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Post by Shackles on Mar 22, 2012 19:20:35 GMT -5
Keeping SPB as nothing more then some sort of forum game is a great way to kill it. it'll sit on the Internet and be forgotten as the community that once populated it move on. Wait, what? Zarth, SPB is not the only site that does this OC roleplaying format. It's not a 'forum game' that we invented. There are tons of hugely successful sites that are about roleplaying with original characters like this. Entervoid had hundreds of users and you need to be really good at drawing to even be able to participate there, there are original character tournaments on DeviantART that people even make animations for, and there's lots of roleplaying forums that are nothing but text, even. Making a fighting game or something would be cool, but it wouldn't be like it's the next step up from character roleplaying and the entire future of SPB should be some MMO where characters on the site are NPC's or something like that. The biggest threat to SPB isn't that we are not trying to make it into a massive online videogame.
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Post by Shackles on Mar 22, 2012 2:18:09 GMT -5
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Post by Shackles on Mar 21, 2012 16:41:25 GMT -5
I have nothing interesting or note worthy to add. I'm just posting because I can. That summarizes pretty much every post by every person who frequents the Random Thread.
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Post by Shackles on Mar 21, 2012 1:34:07 GMT -5
Yo I'm doing stuff with Marckus. I don't know if reserves are still alright, but I'll be done with this picture pretty soon, so it'd be cool if people could not do anything to Marckus.
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Post by Shackles on Mar 20, 2012 21:33:11 GMT -5
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Post by Shackles on Mar 19, 2012 21:42:22 GMT -5
If Swordkill has every move ever used in DBZ apart from flight, then he is seriously overpowered considering how many energy moves there are in that show that can just destroy planets. Maybe give him a few specific moves or something, but avoid stuff like spirit bombs.
Edit: Actually, spirit bombs might be kind of cool if you use them sparingly, since apparently you'd have to gather energy from other people around you and it can be deflected by people who are very good in alignment ('pure of heart'). But still, there's a lot of stupidly powerful moves in DBZ, I'd lay down a few specific ones that SK can use.
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Post by Shackles on Mar 19, 2012 20:37:10 GMT -5
What are your guys thoughts on single use throwaway characters that aren't thrown in a roster or whatever? I've seen a decent amount of people jump into things before with characters that they haven't had approved or anything, mostly Ghost, but you seem pretty trustworthy in terms of character balancing, although you should probably include short explanations of powers and stuff when joining a thread with the character. Other than that, I, personally, am okay with the idea.
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Post by Shackles on Mar 19, 2012 17:27:13 GMT -5
Hey guys, if I dug this back up and started writing again, would you go back and read it instead of just thinking "shit that's long" and closing it? This was one of the only fan-fics I was actually reading back when you were updating (along with Balto's and sometimes Zarth's), so yeah I'd definitely be interested if you started it up again.
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Post by Shackles on Mar 18, 2012 19:38:47 GMT -5
Well I'll think of the weaknesses and combos as I go along I think, but like Spawner said right now I just want to know if its an good idea or not and if its been done before. Thanks for responding by the way . I don't think there's any specific character that used both ice and lightning, although there's been a lot of characters that used either ice or lightning. But yeah, seems like a pretty solid idea. Elemental powers are a bit common, but it's hard to go wrong with them, and having two powers gives you a lot of variety for what sorts of things you can do.
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Post by Shackles on Mar 18, 2012 19:34:02 GMT -5
It's definately looking delicious, but i think it might have a tad too much grey. Any suggestions for where colors should go? I'm a little constrained in proboards, but I'm also looking for ideas for the new site. This was more-so an idea for the site since I don't know if you can even do this on Proboards, but I was thinking that we could have the different sections on the main page be on wide red/green/blue buttons that match the style of the buttons that MVG made. Might even be cool to do something like that for threads in the sections as well, although I don't know how well that'd work out either. Des was also talking to me about doing the background with blue, green, and red paint splotches, which I think would be a lot cooler than just doing one plain color, and would also provide some color when looking at threads since it might be hard to incorporate color into those without making use of the background. Oh, also, on Entervoid they used to have a sort of, eh, 'title screen' for lack of a better description, where basically before you went to the main page there was a huge logo for the site that you clicked on to enter the site. I always thought that was pretty cool, so maybe we could do something like that for the SPB site.
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Post by Shackles on Mar 18, 2012 11:55:04 GMT -5
I'm not quite sure when we lost the custom smileys, but I don't know how to get them back. I think they were on Rabies' photobucket account. Also I'll see what I can do about transferring the SPB.com color scheme to a skin here. A while back someone who had skin permissions showed up and deleted all the skins and custom smileys and custom buttons and the SPB logo (presumably it was InuOrDie, or someone who had the same IP address as her/ him). Thankfully people still had a lot of the shit saved, but we lost the smileys anyway.
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Post by Shackles on Mar 17, 2012 21:11:39 GMT -5
Howdy, welcome to SPB. Your character is actually quite cool. There are a lot of characters on SPB based around spawning things (most spawning more specific things, like guns or something), so the idea of an all-around counter-spawner type character is a neato idea.
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Post by Shackles on Mar 17, 2012 10:11:30 GMT -5
Perhaps we could have a subforum devoted to threads in the style of the 2007 Thread, just fast, sloppy, moronic fun. That is kind of a terrible idea. Don't try to seperate people based on art skills and shit, that just creates a wall. People are free to draw however they want in Main Arena threads and Grudge Matches and suchlike, but doing anything that would discourage new artists from trying to improve is bad.
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Post by Shackles on Mar 16, 2012 18:03:59 GMT -5
I reckon half the problem is that we've all been around for a really long time now, and you're all getting tired. If you guys want to get the place up and running again and being awesome like it used to, we need some fresh meat, new members. Advertising. I told my friend ElveUK where my Steam name came from and he was intrigued right away and was amused by how hilarious the 2007 thread is. He signed up right away. See, it's not hard to get new people in here since SPB is such an amazing idea. You just have to tell people about it. We've all been around for a really long time? No. You guys were active users in like 2007 and maybe a bit of 2008. By the time Destructin and Grent were showing up, you dudes were gone. You have not been regular users for 3-4 years. We do advertise. Tons of people I know from SPB always have SPB linked on other forum accounts, or have it linked in their taglines on messengers. Destructin advertises all the time on other forums, we got a new member a few weeks ago from FluidAnims that way. A while ago we even got a decent amount of members from Facepunch but that sort of ended in disaster because most of the people from the Facepunch MSPaint section are idiots, like Des said. I think I prefer how things are in the 2007 thread, I don't have to try very hard and the quickly drawn bad art style makes it funny, and I'd rather quickly get pictures out laughing my ass off having loads of fun than being super super cereal in the other threads. In there, it's also easier for people to just jump in. If Swordkill didn't make a thread where I purposly drew badly I doubt I'd even be here writing this. In the 2007 thread, no one is going to be intimidated by how well you guys draw sometimes. I don't want to get back into drawing really nicely and doing some serious roleplay story stuff, I'd much rather just draw quick and have fun and laughs. You're welcome to draw however you want, as I said before. Nobody will judge you if you draw stickmen or if you draw really quickly. But, just being on the internet in general, you have to get used to seeing people who are better artists than you. If you just hide from that and make threads so that everyone has to bring their art down to a level that you're comfortable with, then you're not even really taking part in the community. I've never seen SPB as an art community, I've seen it as a bunch of friends who just have fun drawing their guy kicking the shit out of the other guy, some people draw awesome pictures, and I'm still impressed by them, I can still draw, SPB is an art community. It has always been an art community. People on SPB have always been getting better at drawing and working on their art to get better. That's why so many veterans and old members at this point have a much, much higher level of skill in drawing from when they started here. They care about their drawings. Yes, it started out where everyone was just drawing stickmen with accessories on them beating eachother up, but the community was never static in the general progression of their art skills. Maybe you guys felt like that, but even in the early days of SPB people were pushing themselves to get better. But I don't find it as fun or as hilarious as the shit that goes down in the 2007 thread. I like it because I don't have to spend forever drawing or getting deeply involved in the story, I can just turn up and get a picture out in like 10 minutes. I'm having fun in there. Do you know how rare it is for us to get 'deeply involved' in the story of a thread? City-Wide is the first actually story-driven thread we've had since the zombie thread. Tons of threads were just about drawing quickly and getting things over with, but that didn't mean drawing with as little effort in as little time as possible. Just look at 1 Week Battle, it was the longest Main Arena thread and there were usually plenty of people participating, but that didn't always mean putting their absolute minimum effort into all their drawings. The 2007 thread is not a gigantic fun riot where everybody on SPB is jumping in and beating eachother up. It's you, Swordkill, Bulet, and Virus posting really quickly with a few other people occasionally throwing something in. I understand that Shackles is pissed by the I MISS YOU GUYS and the MSPB IS DEAD/DYING THREADS. I can see why, it must be annoying seeing those while you're still around and it's not dead to you, but I don't really care how strongly you believe it's not dead or dying, because as someone who hasn't been around for years, I KNOW it's either dead or dying. And that upsets me, I don't want to see it die, but there's so few or you now, like Swordkill said, I could probably count all the people who still post here on my fingers. If you hate those threads, then do something about it, get the word out, tell people. [glow=red,2,300]Advertise.[/glow] Alright, first of all, do not put words into my mouth. I know this place is dead just as much as anybody else. However, unlike you dudes, that doesn't mean I come around here to wallow in nostalgia for the old days of SPB, because that is just as unrealistic and pathetic as believing this place is still alive and running. You are acting like getting one member here gives you the authority to tell everybody else to get up and do something. There are plenty of people making an effort to bring this place back, and they've been around trying to support SPB and keep it going for years while you guys just disappeared into the shadows.
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Post by Shackles on Mar 14, 2012 17:43:33 GMT -5
But this is turning into a "ZOMG!!! THIS PLACE IS GONNA DIE!!!" thread. I'm just saiyan all good things must come to an end - and I salute it. Thus the Big Boss image. ;-;7 I'm not being an elitist dick and saying that you should all be HURRDURR DRAW BETTER, I'm saying that it's pointless to make countless threads and posts being nostalgic about how great it used to be and how dead it is now when all of the people saying things like that are partly at fault just by not participating and only coming around to preach about how awesome it was back in 2007 when nobody gave a shit and just posted every half-hour. Everybody gets the message. Everybody wishes it was more active here. It's only worsening the situation when there's a large handful of people who come on here EXCLUSIVELY to post about OH THE EARLY DAYS OF SPB, SUCH A WONDERFUL AND IRREPLACEABLE YEAR AND A HALF! This is a drawing roleplay forum, and nobody is going to verbally rape you if you just draw the way you want to. If you liked the way it was when people just drew stuff quickly and posted within an hour of the previous person, then do that, nothing is stopping you, but flooding the place with posts about how slow it is and how great everything was years ago vs. how slow and boring it is now is having a negative effect. Edit: Also, this STARTED as a "ZOMG!!! THIS PLACE IS GONNA DIE!!!" thread. But Shackles, stop pretending it's anything more than a rabble of chums. I am not pretending shit. SPB may be a small community, and I probably know 99% of the users on here personally, just as most people do, but it would be nothing less than a step into complete mental retardation to just start throwing new threads around with topics that could easily fit within the random thread. Seriously, do you have any idea how many people have posted over and over and over about how dead this place is in there? Go there if you want to keep whining about how dead SPB is there and how it'll never return to its former glory. "The Random Thread's purpose for existing is to corral people who aren't planning on doing anything productive into a central area where they can socialize." It sounds as though you're implying this place is a sprawling community, when it's more like a bro's secret club. Especially now, when there hasn't been a grudge match post in a month, and I could probably count the number of active users on my two hands No, I'm IMPLYING that flooding the chat section with your stupid threads that consist of one or two sentences is the exact reason that the Random Thread exists. If every time someone thought up a new topic to socialize about made a thread about it, we'd get a new Chit-Chat thread every day that'd get 3 or 4 posts then die. Seriously, didn't you learn about this when people were yelling at you about making a thread where you just said you were posting from your new iPod? Why be formal and systematic? What made the MS Paint Brawl great was simple idiotic wingit improvisations. It was snappy and nobody built a freaking hierarchy or planned a video game. My post is pretty much the old brawling way. BLOO BLOO PEOPLE ARE ALL PUTTING EFFORT INTO THEIR DRAWINGS AND I FEEL LEFT OUT BECAUSE I'M ONLY WILLING TO DRAW A PICTURE THAT TAKES TWENTY MINUTES OUT OF MY DAY. Grow up, seriously. You're in an art community, it doesn't count as a 'hierarchy' when people are encouraging others to put time and effort into what they do. If you're referring to the Artist Rankings thread, that was deleted a long time ago. Also, are you seriously complaining about the SPB Game? Even if nobody could actually animate for that, what is wrong with a community of people who make art trying to collaborate on a project? Seriously, you and your 'secret bro club' are obviously making an active effort to discourage people from getting better at drawing. You only come around here to bitch and moan about how great SPB was when nobody put time into their drawings, then make threads about putting no effort into your drawings. You're welcome to draw however you want, but it is absolutely pathetic to discourage artists from putting time and effort into their work just because you miss it when 3 people could fill up a 5 page thread in a couple of days or when everyone was at the same general level in terms of drawing. You act like posting 30-minute drawings is the solution to the inactivity, but honestly that is a steaming pile of crap. Yeah, we could have tons and tons of threads with tons and tons of pages if we had like 5 people alternating between posting completely effortless doodles all day, but that's not the same as having an actual community of people who want to grow as artists and have fun doing character roleplaying.
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Post by Shackles on Mar 13, 2012 21:38:00 GMT -5
Apparently your blind nostalgia and moping about how dead this place is deserved its own thread. Actually, why don't we let the other 35 people who constantly complain about how slow SPB is to make their own threads? Why keep it all in the random thread where it belongs? And it'd definitely be way too much to ask that you type more than a sentence and a half for the original post, (even though this course of action was clearly extremely well thought-out) wouldn't it?
Sarcasm aside, seriously, shut up. The Random Thread's purpose for existing is to corral people who aren't planning on doing anything productive into a central area where they can socialize. If half the people who just come on here and bitch all day about how slow this place is actually drew something once in a while, this place would be hugely more active.
Reason for Editing: typo
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Post by Shackles on Feb 11, 2012 15:32:50 GMT -5
I have an idea let's make it so at least once every week someone makes a comment on how the forum is slow even though it is obvious to everybody and while complaining about it you are only contributing to the lack of productivity.
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Post by Shackles on Feb 9, 2012 20:21:37 GMT -5
I've already done this. For some reason, it doesn't want to upload my picture. As to the roster situation, is it alright if I do something similar to FA's RHG Page format? You might want to try a different uploader. Also, don't put the 'img' tags in the avatar URL, just put the URL in that field. It's been a while since I've seen the RHG profiles, but as far as I remember, they're pretty close to what most people do with their rosters, so that should be fair game.
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Post by Shackles on Feb 9, 2012 20:14:03 GMT -5
Anyway, I'm kind of hazy on how to make a roster. Can I get some help? For rosters, I'd suggest lurking the roster section a bit to get a good idea of what the dealio is. Basically the standard is that you make a character, of course, then in their profile you include a drawing of them, their name, any abilities/weapons they have (powers are optional, not all characters have superpowers). A description of the character's past are also typically used, but that's also optional, as is anything else. You can go pretty free-form with it, just make sure that the powers/abilities are clearly understood and you have a pic of the character, then you're pretty much good. EDIT: Also, I can't upload an avatar for some reason... Go to the Profile tab at the top of the page, then from there select "Modify Profile", then from there you can scroll down a bit and there should be a place to put an avatar URL. Also, a bit below that, make sure to change the Avatar Width and Avatar Height to '100' if you want it to be at its full size.
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Post by Shackles on Feb 9, 2012 19:31:52 GMT -5
Quick question, (to Shackles, I guess, since he's the only one who hasn't made a rude comment. (not including Balto's statement.) ) am I able to use Flash to draw battles? I understand that this is Super PAINT Brawl, but my MSPaint doesn't have that kick-ass pixel-y effect that most peoples battles have, so I figured I'd just use Flash. Is that alright? You're welcome to draw in any program. We're not restricted to MSpaint here, even though most members use it. We have a lot of people who use Photoshop, SAI, Flash, and probably other programs. Also, assuming you're talking about Windows 7 Paint, you can turn the anti-aliasing off. I'm not completely positive how, since I've never used it, but if you'd want to, we have members here that could probably help in that department.
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Post by Shackles on Feb 9, 2012 18:06:53 GMT -5
I'll have my Exterminatus at the ready.. It happened. They're in our forums. Abandon all hope. Before someone else posts like this, please at least give the guy the opportunity to hang around for a bit before you start being douchebags. We have MLP fans here already. Some of them are SPB veterans. Get your shit used to it. I already explained that being an MLP fan is all hunky-dory, just that overdoing it might get on people's bad side, but this person has made two posts, and it is 100% not okay to start being negative to someone as new as that.
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Post by Shackles on Feb 7, 2012 22:41:12 GMT -5
Hey, I'm going to start working on a picture that pretty much only affects anyone inside the Santanic Church (particularly Hellion, Hellion's minion, Bloodlust, Chief, Messiah, and charred skeleton), but I'm not really going to have much opportunity to be on the computer and I'm planning on it being a pretty lengthy comic, so expect it to take a while and let me know if there was something you wanted to do with the Church ahead of time.
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Post by Shackles on Feb 3, 2012 0:05:45 GMT -5
Who the heck are you?- I am AveragePony! (Don't hate.) Is there anything else you would like to say about yourself?- I like the show My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. Deal with it. Hey, welcome to SPB and all, but, assuming you aren't trolling/being sarcastic, that kind of attitude will likely get you disliked around here pretty quickly. We have a couple of MLP fans here, but the whole "I'M A PONY, DEAL WITH IT" attitude is obnoxious and annoying, and I'm sure most people, MLP fan or not, would not approve of that kind of behavior.
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Post by Shackles on Jan 3, 2012 20:44:05 GMT -5
update
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Post by Shackles on Dec 25, 2011 7:23:11 GMT -5
I think Angel is the only one I've seen that works good, but it's usually just because all of us just end up fighting for her (likely) virginity. Or at least ONE kiss. Good luck getting into her pants when you don't know her name. *Messiah. Post of the year. Way to pull though in the end, man.
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Bah.
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Post by Shackles on Dec 22, 2011 23:36:51 GMT -5
Inb4 some dumbass tells everyone to stop derailing this thread.
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Post by Shackles on Dec 18, 2011 3:40:45 GMT -5
A bit underneath where you put the URL for the avatar, there's "Avatar Height" and then "Avatar Width". Put 100 in both of those and that should fix the problem.
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Post by Shackles on Dec 11, 2011 16:38:07 GMT -5
This is Super 8 year old ninja. He can fire energy bolts that can either burn, stun, freeze or inflict massive damage randomly. His sword is unbreakable and very strong but stops him from moving when he uses it. Also he carries a flintlock pistol for use in emergencies. Hey, welcome to SPB. You should head over to the Introduction Thread and tell us a bit about yourself, then check out the Fighting Roster section and post a new topic with a profile for your brawler. Also, if you want to post images, try heading to an image uploading site. Just browse for the image you want to upload, then copy the URL under "Link image directly", then in your post just paste that URL and put image tags around it. It should look like this, but remove the *'s. [img*]URL GOES HERE[/img*]
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Post by Shackles on Dec 9, 2011 21:06:53 GMT -5
Once again, sorry for the wait. My parents decided it was time to inconveniently take my computer away when I got to the second-to-last panel, so I didn't get much more time to work on it. That's also why I was extremely lazy with the last panel.
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Post by Shackles on Dec 5, 2011 17:14:14 GMT -5
That seems more like a personality than a sort, Ghost. I think Ghost just wants a category that specifically suits his character.
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