Great idea, but I don't have time to make news. I already make news updates for 3 sites and update one.

Alvin van Asselt wrote on 02/25/08 at 05:45:49:


Alvin, you dont have to mention that you write the news for three and that is why you can't do it, no one was asking you too, it was more a volunteer option if you could do it.  

Darius, I've been thinking about it and I am starting to get to the vision that the combined page should be the "hub" so to speak and that the other sites be the offshoots in more depth. I like the concept that as a site and a community we have spanned over 10 years and that some players play all games and that is encouraged (combined chart).

I am sure that if we placed more emphasis on the combined charts as being credible and something to aspire to be on top of then it would encourage all of the new mkwii players to pick up previous iterations of the series.

The mksc site is getting to a level where I intended it to get, there are a few more nice additions to the mksc site that need doing (re-doing standards, looking at sc's or something and a few more tricks up my sleeve), as well as getting a few more staff on board - but people are happy to. So I might have some more time on my hands. I am thinking whether I should spend some time spec'ing up a proposal for a MKCombined site which I (and maybe you Darius) could work on updating somehow.

All of this is just initial thought and opinion, i'm sure most people wont care about it or share my vision but hey, i dont think it would do any harm..

I think the combined MK charts should have more focus shined on them as well. I keep up with all the MKs in terms of new WRs, new PRs, new shortcuts etc etc. and I like to think I could maybe have a stab at writing updates for the combined MK chart if that were to come to fruition. Of course a sense of clarity should be kept on each player's activities, but a slightly more overviewy style of writing might be needed to take in the scope of covering all 5/6 MKs.

I say we can't have the combined page as a "hub" yet, Tom.  It's a great idea to try to do something like that, but first all the stubborn folks related to MK64 and the combined page need to get with the program and spruce up their pages a bit like the other MK games.  If MK64 and the combined page both had that "look" we could probably make the combined page update automatically off the data from the others (am I right here Mr. Code Ninja?)  then we could even reassign all the MK64 pages to mariokart64.com/mk64 and leave the new super cool combined charts as a page styled like the 4 other games, with information links about the sites in general etc on just mariokart64.com...making a "hub" like you envisioned, and making it clear to all visitors that we have 5 (hopefully soon to be 6) pages running here, not just mariokart64.

Hi Tom,

Yes discuss with Mark and Alex and see wht they say. I suppose something like an overview news might be good, as someone mentioned with the individual kart news pages having their current depth. Maybe something listing new world records or major news headlines...

Again finding the person to do this and stick to it on a regular basis aswell, not worth it if it is left for weeks here and there...

Hi Robin, you must be getting tired because you have taken the preceeding posts slightly out of context and read into it what you will.

The only reason I was suggesting to change the mk64 site was if that was a barrier stopping development on the combined site. Which would've made sense to bring it into line with the rest of the sites.

There is nothing wrong with the current mk64 site, as you say, it functions fine and there are plenty of staff on hand to update regularly. If you read above no one says there isn't.. dont get defensive.

imho - the site does now feel like the black sheep of the sites and as it is situated where the main domain is it impacts the traffic flow. If as said above that domain name www.mariokart64.com became the hub and the site was moved to ww.mariokart64.com/mk64 i personally think it would make more sense.

Anyway, back to ontop - if what Robin says is true and its all automatically taken then I am not sure what is stopping us developing the current site.

It seems we have at least three or four people prepared to help and/or update.
Darius, Ben, Sean and myself.

Alex, I understand what the lads were saying about ability to see movement within the combined rankings page, is this something we could develop or is it something hidden which is already there?

To some degree I imagine the written updates would largely be cherry picking the news from the 5 (soon to be 6) sites and that would give you an indication of movement. Something more stat based would be helpful..

Just playing out in my mind how this could/would work.. thoughts, suggestions etc welcome and encouraged

[Robin - no beef yeh?]

I was thinking about awards, my thought was that someone on the staff for mkc might pick the pow from the people who were awards pow on the individual sites..

i.e if the awards that week were
smk: sean b
mksc: pierre
mkdd: vince
mk64: mj
mkds: bolton

Then the mkc would pick the one of the 5 which was most worthy.. food for thought. I'm trying to catch AP on IM but he's probably sleeping.

The Gaff wrote on 02/27/08 at 04:18:04:


I don't see why it needs to be one of the 5.  What if someone just barely misses POW on all 5 sites in the same week?  Then he would obviously deserve the combined POW.

Also, if this is to become a central page, then it should include everyone even if they have only played one game.

Honko wrote on 02/29/08 at 10:30:24:

I agree totally with you, it shouldn't be hard to factor in the one game only people...

Didn't want to start a new topic over this, so bumping this one:

http://www.mariokart64.com/combinedranks/

No update since July 18th? I thought it got updated once per month, bimonthly at worst?

At least update it before Xmas. Or before I move in 8 days...