User:Licah Fox/notepad

1. User:Licah Fox/main site nav bars redesign
2. User:Licah Fox/home page modules
3. User:Licah Fox/book material

Best draws...

1. EaW clan - http://www.empireatwar.net/community/clans/index.htm, http://eaw.heavengames.com/clans/

Other draws...

1. SWG club - best advertised in-game; a few places possible to advertise- http://www.gamerdna.com/groups/recruitment/Star-Wars-Galaxies/Starsider/ http://www.swgalaxies.net/guilds/index.php3?server=Starsider%20(US%20East) - http://www.dmoz.org/Games/Video_Games/Action/Space_Combat/Star_Wars_Games/Star_Wars_Galaxies/Player_Associations/Starsider/ - but these seem old and unused. Guild is self-sufficient in-game.
2. RS ITOD immersive experience - but almost no one would go out looking for this; it's only after joining one realizes its power
3. Console/pc gaming? What can we do? The only real way to make this viable is to get a significant number of people playing with the (RS) tag and thus get our name out. We'll need some kind of lure for them - SWG uses in-game rewards. We don't have financial resources to offer rewards that would require money; our only immediate offer can be other members' skills. And we don't yet have that underlying structure.
4. Star Wars club type stuff - competitions, merits, courses, etc. - but these are things to keep people, not draw them.

(ABG does not want advertising.)

In conclusion:

The nature of the RS is such that we do not focus on anything for which people go out and look, generally, but rather an out-of-game experience centered on community and in-character roleplaying. Therefore, we need to focus on "hooking" people (which Beginner's Path does pretty well) and providing them with reasons to stay beyond whatever reason that brought them here.

Rough sketch of proposed trajectory of new members:

1. (CDT-2LT) Joins - is put on Beginner's Path - learns to navigate
2. (2LT-MAJ) First activity possibilities - earning points for courses, missions, competitions, communication is more than good enough
3. (CPT-CMDR) Responsibility asked - upper academy courses, assist in an executive office, squadron or wing CS, forums discussion input
4. (CMDR-COL) Fairly accustomed to responsibility - squadron/wing CS, well versed in history/activities of at least one unit, in charge of some aspect of executive work (e.g. tacops, one game of missions database, one area of competitions)
5. (COL-GEN) High responsibility - instrumental to the operation of a unit, executive office task, or equivalent, and has demonstrated at least good leadership and responsibility.
6. (GEN-FA) Club service - work has positively affected multiple units or areas of the RS over a period of time.

Calendar

• Fr 27 June - main site nav bars: css
• Sa 28 June - private messages fix & upgrade
• Su 29 June - begin working on book material (table of contents; begin research)
• Mo 30 June - book: get some ideas onto screen
• Tu 1 July - Remus explosion day - work postponed
• We 2 July - MrBot work (make fully automatic + other changes)
• Th 3 July - MrBot work (continue to expand functionality)
• Fr 4 July - Planning (moved from 1 July)

just write.

• Sa 5 July - Nav bars: prepare entire right nav bar (incl. drop-down for online people)
• Su 6 July - Nav bars: Test on a variety of browsers, resolutions, validations, and make live!
• Mo 7 July - Book (busy week, no coding?)
• Tu 8 July - Book
• We 9 July - Book
• Th 10 July - Book
• Fr 11 July - Book
• Sa 12 July - Book
• Su 13 July - MrBot?
• Mo 14 July - MrBot: finish bot-managing to-do list
• Tu 15 July - Chat: Do pending website additions and changes
• We 16 July - book....

Overall plans to be completed in July:

1. "Complete" MrBot
2. New navigation bars on RS site
3. Rough draft of book

Thereafter:

1. RS-wide merits concept (at least enough to begin coding)
2. RS-wide merits code
3. RS Ladder (like LIC but broader, for all games)
4. Website and bot support for ICTE or ORW type system
5. Missions Database: ground rules and a few missions/levels for each applicable game
6. Academy code
7. Academy: set up at least the few core courses
8. always IO work to be done

• (first day of every month?) evaluate recent work, assess immediate and future goals, determine next courses of action

TBA

• book: much research
• create home page module support
• update the multiplayer information page
• create a TeamSpeak page
• investigate creation of a Competitions hub
• update the X-Wing information website to reflect current status
• customized 404 page
• redo help page (topics not needed; point to appropriate venues)
• redo "about the website"
• potential new home page modules