Thoughts and ideas for qwdrama updates

all sounds good. if you are going to update goldrush, you should make sure that your bet odds are locked in at the time of your bet. so if you bet on a 10-1 underdog, your winnings are not washed out by some rich fuck who bets the same way after you and brings the odds down to 5-1. this would require in-the-ballpark initial seeds, but it rewards those who are "first to the racetrack"

Odds will be calculated using both the amount of bets and amount of cash put on each option.

I think hosting a big duelmania-like 1on1 tourney would be a pretty good idea. Lots of people have been asking about it ever since Ownage 1 ended ages ago. Tourneys always bring some refreshing activity:
There's games to bet on, games that people want to follow, teamspeak commentary, drama, something to argue/talk about, etc.

Also, from a player's perspective, I think it's pretty important to keep the scene attractive to the more 'oldschool' players. I mean it's obviously essential that QW is kept attractive to rookie players, so things like Ignition and all the other countless efforts are something that shouldn't come to a standstill, but all that might be worth nothing if for every new 'recruit' an oldschool player gets bored and stops playing QW.

phil's one-map-tournaments have worked out well so far and I'm fairly thrilled about the current activity in the (duel) scene despite it being summer holidays, but those tournaments that phil is organising should be complementing other ("normal") duel tournaments, not replacing them.

So... my vote goes to a big tb5 duel-tourney à la duelmania. Could call it "drama queen". :)

Do a quakeworld ladder and make it by region. Make demo uploading for every match mandatory. Have arcsin integrate the ladder into your site. :p

Totally agree with soma, we could use a big tb5 duel-tourney!
and ladders, to me, is a big no-no... I wouldn't sign up for such idea as fog's.

agreed on the article and soma and bps.

One thing i think qw lacks is still the stats. everyone loves them. but a website that combines stats from all servers doesnt exist, and i would like very much to see it. time to think of a solution on how to use the existing stats options in mvdsv/ktx, delivering them in ONE place. qwdrama can be that place. maybe even integrate the imported stats to goldrush...

oh and about the tb5 duel tournament... i've heard eb and racer will bring duelmania back really soon, so that is covered:)

well I agree, qw needs a tb5-1on1-tourney but! no racer no duelmania :/ someone just kick something until it shits out a dueltournament
and as far as qwdrama.com goes, I think the site is kickin'! with the lack of articles aside(though there's not much to write about now). But you guys could do some exciting games coverage, before and after.

is it possible to use the same userdatabase from the forum to wiki, goldrush and schedule?

What forum? qw.nu's? Integrating wiki, goldrush and other qwdrama sites is doable but qw.nu isn't part of our network. It might be possible technically but I don't think we want to do that anyway.

I mean integrating qwdrama network logins = possible & good suggestion
but integrating qwdrama and qw.nu = possible but very likely won't happen

I would be more open for this shared user database suggestion if QuakeWorld.nu wasn't based on PHPbb, which is very hacker-friendly.

It takes not more than 1 minute to get a user account for either of qwdrama/qw.nu so it isn't a big problem, we got other things to do that has a higher priority imo.

Whoever mentioned player stats is thinking like a genius. A good example of maybe what you would want on a players stats page would be this: http://www.iccup.com/iccprofile/193089/

Kind of like a forums page except have frag stats, maps played, tournament results etc. Would be pretty dope imo.

To get some more drama I suggest that some of the room to the right should be devoted to the, oooh yeah, _real_ drama! Such drama news we all want! E.g. "WHAT IS DRUIDZ AND WHERE DID THEY COME FROM?".

Maybe all the allready registered users to Goldrush should be able to post these kinds of drama. At least not anyone. But anyone should be able to register. We don't want too much fakenicks do we?

There should be a policy that it's not for FORUM-kinds of posts. It should only be NEWS. News about new clans exposed/formed, clan hoppers, fakenicks revealed (this could be fun), Hagges/jOns all time excuses, what Milton had for breakfast etc. etc. Of course they should be able to be answered to in a "comments"-area as the real news. This would really add drama to the scene! And also some exciting rumours!

Something like this:

http://web.telia.com/~u16311646/drama.jpg

Just a thought!

Eta: the "you tell us" box has basically the same idea except only we can see the entries that come through the form. I think it's better that way because if everyone is able to see the messages then it is nolonger a secret and therefore makes the story less interesting. Registeration might cut some crap out but last few months we have received like 1-2 messages, so it doesn't really make any difference. One of the messages of course coming from that retard Jimo, spamming his shit blog. Anyway, good discussion.

If you are going to change goldrush, could you then add a feature that would let other sites, like EQL, NQR and QW.nu easily add matches by providing an xml file or something. It's a pain to add every match manually.