Originally Posted by Icky

Thats a disagreement over opinions and favoured type of events. Interchange "parkour map" with "knockout bracket" or "victory counting" and your post doesn't change or answer quality v quantity.

Also. $1000 abd tourney can be done. But you'd need a LOT more tc to hit that mark like last time. Maybe I'll set one up if it's shown to be something the community wants.

Originally Posted by Insanity

Since we are talking real money...would it be hard for toribash to find sponsors to offer real money prizes in simple abd events?
I mean you can crunch down the numbers of people logging in and the mass of the comunity so you can easly go to different companis and tell them what you can offer. Advertising on banners and such shit. Make it more of a esport then it already is with real money prizes from advertising

Originally Posted by Icky

No not really. I still have your event doc on my pc. Looked at it this morning too. Numbers are a bit of an overshoot. But it could be nice.
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We say $1000 but we're referring to the price of the Xmillion tc equivelent of the time rather than actual USD.

I do recall the "how to host/do forum events" threads and guides in ES HQ we made being relatively well put together - perhaps you could expand on those, if you haven't already, into the realm of quick to prepare "instant" events - simple stuff that a willing member of the team could do almost on the spot, by changing some variables in the thread and posting it as is, with less jaw-dropping prizes and short deadlines (f.ex. up to 5 days). That would create a certain dynamic in the events board, changing it's sorry state in between the big events.

Another thing I conceptualized but didn't get to introduce and implement when I was still in the team, was a think-tank for the creation of forum events. Such group would consist of ex-staffers and active memebers of the community, interested in helping out. Certain level of discretion would be recquired, not to spoil the contents of the discussed events too soon, however without any mind-blowing recquirements to actually join the group, with the exception of the memeber limit at given time - up to 10 people. The group would operate in a special board, but without access to any staff boards, as it isn't needed and would only make a possibility of some leaks more likely. Their aim would be to create and prepare [PROP]s of interesting events, that a member of ES could take and host without having to conceptualize it him/herself - taking some load off the ES (some people, while good at in-game hosting, can't for the love of them sit down for 30-40 minutes and write down an ok-ish event [PROP]).
Inactive people would be removed quickly, making place for the new ones. Such "database" of possible events would come in handy in situation such as the current one.
Staff would obviously oversee the group, giving CnC, giving ideas, sometimes letting the group know in what direction to look, as events of this or that theme might be happening in the future, but for the most part they would simply do their "job" by coming up with "hosting-worthy" and "hosting-ready" events, widening the hosting possibilites for the ES. Of course, if an event created by the member of the group was used, all the people that worked on it would get their due credit in the event thread.

Originally Posted by Worm

The past 10 days only two es have hosted, blur and bands.(going off globals so might be wrong). 20 days back and only 3 es have hosted (bands, blur, and ping. also again i'm going off globals so might be wrong.) Whattup with that?

Originally Posted by Surge

keep in mind that they're meant to host 3 times a week each.

Originally Posted by Liquidoom

Also, hosting three times a week is actually a much bigger commitment than most people realize given that 99% of the staff members are volunteers.

Originally Posted by Liquidoom

Ele, your post gives essentially no constructive criticism and like Icky said, it is essentially a rant towards staff more than anything else. Dunno why this hasn't been locked tbh.

Originally Posted by Ele

If you don't want to do shit, don't volunteer in the first place.


My OP contains the statement that ES activity is shit, and there needs to be more activity. It also contains Icky's response - A list of reasons why it's currently shit. Now, we're all having a discussion based on those reasons, and we're all positing different ideas of how to solve this problem, or even if there is a problem to be solved.

This suggestion thread is working exactly as it should be working. This is clear. Don't try to stop discussion and progress by having it closed after it's already been reopened and is running fine. How unconstructive is that!

Originally Posted by Icky

Thats a disagreement over opinions and favoured type of events. Interchange "parkour map" with "knockout bracket" or "victory counting" and your post doesn't change or answer quality v quantity.

Also. $1000 abd tourney can be done. But you'd need a LOT more tc to hit that mark like last time. Maybe I'll set one up if it's shown to be something the community wants.