5) Write 800 words or more on something that interests you. It could be related to statistics, to a league issue you take seriously, or a niche part of history that doesn’t fit neatly into either of the above categories. This must be directly related to the league, so don’t wax 800 words about your team’s Werewolf server. Be warned that freedom comes with risk, and this category will be judged especially stringently for anyone trying to spew complete nonsense.
I been thinking about this for awhile and there's a few aspects I think we can improve on. For example I think we could greatly improve the media section by straight splitting it into NSFL and DSFL media, this is a small quality of life improvement but it would be effective all the same.
I've been thinking about how press conferences work, how you basically ask for questions,. answer them and you get only a 50% payout. So most people pretty much game the system by pretending that questions were asked by somebody, creating them for themselves. Answering them and then posting them into the media section and collecting the full 100% payout. They usually end up with what, like 13 views and 1 reply? If they're lucky.
I was thinking about the rookies who set up a sort of sports network on twitter with I'd like to say 3 interviewers/reporters/whatever who would report or aim to discuss and report rumors/interviews/news stories happening around the league. I'm unsure if it's still going however.
I propose we build off this. We create a channel in the ISFL gen discord called ISFL Live. Within it we set up another or the same RSS bot we have for the media section to spit out certain bits. Say the ISFL network interviews qb joe schmoe who won a clutch game 13 fixture against their closest rivals, he built on the interview by calling the team he faced a bunch of bums. Does this not generate discussion? Or how does player Zamir Kehla respond to rumors he's leaving the Outlaws? He responds openly and by calling out the ISFL media section. We need more media that's based on the lore of the league, its plot and kayfabe to speak.
Ontop of that let's remove press conferences as we know it. Remove the 50% pish. Once a week we have a wheel (no hear me out). So for the ISFL and the DSFL we have a wheel, each real life week (on monday or sunday) it spins twice. One of the wheels has all the teams on it , the other has all the players in the league on it (or you use a random rng picker using player ID's or whatever). Wheels spin, numbers are picked and that week has a total of 4 press conferences. 2 team and 2 player press conferences. The media team builds questions up for the individual player (they can frame questions and answers how they want, like the real media) and report it to drum up some drama/news/whatever. They have to stick IN lore based. No usernames bullshit.
As for the team press conferneces, we make a team press conference area. It just consists of the media team creating questions that all the players of the team that was selected will answer, individual questions or whatever, maybe limit it to a max of 2 questions per player. Give people a reason to read press confernences, let's do something worthwile with what we've got. All of the responses get either manually pasted or automatically put into the TEAM PRESS CONFERENCE area.
Fuck it while we're at it remove some channels and put some in game, in lore, in plot and in kayfabe sections in there.
While we're making grandscale changes holy FUCK could we change some stuff on the forum like
- Let's remove the draconian restrictions on agents, we get it. You guys are angery that players might not skip to your lou in negotiations.
- Disable the bot in gen chat from posting graphics, or get it to post it in another section other than the media one.
- Get rid of the twitch link, we dont use it anymore.
- get rid of the trashcan, why tf can I view it???
- get rid/make charity events invisible when theres no events ongoing
- enforce mandatory reading tests for low iq brainlet members.
- Start paying out quality media over spam quantity media, at the very least dilute the raw % payout for extremely low effort media pieces, graphics and traditional media of course. Reward bigger payouts to group projects and just overall more well researched stuff.
- bring back the changes PT, replace one of the current PT's with it or give us the option to recommend feedback weekly and collect TPE from it in place of the PT stuff. Maybe instead of your generic af activity check you even combine that with the PT that gives out 3 tpe, ac gives out 2 tpe. Let us write idk 500 words of feedback for 5 tpe a week, anything dear god to make it seem like what we say matters.
- also please god just stop like bumbling into your own decisions , self sabotaging yourself at every step going forward jesus christ. It can't be that hard.
- Maybe bring back the nsfl community days/game stuff, honestly.
- Let Dotts be able to establish price mins and maxes for cards, let us sell BIN price or auction cards off. Have it established what rarity cards can NOT be sold for less then via price caps, please god.
I been thinking about this for awhile and there's a few aspects I think we can improve on. For example I think we could greatly improve the media section by straight splitting it into NSFL and DSFL media, this is a small quality of life improvement but it would be effective all the same.
I've been thinking about how press conferences work, how you basically ask for questions,. answer them and you get only a 50% payout. So most people pretty much game the system by pretending that questions were asked by somebody, creating them for themselves. Answering them and then posting them into the media section and collecting the full 100% payout. They usually end up with what, like 13 views and 1 reply? If they're lucky.
I was thinking about the rookies who set up a sort of sports network on twitter with I'd like to say 3 interviewers/reporters/whatever who would report or aim to discuss and report rumors/interviews/news stories happening around the league. I'm unsure if it's still going however.
I propose we build off this. We create a channel in the ISFL gen discord called ISFL Live. Within it we set up another or the same RSS bot we have for the media section to spit out certain bits. Say the ISFL network interviews qb joe schmoe who won a clutch game 13 fixture against their closest rivals, he built on the interview by calling the team he faced a bunch of bums. Does this not generate discussion? Or how does player Zamir Kehla respond to rumors he's leaving the Outlaws? He responds openly and by calling out the ISFL media section. We need more media that's based on the lore of the league, its plot and kayfabe to speak.
Ontop of that let's remove press conferences as we know it. Remove the 50% pish. Once a week we have a wheel (no hear me out). So for the ISFL and the DSFL we have a wheel, each real life week (on monday or sunday) it spins twice. One of the wheels has all the teams on it , the other has all the players in the league on it (or you use a random rng picker using player ID's or whatever). Wheels spin, numbers are picked and that week has a total of 4 press conferences. 2 team and 2 player press conferences. The media team builds questions up for the individual player (they can frame questions and answers how they want, like the real media) and report it to drum up some drama/news/whatever. They have to stick IN lore based. No usernames bullshit.
As for the team press conferneces, we make a team press conference area. It just consists of the media team creating questions that all the players of the team that was selected will answer, individual questions or whatever, maybe limit it to a max of 2 questions per player. Give people a reason to read press confernences, let's do something worthwile with what we've got. All of the responses get either manually pasted or automatically put into the TEAM PRESS CONFERENCE area.
Fuck it while we're at it remove some channels and put some in game, in lore, in plot and in kayfabe sections in there.
While we're making grandscale changes holy FUCK could we change some stuff on the forum like
- Let's remove the draconian restrictions on agents, we get it. You guys are angery that players might not skip to your lou in negotiations.
- Disable the bot in gen chat from posting graphics, or get it to post it in another section other than the media one.
- Get rid of the twitch link, we dont use it anymore.
- get rid of the trashcan, why tf can I view it???
- get rid/make charity events invisible when theres no events ongoing
- enforce mandatory reading tests for low iq brainlet members.
- Start paying out quality media over spam quantity media, at the very least dilute the raw % payout for extremely low effort media pieces, graphics and traditional media of course. Reward bigger payouts to group projects and just overall more well researched stuff.
- bring back the changes PT, replace one of the current PT's with it or give us the option to recommend feedback weekly and collect TPE from it in place of the PT stuff. Maybe instead of your generic af activity check you even combine that with the PT that gives out 3 tpe, ac gives out 2 tpe. Let us write idk 500 words of feedback for 5 tpe a week, anything dear god to make it seem like what we say matters.
- also please god just stop like bumbling into your own decisions , self sabotaging yourself at every step going forward jesus christ. It can't be that hard.
- Maybe bring back the nsfl community days/game stuff, honestly.
- Let Dotts be able to establish price mins and maxes for cards, let us sell BIN price or auction cards off. Have it established what rarity cards can NOT be sold for less then via price caps, please god.