A bit of Organization in the Skyrim Mod Requests?

[blakfyr999]

I'm not here to whine about how my mod didn't get made into a fully-featured Skyrim mod, complete with front-page exposure and YouTube vids. I should say that to start. I'm here instead to whine about the other members who might actually have great ideas, but threads pop-up so often that it's ridiculous how short a great idea may stay on the first page.

 

I get the general rule of thumb for that forum: If your mod is worth making, there will be a discussion, thus bumped to the front, and yada-ya~

 

I just know that buried beneath that pile of ultimate rubbish, there lie many gems, that a designer may love to fulfill. [Personally, I was hoping someone would acknowledge my request for Team Magma from Pokemon armor. Ultimate yes right there].

 

Anyways, I've sorta come up with a solution, and it's rough, I'm aware, but why would I be posting here if my intent wasn't to mold this idea a bit more with the help of the community? My idea is simple: A pinned post by an admin. Maybe certain topics that fit a certain criteria can be added to this pinned post [by an admin, ofc], and organized enough that a bored modder may waddle along and read through this list. The post can be separated by category.

 

Do I think this list would fill up awful fast? Yes, of course it would. The Mod Request forum is a bit active, to say the least.

Do I think this would be a heavy job for an admin? No, not really. Checking the forum each day or so, singling out posts that don't fit some type of limitation or criteria shouldn't be so hard. Adding it to a list would be just, finding the category, giving it a name, linking it, and being done.

 

However, I'm just throwing this out, because I don't like to see other folks possibly great ideas thrown out the window and ignored because that board is so...unapproachable.

[simtam]

I see, but the boards here are generally searchable with full-text search, or by browsing pages, so it is not like the modders are left without a tool to mine for those precious gems of mod requests which are buried there. Especially with help of people promoting good ideas. Or are they not? How do you modders search for ideas...?

[blakfyr999]

I see, but the boards here are generally searchable with full-text search, or by browsing pages, so it is not like the modders are left without a tool to mine for those precious gems of mod requests which are buried there. Especially with help of people promoting good ideas. Or are they not? How do you modders search for ideas...?

 

Searching is not the same thing as browsing. I'm talking something totally different.

[Lisnpuppy]

I can appreciate this and perhaps could see consideration for a separation of topics like textures or new weapons or armors...but going in and putting old request into the categories would probably never happen. However I wouldn't mind seeing categories made for new request that way a modder who has no interest in quest mods could look only in the textures categories or what have you.

[Shadeybladey]

If people subscribe to the forum, they get an e-mail every time someone posts a mod request.

 

~.~

[blakfyr999]

I can appreciate this and perhaps could see consideration for a separation of topics like textures or new weapons or armors...but going in and putting old request into the categories would probably never happen. However I wouldn't mind seeing categories made for new request that way a modder who has no interest in quest mods could look only in the textures categories or what have you.

 

This is exactly what I was hoping a mod would say. I already realized that, and figured those topics are, sadly, lost as far as this idea. But better to start late than never indexing new ideas~ Thank you for seeing what I meant ;~;

 

 

If people subscribe to the forum, they get an e-mail every time someone posts a mod request.

 

~.~

 

Again, this isn't exactly a solution

[daventry]

Do what i do, make a List of your Requests in a Thread, then put the Link of that Thread as your Signature where Members will go and have a look.

 

Trust me, Half the Requests ive been asking has been made, yet more just pop up with Ideas in my head where there are a couple of Gems (Falmer Becoming Friends) are floating in the dark.

 

The sad thing of it all is the fact that the Members expect so Big of the Requester where they just dont understand you actually get some of the Few People in the World where PC Programming is just too much because the CK is not the only thing you use.

Edited January 4, 2014 by daventry

[blakfyr999]

Do what i do, make a List of your Requests in a Thread, then put the Link of that Thread as your Signature where Members will go and have a look.

 

Trust me, Half the Requests ive been asking has been made, yet more just pop up with Ideas in my head where there are a couple of Gems (Falmer Becoming Friends) are floating in the dark.

 

The sad thing of it all is the fact that the Members expect so Big of the Requester where they just dont understand you actually get some of the Few People in the World where PC Programming is just too much because the CK is not the only thing you use.

 

That's ~helpful~ but my push behind this is so Modders can easily go to the forum, and browse ideas without having to search page through cluttered page.

If I were to ever get into mod developing [something I'd LOVE to], that's how I'd like it, personally.

[blakfyr999]

Do what i do, make a List of your Requests in a Thread, then put the Link of that Thread as your Signature where Members will go and have a look.

 

Trust me, Half the Requests ive been asking has been made, yet more just pop up with Ideas in my head where there are a couple of Gems (Falmer Becoming Friends) are floating in the dark.

 

The sad thing of it all is the fact that the Members expect so Big of the Requester where they just dont understand you actually get some of the Few People in the World where PC Programming is just too much because the CK is not the only thing you use.

 

The point of my idea is kinda high-flying above your head man. Maybe you should re-read my post and my comments to get a better grasp of what I'm talking about.

[DrakeTheDragon]

Hmm, you make it sound as if there was an entire army of unemployed mod authors hanging around here desperately searching for ideas what they could create next.

 

Usually the authors hanging around here are here because they're already working on something of their own ideas and want to share their progress or final creations.

Some also aim to gather feedback to their initial plans or ideas on how to refine them further. (I'm one of those, so I know they exist.)

 

The number of mod authors 'not' working on anything of their own volition already and instead only waiting for an interesting request they could fulfill to come up actually is indefinitely small in comparison.

 

Don't get me wrong, I'm all for better organization and/or categorization even for such insignificant-in-comparison things as mod requests. (Well, who am I kidding? I myself loved to fulfill requests which were of interest to me whenever I needed a welcome distraction from my usual projects, or at least when I was still able to do that amount of modding in my free time.) But just so you know, you already managed to lash out at and offend a good number of those select few who actually may have been able to fulfill your requests or those of others.

 

The thing is, they were totally right. If there are authors desperately searching for ideas they could make real, they will go as far as down to the last page with unread posts on it, to not miss anything potentially valuable to them, or they will even have subscribed to the mod requests forums of their interest as well already.

But those who aren't, you can be bloody sure, won't even look at the first page of the requests forum to begin with, and will never even notice any changes to its organization done inside.

 

People seem to have an entirely wrong grasp of the whole Mod Requests idea recently. Sure you can post your ideas inside there, and sure 'some' of them are taken up by interested authors and made real, but it's not like there's an entire Mod Request Force standing ready for any new requests coming up and they need to be totally made aware of your request or it'll never be taken up. As a matter of fact, most requests never will, but not because nobody is aware of them, because who is interested in fulfilling mod requests also knows how to find the ones of interest to himself, but because simply only very few are of interest to the select few authors randomly checking in there in search for new ideas.

 

Posting a request in there and 'expecting' to get a response from an author jumping in in joy to make it real in only a short time is totally delusional. Yet an incredibly huge number of requestees seems to think that's the way it's going to be. And they slowly start to annoy and scare away the select few authors actually checking in there from time to time already, until there's nobody left interested in fulfilling the wishes of those "My ideas are the very best and everybody totally has to make them real!!"-kind of folks anymore, who in most cases additionally fail to realize their proposed ideas are either 'impossible' to achieve in the game they're asking for, or at least incredibly hard and complex and can only be done by a select few authors at all, who are also already working on their own projects in the meantime.

 

That said, I'm all for categorizing Mod Requests further. But don't underestimate the incredible amount of work your proposed idea means for the only 6 staff members to sift through and sort all mod requests of all games there are and will be in the future, while the actual number of these keeps exponentially rising with each day. Let's not forget they have other, more important tasks to fulfill as well besides of this little feature which will only benefit a tiny fracture of the member base to begin with.