Sticky consolidiation?

ybbor · Sep 26, 2005

currently we have a dozen stickies. we can't possibly need that many. here is a list:

Spoiler list :

any ideas on what to unsticky/merge?

my proposals:
unsticky welcome new team members- we can always bump it
put team absense registry into citizen list
put tech list and resource watch into through the looking glass (re-name?)

that would kill 4 threads leaving 8. which is still rpobably too many.

Black_Hole · Sep 26, 2005

I agree this forum is very hard to read...

General_W · Sep 26, 2005

I like those suggestions Also how about this

"Instructions to the president" could be combined with the "Save Info thread", with ministers just posting their orders after the save update.
This makes that thread a bit more cluttered but it if people want an un-adulterated view of the last few turns, they can look at the "State of the Empire" thread assuming the next president continues the habit of dual posting to keep his term all in one place.

Feel free to hate this idea (not sure how I feel about it myself) just trying to do my part to consolidate the stickys!

Black_Hole · Sep 26, 2005

Redo the save info thread and merge it with the instructions thread like General W said above, however put this in enormous font:
"For Officials and Turn Players Only! This is NOT a dicsucssion thread!"

It would be best to create a new thread....

peter grimes · Sep 26, 2005

Here are the ones I'd release to the winds
Doughnut Embassy
Save information
KISS embassy
Looking Glass
Welcome New Team Members
Absence Registry

I would leave
Instructions for President
Constitution
Pending Foreign Chat

I'm on the fence about Resource List and Tech List and Citizen List

Basically, I think threads we rarely post in, but use for reference frequently, should remain stickied. Those threads that get posts regularly will naturally float to the top. Example: No need to sticky Looking Glass. That thing gets updated EVERY turn. Same thing with save info.

Kentharu · Sep 26, 2005

from the diplomat view i think the embassys should stay pending foreign chat can go cause team KISS never really tells anyone when a meeting is going to take place, it just sorta happens
new team members and citizen list can be merged
save info can be merged with constitution and intructions for the press (put the constitution in a spoiler as well as the citizens list)
so thats 6 sticks (counting the to be TNT embassy of course)

Meleager · Sep 26, 2005

Have you seen Rik's post here?

Whomp said:
...
Moderator Action: Stuck. By the way; I can unstick as well - Rik

Keep:
Instructions for Presedent
Through Looking Glass
Team MIA consitution
Citizen List

unstick everything else.

fe3333au · Sep 27, 2005

Good Idea about House Keeping ...

I would ...

Create a stickied Game Mechanics Civilopedia type of thread ... it will primarily be a reference guide for the team (stickied because it will rarely be bumped) and a merging of the following ...
>resource watch
>tech list

Unsticky Looking Glass as Grimsey is right it is bumped with every turn since I summarise as well ...

The Citizen stuff should be merged and stickied ... perhaps have information for new members as well ie. a link to Gen_W's flow chart
>welsome new team members
>team absence registry
>citizen list

constitution should remain stickied ... and add Gen_W's flowchart

save info remain stickied as it is an archive of our history

instructions for the president stickied but I agree with adding a NOT DISCUSSION Thread somewhere ...

The embassies ... my idea was to have all relevant correspondence stored in these, not sure if it works so should they be stickied ? ... Don't Know

pending foreign chat meetings ... If meeting are to be formal and have AIM Whispers happening alongside the main negotiations ... this thread is neceassary for including all players who want to ... then it should remain stickied ...
* the comment about the recent KISS Chat not being advertised is that they are more diplomatic functions (cocktail parties) not really formal meetings if you like ... the Agreements all included the formal PM process and a structured meeting with sideline AIM ... so if this system of inclusion is to remain ... leave it stickied ... if not then we can Remove this thread altogether ...

classical_hero · Sep 27, 2005

Why do we need a separate team absence thread?

fe3333au · Sep 27, 2005

@C_H ... the absence thread was my idea ... felt that most people would just spend time in MIA as opposed to UN ... (still feel that this is the case) and also feel that it is more relevant to have it here then one forum level up ...

classical_hero · Sep 27, 2005

I have created a thread called "Team resource." I beleive this can help with this thread. So far I have put the Tech and resource list into it so that we can still view these threads but have only one thread that will give us infomation about the game and our teams. What other things could we put in ti to declutter the forum?

General_W · Sep 27, 2005

I like the way Classical Hero combined several threads into 1 by supplying the links.

Maybe we could have just these 4 threads
(linked threads as the first posts, and then the thread would continue as indicated)

Sticky: Hall of Citizens

Link: Welcome New Members
Link: Citizen List
Link: Absence Registry
Rest of Thread: Constitution

Sticky: Empire Management

Link: Instructions to the President
Link: Defense Department
Link: Domestic Department
Link: Foreign Department
Link: Next Few Turns
Rest of Thread: Save Info

Sticky: Foreign Department

Link: Looking Glass
Link: Doughnut Embassy
Link: Kiss Embassy
Link: TNT Embassy
Rest of Thread: Pending Foreign Chats

Sticky: Team Resources

Technology List
Resource List
Map Room
Rest of Thread: Reserved for future need

I'm not sure if this makes it easier or not but then we'd only have 4 Sticked threads! All the subthreads could be cut loose and would float to the top as they are popular but we'd never lose track of them, because we'd have easy access via the stickys.

With the links - A brief description of what's there and who is allowed to post there could easily be supplied with the link.
The rest of the thread could be used for commentary and questions as indicated in my list.

Thoughts?

Black_Hole · Sep 27, 2005

great idea, but all of those threads should be labeled non discussion threads...

ybbor · Sep 27, 2005

General_W said:
I like the way Classical Hero combined several threads into 1 by supplying the links.

Maybe we could have just these 4 threads
(linked threads as the first posts, and then the thread would continue as indicated)

Sticky: Hall of Citizens

Link: Welcome New Members
Link: Citizen List
Link: Absence Registry
Rest of Thread: Constitution

Sticky: Empire Management

Link: Instructions to the President
Link: Defense Department
Link: Domestic Department
Link: Foreign Department
Link: Next Few Turns
Rest of Thread: Save Info

Sticky: Foreign Department

Link: Looking Glass
Link: Doughnut Embassy
Link: Kiss Embassy
Link: TNT Embassy
Rest of Thread: Pending Foreign Chats

Sticky: Team Resources

Technology List
Resource List
Map Room
Rest of Thread: Reserved for future need

I'm not sure if this makes it easier or not but then we'd only have 4 Sticked threads! All the subthreads could be cut loose and would float to the top as they are popular but we'd never lose track of them, because we'd have easy access via the stickys.

With the links - A brief description of what's there and who is allowed to post there could easily be supplied with the link.
The rest of the thread could be used for commentary and questions as indicated in my list.

Thoughts?

great idea! If no one has any objections, i'll start doing that tommorow morning! - the ones in my power anyway, not the 3rd one

Kentharu · Sep 27, 2005

im good with that
another great idea by Mr. President!! :salute:

fe3333au · Sep 28, 2005

Do we have a great team or what?

Oh and add the Vault of Precious Things to the Foreign Linking Thread ... as it contains the signed Agreements and gifts from the other teams ...

classical_hero · Sep 28, 2005

Excellent Idea Mr President.

classical_hero · Sep 28, 2005

General_W said:
I like the way Classical Hero combined several threads into 1 by supplying the links.

Maybe we could have just these 4 threads
(linked threads as the first posts, and then the thread would continue as indicated)

Sticky: Hall of Citizens

Link: Welcome New Members
Link: Citizen List
Link: Absence Registry
Rest of Thread: Constitution

Sticky: Empire Management

Link: Instructions to the President
Link: Defense Department
Link: Domestic Department
Link: Foreign Department
Link: Next Few Turns
Rest of Thread: Save Info

Sticky: Foreign Department

Link: Looking Glass
Link: Doughnut Embassy
Link: Kiss Embassy
Link: TNT Embassy
Rest of Thread: Pending Foreign Chats

Sticky: Team Resources

Technology List
Resource List
Map Room
Rest of Thread: Reserved for future need

I'm not sure if this makes it easier or not but then we'd only have 4 Sticked threads! All the subthreads could be cut loose and would float to the top as they are popular but we'd never lose track of them, because we'd have easy access via the stickys.

With the links - A brief description of what's there and who is allowed to post there could easily be supplied with the link.
The rest of the thread could be used for commentary and questions as indicated in my list.

Thoughts?

With all the Ministry threads, we could have a link to the different term threads that have been around in our game.

ybbor · Sep 28, 2005

Done. Can someone else post the requests for stickies? I have to go to school.

classical_hero · Sep 28, 2005

ybbor said:
Done. Can someone else post the requests for stickies? I have to go to school.

I have put in the request.

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