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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Unknown Target on December 18, 2001, 01:46:00 pm

Title: Campaign Watch
Post by: Unknown Target on December 18, 2001, 01:46:00 pm
Someone needs to give the guys at Campaign Watch a boot in their unmentionables!  (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/biggrin.gif)
Anyways, I'm just saying that they REALLY need to update the site, because a lot of new campaigns have been announced.
Title: Campaign Watch
Post by: Fineus on December 18, 2001, 02:00:00 pm
Hmm...I guess they do. We could do something on campaigns/mods... Don't want to copy VW though - I mean they did get that kinda done first....
Title: Campaign Watch
Post by: Mad Bomber on December 18, 2001, 02:14:00 pm
I don't think it matters. Campaign Watch hasn't been updated since April anyway, since Remora has been AWOL or something, and Dynamo has been working on BWO I think.

So, an HLP CWatch would be a good idea, especially if updated fairly often.  (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/smile.gif)
Title: Campaign Watch
Post by: Fineus on December 18, 2001, 02:46:00 pm
Hmm, I'll throw it to the "floor"...


What do you all think? Good idea? Cheap rip off? Your the community - we just work here  (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/smile.gif)
Title: Campaign Watch
Post by: Alikchi on December 18, 2001, 02:48:00 pm
Good idea - As long as it isn't just a bunch of links to threads and stuff. I can do that on my own - it needs interviews, exclusives, etc.
Title: Campaign Watch
Post by: Ryx on December 18, 2001, 02:53:00 pm
Maybe some sort .plan feature.
Title: Campaign Watch
Post by: Mad Bomber on December 18, 2001, 04:13:00 pm
Perhaps an automated script is in order. People would submit their entries, an HLP staffer would look them over, and they would be added to the list  (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/smile.gif)

The staffer-looking-it-over-thingy is there to prevent spammers from clogging the list with nonexistant campaigns.
Title: Campaign Watch
Post by: CODEDOG ND on December 18, 2001, 04:20:00 pm
Sounds good to me...and while we are on the subject of campaigns.  Everybody here MUST play Pandora's Box over in the VW's campaign files.  Ice Heart did a great job on it and I love it.
Title: Campaign Watch
Post by: Fineus on December 18, 2001, 04:28:00 pm
Well I had this thought:

We get a scipt running where the webmaster/creator of a campaign could register with us and would get a password to submit stuff. Improper use of it would result in that users access being terminated and the information he posted removed. That takes care of your spamming problem whilst removing the majority of the work for us once the systems running.

Links, news, general information, maybe some images and a download link could all be filled out to create a neat little overview of each campaign along with up to date news and so on.
Title: Campaign Watch
Post by: LAW ENFORCER on December 18, 2001, 05:00:00 pm
does 'campaign' inculed 'MOD' and 'TC'?
Title: Campaign Watch
Post by: Fineus on December 18, 2001, 05:16:00 pm
The larger ones maybe...

But I want to see what people think of this first  (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/smile.gif)
Title: Campaign Watch
Post by: LAW ENFORCER on December 18, 2001, 05:23:00 pm
I say yeah man! Woohoo! and other such things...
Title: Campaign Watch
Post by: Styxx on December 18, 2001, 07:08:00 pm
I like the idea. CWatch is dead anyway, so if the VW guys don't have anything against it, it would actually relieve them from some work...
Title: Campaign Watch
Post by: Red5 on December 19, 2001, 01:17:00 am
hhe so is FReespacee FPS, they need to kick their buts in gear and fix it
Title: Campaign Watch
Post by: Fineus on December 19, 2001, 02:03:00 am
C'mon, To be fair to them theres a finite amount of good people working on several large and ambitious projects. They've done a great job on TBP so far and are still keeping everything else ticking over. That said - they could update stuff more often IMO - they've got the content, they just need the time.
Title: Campaign Watch
Post by: Setekh on December 19, 2001, 04:41:00 am
To CWatch's credit, they've done some really good work up until now, and since the place is mostly run by one person only (Dynamo), it would be fairly easy for him to get caught up in RL junk, and hence CWatch would effectively go into comatose.

Uhhh, I'll wait till Ice turns up.  (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/smile.gif)
Title: Campaign Watch
Post by: IceFire on December 19, 2001, 09:02:00 pm
TADA!!

Right.  Anyways, CWatch is pretty much going to be scrapped I think...but we're doing some work on FSW at this point and covering campaigns may just become a standard function of FSW rather than a out and out semi-Watch Network site.

The kicker is that I'm way too busy and so is everyone else.  We may need to get a new updater for FSW.
Title: Campaign Watch
Post by: Fineus on December 20, 2001, 02:21:00 am
Cool, well good luck getting things up to speed over there  (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/smile.gif)
Title: Campaign Watch
Post by: Setekh on December 20, 2001, 03:48:00 am
So, no HLP Campaign section then..?
Title: Campaign Watch
Post by: Sandwich on December 20, 2001, 06:31:00 am
What would be cool would be to have a section where people can rate and review campaigns they've played themselves. Sorta like what www.Download.com ("http://www.Download.com")  has for rating the files it carries.

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Title: Campaign Watch
Post by: Unknown Target on December 20, 2001, 08:46:00 am
I agree, let's do this thing!
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Title: Campaign Watch
Post by: Fineus on December 20, 2001, 10:34:00 am
Hmm...We could...

Do people still want this?
Title: Campaign Watch
Post by: Unknown Target on December 20, 2001, 10:36:00 am
Yes yes plllllleeeeaaaaassssseeee????? (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/biggrin.gif)
Well, anyhow, it'll be a good boost for the community to have a new campaign watch system (i.e. no more newbies asking about such and such campaign)
Title: Campaign Watch
Post by: CP5670 on December 20, 2001, 12:01:00 pm
Sounds like a good idea to me... (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/smile.gif)
Title: Campaign Watch
Post by: Fineus on December 21, 2001, 02:26:00 am
Hmm...We'll talk about it on the staff forum  (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/smile.gif)