Shared neighborhood - ground rules
baratron:
Quote from: eaglezero on 2005 November 11, 22:58:58
Brynne -- a livejournal community would be far better than a yahoo group. If you set it on moderated membership, people request to join and then the moderators approve them, and I think that's what you are looking for, isn't it? You could then make all of the posts with download links, etc friends-only, so no one except the members would be able to view them. Plus, you can put pictures in, and there are linked comments, so there's none of that yahoo-group "quote someone's entire original post in your reply" nonsense. People could host their pictures wherever they wished -- photobucket, imageshack, their own webspace, hotlink from the exchange if you can do that, whatever.
I use livejournal: http://www.livejournal.com/community/baratronstories/. Only just set it up this past weekend, so only one of my stories is up - but go to this post & click through. It's pretty easy to read, imo. I set up baratronstories as a community, because that allows people to friend the journal (so all entries appear on their friends page), or join the community (so they have it bookmarked from their own userinfo). However, there are issues with this, specifically that you can't make "backdated" entries in a community.
It's really difficult to explain all the ins & outs of how lj works to get to the point where I can explain what a "backdated" entry is without me typing in a lot of text and waving my hands around at the screen a lot :). Go to the feature overview & start reading the FAQs. I admit to being a huge fan of livejournal and the lj code (which also powers deadjournal & Greatest Journal & a few other sites). I'm so keen on lj that I actually have a Permanent Account, which I paid $100 US for. However, you can set up an account for free, and these days even the free servers are still pretty fast.
In my community the only accounts that have posting access are mine, everyone else is restricted to comments, which go at the end of the entries and are semi-threaded (it's not brilliant, but it's not a total free-for-all like web forum posts are). You can set up livejournal comments so they are open to anyone (including anonymous), registered users only (must have a livejournal or OpenID account), or friends only. (Where you specifiy who is allowed). Individual tweaking can be done via the console, including banning specific named people or IP addresses.
Assmitten:
Aww poop, Motoki bowed out for now. I do like the idea of titling it Simpotence. I have a small suggestion--how about the sims have our user names as last names so the family names can carry on.
Bangelnuts:
Quote from: Assmitten on 2005 November 12, 01:44:25
Aww poop, Motoki bowed out for now. I do like the idea of titling it Simpotence. I have a small suggestion--how about the sims have our user names as last names so the family names can carry on.
thats a good I dea
ZephyrZodiac:
I'm going to add my two-penn'orth here.
First, I'm happy to play without most hacks and fixes.
Second, I agree that aspiration rewards should only be used once, but that should apply to each individual sim as far as the elixir is concerned - otherwise large families would be penalized as against small ones! I would say that each sim can buy one bottle of elixir, but instead of being able to use it when they are gold, they should have to be platinum.
Third, Aging off should be allowed for three days after a family first moves into the house, but the player gets to choose exactly when, as if there are kids and teens, aging off I find prevents them from improving their grades at school.
Fourth, since I personally feel that the way sims motives fall so quickly is unrealistic, I would like to allow Gnohmon's flamingo of contentment to be used, since it doesn't completely stop sims from being tired, just allows them to have the energy to do a little more in the day. The other flamingoes however should not be allowed.
Fifth, in order to prevent any copyright issues, I would suggest that anything we may at some future stage choose to share with other sims should only have custom content from file-share friendly sites. In this respect, since so many of us are, I know, sick to death of Beachy Keen, could I possibly suggest that (in additon to Maxis ones) we all use Juniper Sun's walls and floors, as they are all in this category, and anyone who doesn't have them (and doesn;t want the bother of downloading them from FilePlanet) can PM me with their email address and I would gladly send them the files.
Sixth, I would rathr the rules were short and simple to follow as some of us (at least one -yours truly) is getting a bit long-in-the-tooth, and remembering a lot of rules is just too difficult.
There, I;ve said what occurs to me but I'll no doubt think of something else later on!
cheriem:
I like the two tier idea. I like the idea of having my own hacks and cc once I download the shared 'hood. I would love to have the wild card though so I can move the game in a direction I might not have thought of going. So I guess what I'm saying is this is coming along nicely.
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