Quaddicted.com Forum

Qmaster

Member

Quaddicted Suggestions

I figure I'll get this forum started with a suggestion thread.  Anyone have any features they want to suggest for Quaddicted? Any forum topics, changes to layout, improvements, etc. ?  I can't really think of any suggestion other than to have this...a suggestion thread. ;) 

Cheers to Spirit for adding this forum, a really really really cool new feature.  This forum is really the biggest thing I would have suggested for the site a few days ago.  I'm looking forward to see this forum grow.  Happy posting everyone! :)

goddogx

Member

Re: Quaddicted Suggestions

is this a dead forum already:) anyway, i suggest a thread where discovered sp maps can be posted, and, hopefully spirit will review them and add them to the database.

negke

Moderator

Re: Quaddicted Suggestions

Feel free to start one here

Spirit

Administrator

Re: Quaddicted Suggestions

Hey goddogx, sorry that I have not yet worked through your list. I am currently going through a different user contribution, a list of errors from installations via the Quake Injector. Afterwards, your list is on my to-do.

A thread like that is a great idea. I created http://www.quaddicted.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=8

This forum is not really public yet, so no surprise that no-one uses it. ;-)

onetruepurple

Banned

Re: Quaddicted Suggestions

Perhaps a feed of the latest reviews and ratings on the frontpage? Like, "onetruepurple rated Contract Revoked 5/5".

Otherwise nobody ever notices new stuff on old pages. :(

Spirit IsNotHome

Guest

Re: Quaddicted Suggestions

such info is available for registered users at http://www.quaddicted.com/reviews/log.php

I did make it private to protect privacy but maybe that was overly cautious. It is also not linked anywhere I think. I would like to open that all up but also let people use (contribute to) the site in anonymity and such. gotta have to think about it some more. maybe a user option "public ratings/tags/etc" would be a good idea.

on that note I also need to select a proper license for contributions. should have done that right from the beginning... I guess user submissions are giving the site owner some rights what he can do with them but I would like to make everything available under a truly free license for future archival/preservation. anyone know what my rights on all the user submitted stuff are (i am german)?

negke

Moderator

Re: Quaddicted Suggestions

Header links: Interviews would make more sense in the Articles section (not important or up-to-date enough to warrant a header link of its own). A link to the Tronyn Reviews bit in the Articles section would be good, possibly even links to each individual review.

negke

Moderator

Re: Quaddicted Suggestions

A search option for the main page/wiki would be useful.

sprit

Guest

Re: Quaddicted Suggestions

the functionality exists, but I have not added a search form because the split between wiki, forum and maps (and all the rest) sucks... www.quaddicted.com/?do=search&id=negke

I let yacy crawl everything but I did not configure it properly so there is a lot of junk in there too.  www.quaddicted.com:8090 (add "site:quaddicted.com") to restrict to it).

Spiritonthego

Guest

Re: Quaddicted Suggestions

yacy should index .qc files. and zip inside zip (1 level!). then do the mod dump a we have a searchable index of sources.

negke

Moderator

Re: Quaddicted Suggestions

The "random map" link should appear on every individual map page for more convenient randomizing (so one doesn't need to go back to the list or front page every time).

mmm

Member

Re: Quaddicted Suggestions

I'd love to have a "random unplayed map" link that will get me a random map I haven't yet rated. I'm already stumbling on the ones I've played while I've only rated around 40 of them.

hkBattousai

Member

Re: Quaddicted Suggestions

Can you please remove this window:

It is useless and pointless for the standard user. I fed up at closing these windows.

You can add a small text-area in the right-side panel for displaying the engine output. I don't think it is necessary to pop up a window every time user plays a map.

Icantthinkofanickname

Moderator

Re: Quaddicted Suggestions

The "Additional Links" section for each map is great, but the links to Underworldfan's site are all outdated (they take you to the inactive http://underworld.planetquake.gamespy.com/ instead of http://www.quakewiki.net/archives/underworld/. This may be true of other links too; I don't know). I don't know if there is a relatively easy and painless way to update those links, but if so, that would be great.

Secondly, might it not be good idea also to link to Func_Msgboard discussions of given maps? Not all quaddicted users are func members (or even lurkers) and may not stumble upon the discussion of the map they are playing by accident -- end yet these discussions, by people who really know what they are talking about, often provide valuable background information and insight into the maps.

Last edited by Icantthinkofanickname (2013-12-22 12:28:37)

erc

Member

Re: Quaddicted Suggestions

Yeah, I remember myself organizing those links and adding them one by one by hand to the respective .xml files - like, three years ago. Unfortunately, most of the sites went down soon after so the links got outdated. Since then, Spirit has been kindly hosting backups of the sites, but noone's looked into updating the links unfortunately.

Spirit

Administrator

Re: Quaddicted Suggestions

I just did step A for this. Uploaded https://www.quaddicted.com/webarchive/u … mespy.com/ with dead links changed from Fileplanet to Quaddicted. Did the same for teamshambler (badly...).

sock

Member

Re: Quaddicted Suggestions

Why is there no login function on the front page?
Why do you have to go to the map page to login?

Tronyn

Guest

Re: Quaddicted Suggestions

How about a link to "Articles" on the front page under Highlights? How about a link to the Quaddicted Advent Calendar under Articles, as well as the article "Gaming Made Me Quake" (linked in my entry), and the following recent commentary video about Quake: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEcYylHhQvo ?
Also, Kell's two articles, especially "Lovecraft in Quake" HAVE to be linked there.
What about links to the CustomGamer Quake videos on youtube?
Hell, even "If Quake were Made Today" (a hilarious video describing the decline of FPS design) deserves to be on there.
Also, I think there was another mainstream article about Quake in the last couple years (comparable to "Gaming Made Me Quake") that got lost somewhere. If I find it I'll let you know.
Basically, I think the articles section is in need of an overhaul.

onetruepurple

Banned

Re: Quaddicted Suggestions

"If Quake were Made Today" was right on as many notes as it was wrong on.

negke

Moderator

Re: Quaddicted Suggestions

• Better date format: "04-Jan-2014" instead of "04.01.2014". The current one is unnecessarily confusing to a large number of users. Changing it should be a simple matter of find/replace on the database.

• Fix or workaround for the author links on map pages. Currently, names with multiple words make the filter either only search for the first word or replace spaces and special characters so that it returns zero results.

CasualQuakeguy

Member

Re: Quaddicted Suggestions

I figure I'll get this forum started with a suggestion thread.  Anyone have any features they want to suggest for Quaddicted? Any forum topics, changes to layout, improvements, etc. ?  I can't really think of any suggestion other than to have this...a suggestion thread. ;) 

Cheers to Spirit for adding this forum, a really really really cool new feature.  This forum is really the biggest thing I would have suggested for the site a few days ago.  I'm looking forward to see this forum grow.  Happy posting everyone! :)

Well, I'm going to get virtually tarred and feathered for suggesting this as a Quaddicted project, but I have to suggest this under the "etc." category.

I think that, for me, Quake's gameplay is good, yet boxy, clean, and stale at the same time due to age (that's inevitable). So, I think that it needs updated and freshened up. And, to do this, I think that, just like classic Doom has Brutal Doom by Sergeant_Mark_IV, I think that Quake needs Brutal Quake. In fact, I'd be interested in playing more Quake maps because of this alone.

I believe that Brutal Doom is responsible for helping reinvigorate the classic Doom modding community. Likewise, something like Brutal Quake could help reinvigorate the Quake modding community.

Let's be realistic here. In the end, as with playing any other game, playing Quake is just about having fun and the flexibility of taste which comes with it. Even with me, sometimes I feel like a hardcore purist, and other times I feel like just having some happyfunkills. I'm not serious all of the time, that's for darn sure. So, I think that my suggestion is not disrespectful to the legacy of Quake, just an example of tempering idealism with realism.

Anyways, thanks for reading. :-)

Last edited by CasualQuakeguy (2014-01-04 17:22:39)

Icantthinkofanickname

Moderator

Re: Quaddicted Suggestions

CasualQuakeGuy, 2 things:

1) I don't think this belongs in the Quaddicted Suggestions thread. This thread is for suggesting changes/improvements/additions to the website, and not for suggesting new mods/maps.

2)

I think that, for me, Quake's gameplay is good, yet boxy, clean, and stale at the same time due to age (that's inevitable). So, I think that it needs updated and freshened up.

... something like Brutal Quake could help reinvigorate the Quake modding community.

Let me be the first with the tar and feathers: I don't think the Quake SP1 scene is any need of „reinvigoration”. As anyone who frequents this site can plainly see, there is no shortage of new releases of extraordinarily high quality.

Of course people play Quake for different reasons and have different preferences when it comes to custom maps, but your forum posts so far have expressed dissatisfaction with pretty much every facet of Quake SP: you cannot find custom maps that live up to your ideal vision, and you find the gameplay "stale".

I say this half-jokingly, but: are you sure Quake is the game for you?

I'm sorry if this comes across as harsh.

Last edited by Icantthinkofanickname (2014-01-05 15:07:08)

Icantthinkofanickname

Moderator

Re: Quaddicted Suggestions

Again, sorry if my response above came across as self-righteous and rude. CasualQuakeguy, you are of course entitled to your opinion. Perhaps you want to start a different thread, though, under "General Discussion about Quake". There have been a few attempts to "modernise" Quake (or aspects of Quake) via various mods/engine extras etc., so maybe others could suggest something and help you find/compile an approximation of the "Brutal Quake" you are looking for.

LoggedOutSpirit

Guest

Re: Quaddicted Suggestions

I disagree about some of the reasons, especially I think that quake's gameplay is great, but a Brutal Quake could be great fun if developed by some good guys.

Engoo's pixel gore blood fest mode would be a perfect base.

Give the DMSP2 mod a try!

jackieben

Member

Re: Quaddicted Suggestions

General purpose forum sections would be nice, to talk about non-quake stuff like music, tech, life etc