqiue things about Smolderforge. You can make a slide show in the middle top of the webpage that says : Instant 70 , unique features , amazing Staff and community , lots of fun ... etc . Something like that. And get rid of that Armory sign . The armory is amazing ,congratulations on that Henhouse and congratulations to everyone else that worked on it . And you can still '' show it off '' ,but not in the f*cking middle of your awesome server. I really got carried away with all of these and i wrote so much more than i should have for which i hope you all excuse me if you happen to read this .
Donation Dragon
Remove it. It's big,it's annoying. It allows you to slow fall anywhere you want. This can be abused in battlegrounds , in open pvp areas or anywhere else. If someone wants to slow fall they can get a mage or a priest or whatever and do it all the want. These dragons just take too much space literally and you can abuse things with them very easily.
Poison Duration
Don't know what happened to this one or why it got canceled. But would love to see it being at least 2 hours long instead of one ,cause it's really annoying sometimes to have to apply your poison every 45-50 minutes because you know the rest of the remaining time you'll be fighting and in combat.
Visual Enchanting
This one already got suggested and i also agree. That would be amazing. Would be nice to have some gnome mage with some runes around him or an anvil with a purple sword in front of him that changes the visual style of your weapon enchants or removes it.
A little bit of grammar and word mistakes ,but i got really carried away.
More to come soon...
So let's begin...
Cross-faction talking
I've been playing on Smolderforge since late 2010 ,early 2011 and one thing that has made a huge impression on me was the community. The way people spoke to each other,how they acted towards different players made me really disappointed most of the time. I think the first reason for the bad community of Smolderforge is the cross-faction talking. I am 90% sure that if players from different factions were not able to talk to each other almost all of the pointless argues we see every day could have been and could be avoided. It really disappoints me how for all of the years that i've been playing here ,most part of the players that play here -whether now or old ones , haven't changed at all . It's as if almost everyone that starts playing here get's drained down into becoming more and more like the rest of the players and that is mainly due to the fact that cross-faction communation is allowed. Because just a simple swear such as '' alliance noob '' or ''horde noob'' can trigger that feeling where you - the player become the same as the person that offended you and the cycle goes on and on. And i think it's something that should be taken care of and viewed quite seriously from Henhouse and the rest of the team. Another thing a lot of players on Smolderforge should do is stop acting as if they're some super stars in the server. Imagine a new player who just starts playing here and the first thing they get to experience is the ''best of all'' Smolderforge players and the constant rage and argues between them which leads to my 2nd argument of why cross-faction talking should be removed. The players. Most players that play on Smolderforge are under the age of 20 , that includes me and many of you . And although age is not a factor of how well you behave i think it plays a major role. Not to mention that some players here don't even know English well enough to communicate well with other players. So what happens exactly ? They know a few words and for example you tell them '' noob '' . And from then on they say the same to someone else and this goes on and on and on. And yes,there's an ignore button that works wonderfully . But when you hear such conversations all around you ,mainly from players from different factions who want to prove they're better ,you slowly join them and become the same type of a person (at least in the game ) or you get disgusted and you don't enjoy playing at all . I got carried away,but i'm sure plenty of you get the idea.
Forums
Okey,let's admit it. The design and style of the Forums is old. It represents the original World Of Warcraft website was it was back during The Burning Crusade ,but it's pointless now. Smolderforge is one of the last remaining servers to use this kind of design /template for it's Forums. It has to be changed . It is confusing for new players. The scale of the profile pictures is 64x64 which is damn small. 1/3 of the posts in these forums are just a waste of time which for a new player joining the forums can make a really really bad impression. That's a little bit how it was in the original World Of Warcraft forums too ,but this isn't Blizzard's WoW. This is supposed to be Smolderforge - where it's fun to pvp and to pve . Where people play together and have fun . With many cool features ,with helpful GMs and a friendly community. And how will that ever happen if the community remains the way it is - which is affecting the forums too and sometimes even the behavior of Smolderforge staff. How many times have you pointlessly argued about something on the Forums Henhouse ? Not just you,any GM , i am asking you , how many times have you wasted your time writing a long message to reply to a bunch of trolls . And how would any of you feel if you join the Forums community and all you read every day is this kind of shit . Yeah...excuse for using such words ,but it is just a bunch of crap. Here's examples :
http://www.smolderforge.com/forums/view ... =12&t=8986
http://www.smolderforge.com/forums/view ... =12&t=8987
http://www.smolderforge.com/forums/view ... =12&t=8985
http://www.smolderforge.com/forums/view ... =12&t=8916
http://www.smolderforge.com/forums/view ... =12&t=8969
http://www.smolderforge.com/forums/view ... =12&t=8888
I'm not going to look for more ,but i'm sure you all know and have seen such Forum topics that are just useless. And that's not Smolderforge's problem ,that's how the community is. But there is something else. It is Smolderforge's problem that their actually allowing such useless argues or wantings to continue. You guys , Henhouse , the GMs and everyone on the Smolderforge team. You are in charge here. Why do you waste your time explaining the same things over and over again. You are the law. You're not some teachers or mothers or babysitters that have to give everyone on the server attention , you should be more formal ,more neutral and distant from players. So they can learn where to post things ,how to name them and most of all how to act towards you and towards each other. Because the more attention you give them ,the more they'll continue being this way. How many times have you been offended by a player just because you replied to their post ? And then you waste your time even more by writing more and all you get is the same shitty answers every time. And all of these things ,all of this which you guys are allowing along with the fact that all players can trash talk each other all they want since cross-faction talking is enabled leads to how the players are being today and how they have been for as long as i've been here (and even before that ) . Something needs to change Henhouse and you know it.
Website
Okey so ...first of all ... why the hell is there are a giant Armory sign in front of the main website page ? It's like it's saying '' Armory '' instead of giving you that feeling that you're entering the Smolderforge website. Why isn't there any information with what Smolderforge has to offer ? Why does the damn news feed / news posts look like a f*cking tumblr website allowing you to '' see older posts '' . And why are the server specs along with more information than just the server being online not given ? Dude,imagine i just enter the website . I know a few english words and all i see is '' Armory '' and some damn posts of Henhouse . Why are the '' Main '' Menus so small ? They should be bigger,they should be placed somewhere everyone can see them. I mean , look at those little menus . And why is donating the second menu option after '' Home '' . And why is there even a '' Home '' button on the damn homepage ? Why is '' Membership '' or '' Create Account '' just put in the left side of the website ? '' Create Account , Client Download , How to Connect , Vote , Donate , Forums and lastly About us. That's all the options you need to have as menu buttons. And they need to big ,to be clear ,to be placed somewhere everyone can see them. Another question. Why isn't there a god damn slide show or for example some kind of advertising / show off of the movies /videos created by some players here. I mean,just look at all the amazing sh*t you guys can do with the website . Not only will it get many players but it will look damn awesome. Smolderforge can offer so much more and yet i feel like we're stuck in some cycle of hell that repeats itself every month , every year. Heck you can add a '' Features '' menu option showing all of the amazing and unqiue things about Smolderforge. You can make a slide show in the middle top of the webpage that says : Instant 70 , unique features , amazing Staff and community , lots of fun ... etc . Something like that. And get rid of that Armory sign . The armory is amazing ,congratulations on that Henhouse and congratulations to everyone else that worked on it . And you can still '' show it off '' ,but not in the f*cking middle of your awesome server. I really got carried away with all of these and i wrote so much more than i should have for which i hope you all excuse me if you happen to read this .
Donation Dragon
Remove it. It's big,it's annoying. It allows you to slow fall anywhere you want. This can be abused in battlegrounds , in open pvp areas or anywhere else. If someone wants to slow fall they can get a mage or a priest or whatever and do it all the want. These dragons just take too much space literally and you can abuse things with them very easily.
Poison Duration
Don't know what happened to this one or why it got canceled. But would love to see it being at least 2 hours long instead of one ,cause it's really annoying sometimes to have to apply your poison every 45-50 minutes because you know the rest of the remaining time you'll be fighting and in combat.
Visual Enchanting
This one already got suggested and i also agree. That would be amazing. Would be nice to have some gnome mage with some runes around him or an anvil with a purple sword in front of him that changes the visual style of your weapon enchants or removes it.
A little bit of grammar and word mistakes ,but i got really carried away.
More to come soon...