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What are your thoughts toward COTEC?; For the future please post!!
Topic Started: Aug 29 2006, 08:13 PM (2,150 Views)
The Bearer
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Currently I am compiling a report for the Administration of COTEC in order to gain a proper understanding of the situation COTEC is currently in so that strategies and actions can be implemented to deliver a significantly better COTEC.

A key issue however is that I dont properly understand what you the members of this great forum truly think of the forum, where you see it heading to, what fears do you have for it. Your honest opinion is what I need and need from every willing voice that cares for COTEC.

This information will assist me and the rest of the Admin to take COTEC into a new era that no one would have thought possible.
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Mistrea
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Hmm ok as you are not asking for specifics i will just say my general feelings:

1) COTEC is a great but pretty small community.

2) COTEC is growing.

3) As the only major mortal forum COTEC should be bigger.

4) COTEC, The Herdstone and Dl should be closer linked. (Chaos Star).

5) COTEC has many things to offer; as well as a generally wise and nice community we have the unique CoaD.

6) We should exploit number 5 more, have an advertising and ambassador team designed to spread the word about COTEC in a friendly manner, non intrusive manner.

7) Have a list pinned somewhere with the COTEC team and their jobs.

8) One of COTEC's greatest advantages is your graphics design :)

9) We have too many projects going on: The Website, LOA2, The Everchosen Quest, The Lagothians, CaoD league 2, Project Mally thing. We can do all these but teams need to be specifically allocated and an overview of the order needs to be established.

10) One thing COTEC lacks is tactical articles, we just don't have many. I am currently writing a fairly long one, i'm not sure when i will have it finished as i am waiting for 7th edition before continuing.

11) A tactical article and/or discussion thread would, in the end, be ideal. A great example of this can be found here.

12) Our links page is old, it needs updating. An ambassador team should have the job of ensuring each site linked knows about us and has some form of advertising on.

13) COTEC looks great however a small note is that the forum descriptions are not always of similar grammatical layout, i.e some don't have a full stop, some do. This is pretty petty but i have noticed many forums suffer from this, and it just looks nicer if an admin spends a few minutes fixing this.

14) What’s happened to the everchosen quest? I know you are doing the website but after that will the next project be LoA or the quest?

15) Is there an assigned website team? I myself suck at that sort of thing but i'm sure some people would be willing to help you out on the vast amount of work youd have undertaken for the community :)

16) When you have more than 2000 posts you get silly default red icons, (see syngge), these look out of place next to all your awesome member icon graphics, it can be fixed just by making a >2k title with the living god icon attached.

17) Brown is a great CaoD leader, however his pinning skills are not great :) There are an insane amount of pinned topics in the CaoD forum, this looks a mess and is confusing. :D

18) COTEC has great potential, if we pull of LoA2 correctly i think we could become a much bigger forum.

I'm not exactly sure what kind of things you wanted opinions on so i just listed what came to my mind about COTEC.
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acolite
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Basically the 1st part of you post is about getting the forum to expand and grow, Mistrea?

I have to agree, as we are a relatively small community, yet we can expand a lot.

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15) Is there an assigned website team? I myself suck at that sort of thing but i'm sure some people would be willing to help you out on the vast amount of work youd have undertaken for the community


Yes... I was talking to Bearer about that. Theoretically I am a member of it, though I have not really been assigned anything.

basically the admin and Bearer in particular should know more, but yes, there is a web team.

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18) COTEC has great potential, if we pull of LoA2 correctly i think we could become a much bigger forum.


*winks at Bearer* just you wait Mistrea...

though yes, I think LoA could be a defining campaign for both COTEC and the community as a whole.
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Stratos
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Aug 29 2006, 08:44 AM
*winks at Bearer* just you wait Mistrea...

Would you stop doing that? We know you know something crazy about LoA, but there is nothing the general forum can do until the campaign comes, so please stop hinting!

Otherwise, I think Mistrea has some very valid points.
For the tactical article, I may as well let the cat out of the box now. I've talked to Bearer, and he's agreed to let me start putting together a community "newsletter" sort of thing. I'll be compiling arcticles from tactics, painting tips, fluff, forum news, etc. I'll be heading the project, so if you want to help me with some of the articles, lemme know!

Stratos
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Mistrea
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^ That sounds great! I think i will have to drop you a PM.

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*winks at Bearer* just you wait Mistrea...


I got this feeling when Bearer said it would change the nature of online campaigns forever or some such :)
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acolite
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Stratos
Aug 29 2006, 04:25 PM
acolite
Aug 29 2006, 08:44 AM
*winks at Bearer* just you wait Mistrea...

Would you stop doing that? We know you know something crazy about LoA, but there is nothing the general forum can do until the campaign comes, so please stop hinting!

lol no! I was reffering to something Bearer said in the admin forum which he also said to me!

no, in fact I doubt I know any more then you about LoA.

As for the newsletter Strat, sounds awesome!
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Mistrea
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About a tactical index, our various forums contain loads of decent tactical threads (if not articles) however these are often buried deeply and are not likely to be viewed by anyone looking. Wouldn't it be a good idea for some one to create a tactical index topic with links to each topic? I think it would be very nice and make looking for tactics much easier. I would be willing to sift through all the topics and compile something like this if you like, then it could be stickied if it appears good.

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lol no! I was reffering to something Bearer said in the admin forum which he also said to me!


We have an admin forum? :o I never knew. :unsure:
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Aug 29 2006, 07:56 PM
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lol no! I was reffering to something Bearer said in the admin forum which he also said to me!


We have an admin forum? :o I never knew. :unsure:

That's why only admins can see it Mistrea.. <_<

Anyway, I agree with most of the points Mistrea stated. If he hadn't done it, I'd have done it :D
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Stratos did tell the forum about it the admin section... maybe only I lsitened to him though...

Anywho, for the CoD revamp I had a developed system and list of what is needed... it is easy enough to transfer to COTEC.

I'm in the middle of hosting a party right now, so I'll do it tomorrow.
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Mistrea
Aug 29 2006, 08:34 AM
17) Brown is a great CaoD leader, however his pinning skills are not great  :) There are an insane amount of pinned topics in the CaoD forum, this looks a mess and is confusing.  :D

No, look at how many I have pinned :P

I just dont really want to unpin some of the bearer's posts...

I just thought of stealing the UE's idea and just pinning a thread of useful links... I'm doing that in a minute.

(I've only pinned 3 threads if I recall correctly)

EDIT: It is done.

EDITx2: I realized I didnt contribute anything in this topic...

Stratos' Idea of a newsletter is very good. This shouldnt be worked on before the forum gets larger, because it will be a waste of time, since there will be less viewers.

The way I see COTEC is as a great Chaos community with a unique Arena of Death. That alone has sparked a fair amount of activity.

When the new site is up, we will get more members, since we will have a link to an awesome main page to provide people, in stead of a main page that says 'under constuction... He's back...', and also a unified site, since the current CAoD page doesnt fit in with the rest of the site.

Another thing, that was mentioned earlier, would be for the main URL to have 'www.chamberoftheeverchosen.net/index' as opposed to 'z4.invisionfree.com/cotec/index'.
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An idea would be to have something big planned for the 7th ed Chaos book launch. Now that's a time to get members! (although quite far ahead in time)
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Aug 29 2006, 08:55 PM
Another thing, that was mentioned earlier, would be for the main URL to have 'www.chamberoftheeverchosen.net/index' as opposed to 'z4.invisionfree.com/cotec/index'.

Perhaps this can be taken care of when the "Chaos Star" project is complete. Then, we'll be like the other big forums (Asur.org, Druchii.net, etc) with their "homepage" and forum index. Lets not tax Lord Bearer too much, eh? ;)

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7) Have a list pinned somewhere with the COTEC team and their jobs.

Technically, that's what the "Moderating Team" page is for. But, I know what you're talking about - all of the different projects and their developers and such. Yes, we should have something like this posted in the News section, but it isn't a pressing matter at the moment. Maybe we should wait until things like LoA2 are in full swing.

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5) COTEC has many things to offer; as well as a generally wise and nice community we have the unique CoaD.

6) We should exploit number 5 more, have an advertising and ambassador team designed to spread the word about COTEC in a friendly manner, non intrusive manner.

Hmm, yes, but how would we implement that in a "non-intrusive" manner? Most people probably wouldn't like a big topic about some Chaos forum on their Wood Elf boards. Of course, we did something similar to this in the past (The "new and Revived COTEC" campaign back in '04 that we posted on the UnderEmpire, among other places) where we put a stickied announcement in the forum's Off-Topic area. Well, it seems I just contradicted myself in the same paragraph. ;)

So an ambassador team would probably be a good idea. It would be easy to make, as long as we choose the right people for the right forums (so don't go putting Mistrea in Druchii.net, for example. :P )

And the newsletter sounds great, Stratos - but we may want to save it for later. In fact, we could coincide its start with the launch of the Chaos Star to really draw people in.
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Stratos
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Trust me... the newsletter is nowhere near launching. It is in it's very early stages... In fact... I need to gather up a team for it and such... so it will take a lot of time before we will see it... but then again... that is for another topic..

Stratos
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So an ambassador team would probably be a good idea. It would be easy to make, as long as we choose the right people for the right forums (so don't go putting Mistrea in Druchii.net, for example.  )

I could mention you guys over at the Stronghold if you like.
It's a forum with a lot of activity, not only visited by Ogre players, but many different races who's players employ Ogres as DoW.
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Mistrea
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^Sounds cool.

And yes the enitre purpose of having ambassadors would be to ensure a neutral cooperation between COTEC and other sites and try and keep some form of advertsiement there.
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