I still think it's too early for standards, look at all the new strats people find these days.

I agree completely about the Rivalries, I noticed them when I first came here and I'd like to see them added.

Like the ideas.

Standards definitely should be added. We know the game well enough now and I don't see the game getting more active than it is now in the future tbh. It's now or never. MK8 will wipe us out most likely.

I've always wanted rivalries and when I saw the thread title I was hoping it'd be mentioned. I'd like to be in one with some close friends too, would be a great thing to add

I could help with news updates, but if so I want maybe 1-2 others to help me so I wouldn't have to do it every single week. I'd be fine with writing them once in a while though.

People are retards if they think that it's still too early for standards. I mean, look at my old standards(you can actually look the GODs up on the standards page, they were added but never contributed to ARR yet). NONE of them got accomplished yet even though we found lots of new strats. Most of them would still look reasonable, even if they were pre-standards and still up for change.

We are definately ready for standards.

Nicola wrote on 07/03/13 at 12:41:26:


I can write news updates, but obviously given my current situation I could end up not being able to do so all of a sudden. On the other hand, from september onwards I won't have that problem.

40pegh wrote on 07/03/13 at 14:52:58:


It's not laziness. It's hard when you're the only person in charge of news updates and you are also under exams. I've asked if somebody wanted to become a news updater several times but I never got an answer until today.
I wasn't even a news updater, I stepped up myself when I noticed there was an absolute need of it.

There's no reason to insult me.

Another idea I had would be on everyone's profile to add a category (or just remove other info since its not really used) is to add something called 'Common Mii Name'

Pretty much an indicator of who everyone is if they go by something other than their name in the community

Rookie wrote on 07/03/13 at 19:53:12:

Once when I was bored I used the 'other info' bit to do exactly this with a few people I knew. I also spent a while finding out people's nicknames for one of my news updates too

On that note: Jacob, the lack of news updates does not indicate laziness, although it may seem that way. Writing a single news update takes at least 3 hours, and the first one I wrote took about 8. It's not just laziness, but more lack of motivation and availability of time to be able to put in this amount of work week in week out. News writers for other pages are extremely dedicated to their game and sub-community, and basically we're just unfortunate to not have someone with the same characteristics here. One key thing that would reduce the time to write a news article is a stats page, which MK7 lacks, though I believe at one point Nicola asked Penev on the staff's behalf to make one, but I don't know what happened concerning that.

Nosey wrote on 07/04/13 at 04:22:37:


When I revived the strong/weak WR discussion thread, it took me 3 hours to gather all my thoughts about 32 tracks (and the 7 glitched ones) and make a final conclusion, and then type it all into words.  I think I could update the news in, at most, 2 hours, especially if the last update was recent.  Also, I see so many unnecessary words added in when they shouldn't, which is probably why it takes so many people a ridiculous amount of time.  

For example, "The first active player is the Champion, #1 Adrian Dorado. Adro improved many times to defend himself from the assaults of #2 Alejandro Muhsen, who sent in six new times to cut 0.4 AF points. Adro drove five times and cut 0.3 points, less than Alexony, but it was enough to stay in front of him."  This is very long already.  How about:  #1 Adrian Dorado drove five times and cut 0.3 AF, enough to stay ahead of #2 Alejandro Muhsen, who sent 6 times to cut 0.4   And really, once you get to the players that aren't top 10, you should just list the player's name, position, AF cut, and how many PR's they sent. Aka, get rid of complete sentences.

An update could probably get done in 1 hour (and that's without a stats page) by focusing your mind to making everything as short as possible.  I don't see why the news update has to be written professionally, unless for some reason it's required.  All I want to see when I look at a news update is basic information about all the improvements that happened.

Also, I hate this lack of motivation excuse.  Lee and Danny did it perfectly from August 2012 till both of them gave up the game and therefore lost interest.  There's no reason that a group of 2-4 people can't do this.  Both Danny and Lee did it knowing they had to do it, no matter how busy their lives were.  And most importantly, I think both of them enjoyed updating the news, so there actually was motivation.

Btw, the more people take the role of news updater, the less stress that is upon all the writers.  Lee and Danny still did it perfectly even when it just the 2 of them, but could you imagine 10 people?  That means an individual gets to update five times a year.  Hmm, not that hard anymore is it?  Plus, the more people, the more backups there are in case one of the writers is too busy and can't update.  It's too bad hardly anyone steps up to becoming a news writer

Rookie wrote on 07/04/13 at 12:32:28:


Updating after an almost 2 month hiatus, probably is going to take forever.  Updating a week after the last update, no, that doesn't take long, especially for someone that can type fast. I'm pretty sure every single person isn't improving every single week.

Nicola wrote on 07/04/13 at 12:40:18:


That's pretty much the reason I expected for making the news longer.  It's an understandable reason, and I'm just trying to suggest ideas that could make updating less of a pain.  Even if the news went by my idea, you would still fulfill the job of updating the news, and I'd rather take a bland and unprofessional update than nothing.  Right now, I of course know why we haven't been getting any updates, but in the future when our new news writers can't find enough time, maybe they can go with my suggestions.

That is an interesting question.  It could be seen as pointless to some people by listing chart movements, but at the same time listing all the movements would make the news feel more complete.

Nicola wrote on 07/04/13 at 13:07:39:


That's what we should be doing in the first place.  It goes with the, "more people = less stress," that I stated before, ensuring that the news is beautifully done without the cost of so many hours brought upon one individual.