Hi guys, its great that we are now affiliated with TheWon and his MKart website. My exams are just about finished and I should be able to get back into posting on the forums and posting news.
Iv'e been talking to the mods and admins about a possible wifi subsite for TDS. Here is a more in depth look into how i want this wifi site to be like. Opinions welcome.
A sub domain, maybe wifi.touchds.com. That main page can somewhat look like a blog, something maybe along the lines of this (just a random blog i found
http://wishingiknew.blog.com/ ) The main idea is a blog news system similar to what we have now, where admins and mods and people who are taking care of wifi events can post news. And then of course links can go on the side - whatever. And we can have a forum which will just be a sub forum off this TDS one. Well we have that now - and its great, we just have to work on it. No biggy.
That seems simple enough - but with our newly affiliated friend TheWon we can do a lot of cool things. In the following example ill use Mario Kart DS as the game example.
Its 2006 and 'season 1' of the MKDS comp. As a player, i come to the wifi TDS site, where i can have easy access to the ladder information, and all misc info. TDS in my opinion 'should' be 1 main league in which there are clans and such within it. (Personal clans etc) Throughout the year we as a league will have matches against each other etc and everynow and then we can have a game versing our affiliates, TheWon's website, etc. a 'league war' type thing or a big event. We have to work out how we can keep a ladder/ranking system going, and a database for all the clans.
I personally think groupings are much better. We have many members from different places in TDS, many of which are inactive but im certain will become active when WiFi games come out and we have a wifi section.
So we have people from different countries etc. Why dont we group the countries or areas? Such as, an idea im working on and Im actually going through with this - im going to make something similar to a "Oceanic Nintendo Gaming League" - a subset from TDS's wifi section. The ONGL will be home to all the players and players who are in clans from australia and this same part of the world. I think this is a good method.
Its easy to navigate with. For example, a new person comes to the tds forums, is interested in the wifi events so enters the wifi sub forum. From that page h/she will select which part of the world he/she is in (such as Oceanic will go to my one) and from there will be all the relavent news and information about the events going on in that part of the world. In other words the person will only find information most relavent to him/her. Of course there should also be a global area, for those who want to play with other friends or clans that are elsewhere. But this idea is mainly for clans.
Having this syetm also solves most of the Time Zones problems - but of course does not solve everything.
Please let me know how you guys think. You should find a advert poster on a forum thread recruiting clans for my Oceanic area within the next month.