Official Zelda Dungeon Suggestions Thread

[MrMosley]

This thread is where you, the Zelda Dungeon Forum community, can post your ideas (or responses to other's ideas) about what you think we should do here at the forums or even at the main site. Our goal is to get a view of what our regular members here would like to see added, changed, or even removed from the site or forums. Not all suggestions will be carried out, but they will be reviewed and taken into consideration by our staff members. Hopefully, this thread will prove beneficial to all those here at Zelda Dungeon. The only thing I ask is that the suggestions posted, as well as responses to those suggestions, are reasonable and serious. Also, make sure to include whether it is a suggestion for the main site or the forums.

[Dr3W21]

Hmm. I know you have all been working on this, but I'd like to see more video walkthroughs on this site. Yay 1st comment! kinda.

[Hierarch7]

Hello forum and reviewers to the Zelda Dungeon community,
I've noticed that the setup for the new version of the layout, included a white and blue background. This background is a nice new addition, however, it makes for a fairly unpleasant forum experience. Some avatars and profile pictures seem like they are not compatable to the new changes. Many forums online have a plain and bland white backrounds for forums and threads. I think keeping simply just the old version's more subtle brown background keeps signatures and posts more vibrant and easy on the eyes.

*I'm not entirely sure if it was a computer bug on my part, but when I loaded the new layout, my avatar dissappeared.

* Thanks for listing the optional backgrounds below, I didn't notice them =p


Many Thanks,

[Justin]

Hello forum and reviewers to the Zelda Dungeon community,
I've noticed that the setup for the new version of the layout, included a white and blue background. This background is a nice new addition, however, it makes for a fairly unpleasant forum experience. Some avatars and profile pictures seem like they are not compatable to the new changes. Many forums online have a plain and bland white backrounds for forums and threads. I think keeping simply just the old version's more subtle brown background keeps signatures and posts more vibrant and easy on the eyes.

Many Thanks,

What do you mean by not compatible? Also, we do have a few themes you can choose at the bottom for the forums.

http://img35.imageshack.us/img35/2402/changeskin.png

Also, we may add more forum themes in the future. If you have a color preference for a forum theme, we would like to hear it. If you have any ideas for a plugin/addon, we do have a personal programmer/developer, and may add it if we find it to be beneficial.

[Master Kokiri 9]

To be honest, I'd like some Secret pages on the main site to include stuff like Cameos and Easter Eggs. After all, I think it'd be cool and it's definately something I'd be interested in.

[Jetter]

I think the reputation points should come back so the people can say what they want.

[MrMosley]

I think the reputation points should come back so the people can say what they want.

The reputation system is still here. You give positive or negative rep by clicking the "star" icon on a person's postbit (left, bottom side of their post).

[Pocket Asian]

This is from the Zelda Dungeon Forum FAQ:

There is a legend near the bottom of the site in the 'What's Going On' section. The Webmasters are the overlords over the Zelda Dungeon website. The Administrators are the ones in charge of ZD Forums. Super Moderators can moderate any section of the forum, as well as the Shoutbox. Moderators are in charge of making sure everything runs smoothly within the topic threads and the Shoutbox. Hylian Knights are distinguished members for being loyal forum users, or just simply great members of the community. Hylian Nobles are the highest ranking members of ZD Forums and are represented as the leaders of the forum community.

For more information on the Hylian Knight and Hylian Noble rankings, click the link below:

http://zeldadungeon.net/forum/showthread.php?t=4572
Is the link referenced in this quote the thread that explains about the requirements for Hylian Knights and Nobles? Every time I click the link, it'll say I don't have the right permissions to view it. If it is, could the permissions be switched so regular members can view this information? This is assuming that regular members can't view it.

If not, then I think a thread about the requirements for Hylian Knights and Hylian Nobles should be somewhere in the forum. I've seen some regular members ask the higher ranked people on how to get the promotions and I feel a thread about it could prevent questions like that and/or any future spammy threads in the Community Forum section.

[MrMosley]

This is from the Zelda Dungeon Forum FAQ:

Is the link referenced in this quote the thread that explains about the requirements for Hylian Knights and Nobles? Every time I click the link, it'll say I don't have the right permissions to view it. If it is, could the permissions be switched so regular members can view this information? This is assuming that regular members can't view it.

If not, then I think a thread about the requirements for Hylian Knights and Hylian Nobles should be somewhere in the forum. I've seen some regular members ask the higher ranked people on how to get the promotions and I feel a thread about it could prevent questions like that and/or any future spammy threads in the Community Forum section.

Actually, that is in need of updating. The thread that did explain those requirements has since been deleted as those requirements have changed. Soon, we'll post a new thread with this same information. I'll go ahead and remove the link.

[Zeruda]

Maybe it doesn't matter, but I think the colors for the usergroups should be toned down. The Administrator red image isn't so bad, but the Hylian Noble green is very, very bright and hurts my eyes. Maybe just tone the green down a bit?

[zack125]

I have a suggestion for the site itself.

I was thinking maybe of a review system where users can submit their reviews for a Zelda game. If that's too much, maybe the staff should write the reviews.

[MetaPwn]

Remeber when the old site would have posts and if you looked very closely there was a faint pattern or design as the background? I would like to see that back because all this white and blue seems... empty

[Jetter]

I really think we should do stuff that involves other zelda sites so all Zelda fans can Comunicate.

[Ooccoo Watcher]

For the main site I think it would look better if the news was more towards the center, as opposed to the extreme left.

[LANZZ]

I'd like to see many upgrade and content add for the main site:-

1) 'Four Swords' (GBA) guides and walkthrough.

2) 'Four Swords Adventure' (GC) guides and walkthrough.

3) Spin-off and other Zelda games section.
- Link's Crossbow Training
- Navi Tracker
- Tingle's Balloon Fight DS
- Freshly-Picked Tingle's Rosy Rupeeland
- Color Changing Tingle's Love Balloon Trip
- Too Much Tingle Pack
- BS The Legend of Zelda
- BS The Legend of Zelda: The Ancient Stone Tablets
- CD-I Zelda - Link: The Faces of Evil
- CD-I Zelda - Zelda: The Wand of Gamelon
- CD-I Zelda - Zelda's Adventure
- Zelda Game Watch
- Zelda Game & Watch

4) Fan Games section.
- http://zeldadungeon.net/forum/showthread.php?7710-Let-s-Trying-This-Game..........

5) Secret and easter egg page for every games.

I hope Zelda dungeon will have all of this in the future.... :)

:) PLEASE GIVE ME A FEEDBACK....

[Justin]

For the main site I think it would look better if the news was more towards the center, as opposed to the extreme left.

What do you mean exactly? The news & side bar are centered. Would it be too much to ask if you were to take a screen shot, open it in paint, and draw/point out what you mean exactly.

[Zenox]

Really, I don't think the reputation system works if people don't see a reason to give out reputation. There needs to be some sort of initiative to give out reputation. I know I don't give out rep nearly as much as I take it. I don't even recall giving rep because, really, what's the point? I don't even see a point for taking rep other than it show someone they need to be a better poster. There should be a real reason to give out rep and the rep system would work out better. I don't really know how it would work or any ideas on how to make people want to give out rep, but I think we would really benefit from it.

[February Eve]

I give out rep, but I agree that there should be more incentive to do so. Also, and I don't think I'm doing it wrong, but I am not stingy with the points; I don't give them out every day but if I think a post is well thought out and really adds to the discussion (and this is a trend with the user), I'll give the points. It doesn't have to be the "best post ever!!!"

I think related to that - I think the shout box eligibility should be cleared up somewhere. I've heard it relates to age of the account/reputation, though I don't know how accurate that is - I had to ask another member I saw mention it somewhere.

[MrMosley]

^ You give out positive rep just if you want to acknowledge that person for making what, in your mind, is a good post. There is no ground rules for giving out rep and there will likely never be any since it is a system that you dictate on your own how to use. As for incentives, there aren't many things that can be "given out" here at the forums currently for gaining good rep. However, Hylian Knight and Hylian Noble status take reputation points into account. That isn't the only thing, there are many other requirements that are involved in selecting those people to be nominated for the status, but rep is one of them.

[Master Kokiri 9]

Another new suggestion. A General Game Help section in the forums for non Zelda games, like SMG2 or Metroid for example.

[Majora'sMask98]

i was thinking... maybe a video walkthrough for Majora's Mask ?? Im not sure, its up to the staff though

[February Eve]

I was looking through the fanworks section today and I was wondering, is it possible to tag a post in the fanworks section with the author's/artist's name? I was looking for someone's stories the other day and that would have helped out. Is this even feasible and if so, do you think this might be a good practice or should it be up to the poster?

Thanks for all the work you guys do on the site to make it such an enjoyable place to be. :)

[Justin]

I was looking through the fanworks section today and I was wondering, is it possible to tag a post in the fanworks section with the author's/artist's name? I was looking for someone's stories the other day and that would have helped out. Is this even feasible and if so, do you think this might be a good practice or should it be up to the poster?

Thanks for all the work you guys do on the site to make it such an enjoyable place to be. :)

You can add tags to any thread, so yes. When you post a a new thread, if you scroll to the bottom.

http://img295.imageshack.us/img295/3324/tags.png

There you can add author names.

[Dracomajora]

find a way to block trolls.im very serious about this.they are everywhere(well only gamer x and his many fake identaties)and he is making all the comments about his petty comments saying "zelda sucks".he is causing ALOT of trouble and you need to find a way to block him.

[Epwna]

One thing I've been waiting for a while, fix the Oracle Sections. Maybe add pictures to the walkthrough, and finish the OoA walkthrough. And make the whole section more detailed and clear.

[LANZZ]

One thing I've been waiting for a while, fix the Oracle Sections. Maybe add pictures to the walkthrough, and finish the OoA walkthrough. And make the whole section more detailed and clear.

1) Yes, they also should add many other guides for OOX such as soft soil location, rings guide, Gesha nut location, and Linked game secrets.

2) You aso should add Valiant Comics and Phantom Hourglass manga in ZD Comics & manga page.

3) I found some information about other Zeldas page, in old ZD post. What happen to that page now???
- http://www.zeldadungeon.net/2007/06/the-next-zelda-zelda-bs-and-unfinished-legends/

Report:-

All links on Zelda Cartoon page was broken. I hope you can fix it....

[pauliepbaby]

Everytime I post a thread on here, it will bring me to a white page and all it says is "completed", can you guys maybe put a link or redirect us back to the forums itll make things easier?

[MrMosley]

I'd like to see many upgrade and content add for the main site:-

Most of the games you mentioned aren't really at high demand for content as in guides and such. The CD-i titles, the Game and Watch ones, stuff like that is not really an important issue that needs to be added because virtually no one requests guides on those games.

Other titles you mentioned, like Four Swords and Four Swords Adventures, are much more likely to get a guide. However, those games also do not have much of a high demand for content. I would say that in time, there's a good chance that we will add content for those such titles. But there's nothing that I know of in the works currently for them. Perhaps in the future though.


Another new suggestion. A General Game Help section in the forums for non Zelda games, like SMG2 or Metroid for example.

This is actually a very nice idea that I will probably add soon, if not in the next few minutes. It was suggested by some other people and I had honestly just forgot all about it because of so many other things that I have been working on. But it takes all in about 2 minutes to add such a feature and I do think that it would be beneficial enough.


i was thinking... maybe a video walkthrough for Majora's Mask ?? Im not sure, its up to the staff though

I believe that is either in the works or close to being in the works. A mainstream Zelda title such as that will certainly have a video walkthrough if it doesn't already. The staff is always hard at work with different projects though, so it may be a bit before some things such as this get fully completed.


One thing I've been waiting for a while, fix the Oracle Sections. Maybe add pictures to the walkthrough, and finish the OoA walkthrough. And make the whole section more detailed and clear.

I would say that in the near future, the Oracle sections will improve 150% ;)


Everytime I post a thread on here, it will bring me to a white page and all it says is "completed", can you guys maybe put a link or redirect us back to the forums itll make things easier?

It may depend on your browser or the layout you are using. If you are using a different layout other than the current one (v19), then use it instead. The older layouts won't be updated anymore, as each time our forum upgrades to a new version, the coding gets all messed up with the layouts. Since it takes a lot of time to work on such things, and since vBulletin upgrades quite often since 4.0 is still relatively new, our staff simply does not have enough time to fix the older layouts.

[LANZZ]

Most of the games you mentioned aren't really at high demand for content as in guides and such. The CD-i titles, the Game and Watch ones, stuff like that is not really an important issue that needs to be added because virtually no one requests guides on those games.

Don't need to added guides for those games, but just add other informations like box art, info, story, screenshot, or official artwork. You can added those games under one page like Other Zelda Games.

[MrMosley]

Don't need to added guides for those games, but just add other informations like box art, info, story, screenshot, or official artwork. You can added those games under one page like Other Zelda Games.

Ahh okay. Yeah that might be an alright idea that I'll keep in mind and pass along to Mases.

[xeno_9696]

this person is right they should do that XDXDXD

Another new suggestion. A General Game Help section in the forums for non Zelda games, like SMG2 or Metroid for example.

[Ember Incubus]

Umm, I am not sure if this should go here, but what about a subsection inside the fourm games for RPGs? Considering how many there is, it seems plauable in my eyes.

[miku]

Well, this is a little minor, but could potentially throw some off if not reworded; On this page of the site: http://www.zeldadungeon.net/Zelda03-a-link-to-the-past-heart-pieces.php
for heart piece #7, it says "West of the Sanctuary are a few rocks. Pick up the big one and walk down the staircase..."
It would be more accurately worded as "West of the Sanctuary is a pile of rocks. Bash into it with the Pegasus Boots and walk down the staircase..."
You can get this piece of heart before you have the power glove, and you cannot lift piles of rocks ever anyway in the game. They're for bashing into only.

It's like the running dude says: "Anyway, because you have such quick feet, it might be a good idea to run and bash into many things..."

I would however like to applaud the pieces of heart page overall, to whoever made it. The side by side maps are a very handy addition, and every piece of heart has a still of the scene. I like the page very much so.

[Chuck]

I like the whole "Other Zelda Games" page idea. I want to get all of the zelda games, and i would love to have even a few paragraphs here at zelda dungeon devoted to each spinoff.

[misskitten]

I think your game guides are great, but I have a suggestion for an improvement in the "Biggoron Sword Trading Sequence (http://www.zeldadungeon.net/Zelda05-ocarina-of-time-biggorons-sword-trading-sequence.php)" guide. The guide advices the player to go through Kakariko village and go up the mountain trail to deliver the Biggoron Eye Drops, however, this route means the player does not have much room for error time-wise.

When doing this quest I chose to ride Epona to Kokiri Village, go into the Lost Woods and enter Goron City (the passage from there to the Death Mountain Crater has to be open, of course) go from there to the Death Mountain Crater, follow the passage to the right, smash the rock on the ledge (if you haven't already, this means you have to have the hammer) jump across to the other ledge and go up the ladder and through the passage to the top of Death Mountain. When I took this route I had a 1 minute and 20 seconds to spare when I delivered the eye drops.

An alternative way to go is to go by the warp pad (using the Hookshot) and take the bean ride to the top of the mountain and go through the passage. Both are immensely time-saving when doing this quest.

[Justin]

Well, this is a little minor, but could potentially throw some off if not reworded; On this page of the site: http://www.zeldadungeon.net/Zelda03-a-link-to-the-past-heart-pieces.php
for heart piece #7, it says "West of the Sanctuary are a few rocks. Pick up the big one and walk down the staircase..."
It would be more accurately worded as "West of the Sanctuary is a pile of rocks. Bash into it with the Pegasus Boots and walk down the staircase..."
You can get this piece of heart before you have the power glove, and you cannot lift piles of rocks ever anyway in the game. They're for bashing into only.

It's like the running dude says: "Anyway, because you have such quick feet, it might be a good idea to run and bash into many things..."

I would however like to applaud the pieces of heart page overall, to whoever made it. The side by side maps are a very handy addition, and every piece of heart has a still of the scene. I like the page very much so.


I think your game guides are great, but I have a suggestion for an improvement in the "Biggoron Sword Trading Sequence (http://www.zeldadungeon.net/Zelda05-ocarina-of-time-biggorons-sword-trading-sequence.php)" guide. The guide advices the player to go through Kakariko village and go up the mountain trail to deliver the Biggoron Eye Drops, however, this route means the player does not have much room for error time-wise.

When doing this quest I chose to ride Epona to Kokiri Village, go into the Lost Woods and enter Goron City (the passage from there to the Death Mountain Crater has to be open, of course) go from there to the Death Mountain Crater, follow the passage to the right, smash the rock on the ledge (if you haven't already, this means you have to have the hammer) jump across to the other ledge and go up the ladder and through the passage to the top of Death Mountain. When I took this route I had a 1 minute and 20 seconds to spare when I delivered the eye drops.

An alternative way to go is to go by the warp pad (using the Hookshot) and take the bean ride to the top of the mountain and go through the passage. Both are immensely time-saving when doing this quest.

For the both of you! Any suggestion for walkthroughs and guides, you can go to our Contact Page (http://www.zeldadungeon.net/contact-us/) and leave a message there. This will guaranteed that the walkthrough and guide writers will get it and fix it. They usually aren't very active on the forums.



Umm, I am not sure if this should go here, but what about a subsection inside the fourm games for RPGs? Considering how many there is, it seems plauable in my eyes.

RPG's do go in the game section. As for a sub section, we can may consider it.


Thanks for all the suggestions!

[Pocket Asian]

Would it be possible to put two sub-sections in the Fan Works section?
One sub-section for works in text form such as fan fics, songs, and poems,
the other for works that are drawn, any other kind of picture, and movies or animations

[Ember Incubus]

This probably undos all of you hard work, but.... Maybe youguys should remove the REP system. All it does is make people power hungry and use their power negitivly to influence others.

[knowlee]

Umm...this is just something I've noticed recently, but when I use Internet Explorer and I go to log in, I don't see the 'Remember Me?' option. And since I can't check the box, it has me having to log back in every few minutes when sitting idle while chatting in the SB. But when I go to Mozilla Firefox and go to log in, I see the 'Remember me?' box there. I don't know why it disappeared for on IE, but it's been that way for at least a day now.

[Justin]

Umm...this is just something I've noticed recently, but when I use Internet Explorer and I go to log in, I don't see the 'Remember Me?' option. And since I can't check the box, it has me having to log back in every few minutes when sitting idle while chatting in the SB. But when I go to Mozilla Firefox and go to log in, I see the 'Remember me?' box there. I don't know why it disappeared for on IE, but it's been that way for at least a day now.

That could be a possibility if you use an Internet Explorer less then version 8. Neverless, I'll get that fixed as soon as possible. Thanks for the notification.

[Durion]

This probably undos all of you hard work, but.... Maybe youguys should remove the REP system. All it does is make people power hungry and use their power negitivly to influence others.

I completely disagree with the statement you have made Ember, you may believe that it makes people power hungry, but I don't see how. Why would having more rep make someone power hungry? Someone with high rep doesn't gain any powers from having high rep, they just gain more bars as they go along. The only thing on the forums here that will cause people to become power hungry is if they gain a position as a mod, and then want to become a super mod just so they can have the power, and to be fair, no mod here is doing that (although Axle wants to become a Super Mod, I understand his reasoning behind doing so, and I agree).

The rep system here also has several uses that you probably have never thought about to. Firstly, there is a reason that is only known by the Hylian Knight's and higher (I won't state the reason either).

The final few uses are linked. The rep system helps to tell a member whether their posting is on track or if it is rather lacklustre. If you take a look at all the members who have high rep, you'd probably notice and agree that they are some of the best posters on the forum (I'm not kissing my own behind here by the way). Especially when you see the likes of MrMosley, Zeruda, Shadsie, Ver-go-a-go-go, ChargeWithSword and many others, who are all excellent posters. Then you go to the lower end and you will see the members that all usually have the lacklustre posts around the forums. So by giving good rep, we encourage members to keep up the good posting. Whereas by giving bad rep, we are telling someone that they need to improve their posting, as it's not very good quality. Thus, by using the rep system, we are improving the forums little by little. If you want an example, Master Kokiri is one. He used to be considered a little bit spammy by some members around the forums. However, he's now a great poster and I enjoy talking to him in the shoutbox.

Personally, I want to see some changes in the Forum games section. In my opinion, a Forum Games section on a Zelda site (no matter how unrelated to the rest of the forum it is meant to be) should at least have a majority of it's threads revolve around or be linked to, in some way or another, the Legend of Zelda series. I'm sure that last time I checked through most of the threads, that a majority of them are just random threads with no connections to Zelda at all. I don't mind the fact that some theads aren't, because some are extremely good games and wouldn't work when you involved Zelda in the mix that well, such a Mafia or some of the RPG's around there.

I just think that it's quite sad that a Legend of Zelda forum has a 6th of it's post come from threads that are totally unrelated to Zelda, and that it's the second biggest forum section on the site, only beaten by the World of Zelda section, which predates the Forum Games by almost 9 years (I think anyway) and is only just larger than it.

I'd just like to see the Forum Games section become more Zelda based and have at least a majority of the threads in there related to Zelda. I just think that too many members come to the site just for the forum games, as there are several that have participated in the Forum Games section hugely, but have so little to do with the rest of the forum. I'd like to see that change.

[Zenox]

I'd like to see the Forum Games section removed. They have some different rules from the other forums, but they are very rarely enforced. And I've had arguements about it with some of the other moderators in Skype, but none of them actually moderate the forum and can't really talk. I've seen members break almost all the rules there and the other moderators say "Aww, they're fine" and they break the rule over and over and over. There are some members that have their recent posts page filled 3 or 4 pages down with just forum games. It really encourages members to not post outside there and when they do, they tend to be very bad posts as they get used to the lenient posting in the forum games section and do so outside of the forum games.

If we don't remove the forum games section, I'd at least like it more heavily moderated, or more moderators posted. On such a horrible and embarrassing part of our forums, only one moderator isn't close to enough.

[MrMosley]

If we don't remove the forum games section, I'd at least like it more heavily moderated, or more moderators posted. On such a horrible and embarrassing part of our forums, only one moderator isn't close to enough.

The Forum Games section is very popular and I don't think that just based on its content it should be removed. It is a sub-forum, so its not even out in the open for everyone to notice so easily. It is also a place where not just regular members go to post, but I have seen many times that even our forum staff post in there. With that said, I don't think its necessary at all to remove something from the forums that the majority of the people here enjoy. The fact that the section doesn't attribute to user post counts is also a big reason that its not as harmful as people seem to think. This is why the section is also not heavily moderated. Unless someone is posting porn in there or something inappropriate, then there's basically no rules broken. Since each thread would act as its own game, it would have its own rules and if the thread abides by the most basic of forum rules then its fine with me. Any problems within the section can be reported as posts or whatever if the situation is bad enough.

I do think that possibly regulating the Forum Games section's use though might be a good idea. Though I support that some people use the section a lot, I do not support that some people only come here for it. I'll try to come up with a way to maybe limit its access to certain users so that posting elsewhere will be encouraged. But that will come in time.

[Hylian Pants]

Would it be possible to put two sub-sections in the Fan Works section?
One sub-section for works in text form such as fan fics, songs, and poems,
the other for works that are drawn, any other kind of picture, and movies or animations


I definitely agree with this. Most other forums keep Lit and Visuals in seperate sub forums under fan works and it keeps things very nice and organized. It works quite well on other forums, and what with the large amount of fanfiction here, I think it would be a good to implement it.

In addition, ZD is a little unique in this department, as we have a lot of "member insert" threads and a lot of threads that are "sign ups" or conceptual preparations for a work. I think threads such as those should also get a sub section (maybe entitled "Sign Ups and Collaborations") simply because they aren't for the purpose of posting work; they're prepping for a work that hasn't actually materialized yet.

[Justin]

Umm...this is just something I've noticed recently, but when I use Internet Explorer and I go to log in, I don't see the 'Remember Me?' option. And since I can't check the box, it has me having to log back in every few minutes when sitting idle while chatting in the SB. But when I go to Mozilla Firefox and go to log in, I see the 'Remember me?' box there. I don't know why it disappeared for on IE, but it's been that way for at least a day now.

That should be fixed. If it doesn't look right or if you have problems. Please give inform us! Thanks for informing us of that little problem!

[Dracomajora]

Can you make a section for the other zelda games?Like the BS Zelda's and the spinoff's.and maybe...even...the CD-I games!(Dun dun dun!)I think it would be a good idea.

[February Eve]

I realize this may not happen for awhile, but I have a suggestion for the next live streaming activity. Have a special post where forum members can submit questions a few days beforehand and perhaps make it a little more likely for those questions to be answered than those in the live chat. It would reward forum users and give the hosts a chance to weed out some of the questions before they go live. Of course, I am sure question spammers will still be in the chat session anyway, so it won't eliminate the entire problem.

And not a suggestion, really, but a commendation - I like it when you post featured forum threads on the main page. I think that is one thing you're already doing well that encourages good discussion topics and interest in the Zelda sections of the forum.

Anyway, thanks for your hard work!

[Justin]

I realize this may not happen for awhile, but I have a suggestion for the next live streaming activity. Have a special post where forum members can submit questions a few days beforehand and perhaps make it a little more likely for those questions to be answered than those in the live chat. It would reward forum users and give the hosts a chance to weed out some of the questions before they go live. Of course, I am sure question spammers will still be in the chat session anyway, so it won't eliminate the entire problem.

And not a suggestion, really, but a commendation - I like it when you post featured forum threads on the main page. I think that is one thing you're already doing well that encourages good discussion topics and interest in the Zelda sections of the forum.

Anyway, thanks for your hard work!


That is an incredible idea! I know a lot of the staff don't visit the site on regular basis, so when we talk about performing another stream, I'll most defiantly throw that out there. The last stream we had was to increase activity on our forums and facebook! This would help with our goals! Thanks for the post!

[Destiny]

Lol, this is such a Random Suggestion. Maybe a Staff board? Where Staff could post things about them Members can ask them questions.. Blah. -Flee-

[Zenox]

The Forum Games section is very popular and I don't think that just based on its content it should be removed. It is a sub-forum, so its not even out in the open for everyone to notice so easily. It is also a place where not just regular members go to post, but I have seen many times that even our forum staff post in there. With that said, I don't think its necessary at all to remove something from the forums that the majority of the people here enjoy. The fact that the section doesn't attribute to user post counts is also a big reason that its not as harmful as people seem to think. This is why the section is also not heavily moderated. Unless someone is posting porn in there or something inappropriate, then there's basically no rules broken. Since each thread would act as its own game, it would have its own rules and if the thread abides by the most basic of forum rules then its fine with me. Any problems within the section can be reported as posts or whatever if the situation is bad enough.

Well, then fine. I really don't mind the forum rules as much as I just hate how badly these members are bending the rules and the only mod there is saying "aww, they're fine" to almost everything. Could we have a plugin added where you can only post in some threads once a day, mainly just the forum games section. Although, that wouldn't really work well with some games. If the rules are there, those aren't guidelines, those are rules and rules need to be enforced. Slowtalk posting is extraordinarily common there and needs to be cut down immensely. Only one extremely lenient moderator isn't nearly enough. At least make there be the usual 3 moderators posted there. That forum is moderated by a member that the average American timezones don't apply to and almost all the activity there is when that user isn't active, so at least some moderators with the correct time zone.

[Master_Sword]

i suggest the creation of an RPG board! role-playing in forums are a big part of my visit. chatting is cool and all, but i just think being involved in a forum RP is the best. sub-boards would be the practice RPG board, the novice RPG board, and the veteran RPG board. to be honest, the only reason why i go to forums is to partake in the forum games and RPGs. let's admit it, pretending to be someone else is awesome. :P and i feel i get to know the people in the RP better, because a lot of times we talk about the RP outside of the forums (like in skype or whatnot) and we coordinate on what we're going to do next. that is my suggestion. :)

[Ember Incubus]

Someone was complaing to me that they could not have a fourth image in their sig because smilies counted as an image. You may want to work on that one if you can.

[MrMosley]

Someone was complaing to me that they could not have a fourth image in their sig because smilies counted as an image. You may want to work on that one if you can.

The extra images thing is a standard for all images because there really isn't any way to differentiate between a smaller and larger one. The more images and stuff you have in a signature, the longer it takes the page to load. Combine that with however many people on that page posted and you have a ton of added loading time just for signatures.

[Meego]

Well, this would perhaps help filter some threads more efficiently and I would definitely post there. Could there be a Game Reviews section?

[@lex MM]

Hmm...I don't know, I've seen Zelda Dungeon's podcasts and it would be great if you do one again;)

[Durion]

I agree with @lex, we really do need the frequent podcasts again, they were great. Especially after they finished and a member would do a run-through of host Pokemon battles. It's really good fun, even if it wasn't Mases again, although it would be best if it was Mases.

[Hero of Time]

There should be a Zelda Dungeon app for those of us that have iPod Touch/iPhone/iPads to have easier access to the forums.

[Justin]

@Hero of Time

Please don't post in this thread unless its a real suggestion. We may not reply to an idea that like or dislike. I try my best to check this thread at least once a week. Do you use an iPhone and how bad is it using the regular web browser? Our forums work perfectly fine with my Motorola Droid, so I presume they should work with an iPhone. If the default web browser doesn't work with iPhone and our forums, try looking up Safari Mini.

[Hero of Time]

It works fine on my iTouch and iPad, except the videos never load on the home page.

[Goro-Link]

To be able too see when somone affacts your reputation. i hate being judged.

Edit: yeah, i know i can't speel.

[athenian200]

What about a section for member blogs? You know, where people could go and post things about what's going on their lives, etc?

Not Zelda-related, I know, but a place to share what's going on in their life, feelings, and their random inner thoughts might help to keep people involved in the community.

[Justin]

It works fine on my iTouch and iPad, except the videos never load on the home page.

That is because the iTouch and iPad don't support flash. Without flash support, you can't watch videos on the front page. You may search up the videos on youtube and watch them via that.


To be able too see when somone affacts your reputation. i hate being judged.

Edit: yeah, i know i can't speel.

You can see when you receive reputation. If you click settings on the forum header, you can see your reputation. Just make sure to take your time when writing a post and proof read them.


What about a section for member blogs? You know, where people could go and post things about what's going on their lives, etc?

Not Zelda-related, I know, but a place to share what's going on in their life, feelings, and their random inner thoughts might help to keep people involved in the community.

That's a good idea in my idea. You should forward that to Mosley via Private Message. I'm not sure how much he checks this thread. Thanks for the idea!

[Baysiderulez]

Hmm I was wondering if you guys have ever looked at the VB Experience mod before... or if ya would ever think to give it a shot... I think its rather cool...

anyways just a suggestion.

LINK: http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=245023

[@lex MM]

I don't know if that counts as a suggestion, but maybe you should update the Site History page. Oh, and I want to say again that I liked the podcasts, could you bring this back again?:lol:

[Jedizora]

I don't know if that counts as a suggestion, but maybe you should update the Site History page.

Just a question, but could you provide easier accsess to the Site history page? The only way i know how to do it is through going to the last layout and clicking site, the site history.

[Ember Incubus]

Here is a small sugestion. When you see someone with 0 REP, it says his REP is unknown, could you change it to unknown or neutral?

[Axle the Beast]

Just a question, but could you provide easier accsess to the Site history page? The only way i know how to do it is through going to the last layout and clicking site, the site history.
You just go to any page on the site other than those on the forums and go to the lower left corner. There's a bunch of links like Affiliates, Staff, etc., and one of them is Site History. ;)

[Durion]

Here is a small sugestion. When you see someone with 0 REP, it says his REP is unknown, could you change it to unknown or neutral?

I don't really understand what you mean with this, do you mean can you make it so the comment for 0 rep says unknown or neutral?

[Dracomajora]

I think the MM page on ZD is too opinionated."A great game" "Lacked any real depth" "lacked the epicness it's procceder had"
I think it should be more about facts and less about one persons opinion.Just a suggestion.I also think you should add reviews to all the games on there section,but in a different place then the main page.

[Ember Incubus]

It says, "XXX is unknown commodity at this point." Can you change it to something like "XXX either has an unknown amount of reputation or has not received nor loss reputation before." Like, If you were once at 20 and now 0, it says the current message as if you never gained REP before at all.

[Durion]

They would have had to lose reputation to get down to 0 points, as every member starts off with 10 rep if I am correct. I think that is why it says they are an unknown commodity, and all other comments don't directly refer to reputation points either, so it would be an odd thing to have in my opinion, but meh, jusdt wait and see what one of the admin's says about it.

[Ember Incubus]

Wait, so if you have 150 REP, your REPs are worth 15?

[February Eve]

Wait, so if you have 150 REP, your REPs are worth 15?

I'm not exactly sure how it works, but it's not just based on rep. From the FAQ (http://zeldadungeon.net/forum/showthread.php?2956-Reputation-Implemented), it depends on:

1. Number of Posts at the forums. (More posts = More Reputation Giving Power)
2. How many days you've been at the forums. (Longer you've been here, more reputation giving power).
3. Most importantly, your reputation. (If you have a high reputation yourself, you give more points out. On the contrary if you have a low or even negative reputation, then your reputation posts count very little.)

[Hero of Time]

Perhaps we could be able to like and dislike threads and posts and when we do that, the person that posted it is automatically given a +1 or -1 rep depending on which one they did.

[Hachi]

Ehh that seems excessive, since you can pretty much do that now with the current rep system. Just put into the reason box "Nice thread" or something to that degree? c:

[Hero of Time]

I don't even know how to give rep

[Zenox]

Perhaps we could be able to like and dislike threads and posts and when we do that, the person that posted it is automatically given a +1 or -1 rep depending on which one they did.

You can rate threads, give them a rating 1-5. It basically serves the same principal, so ... happy rating.

[STEVEN]

This sites OoA guide needs some work. Take a look at your Oot guide. It has in depth maps and is very good. I think this site should take that care to make each walk through that good starting with OoA.

[Beeker]

I don't even know how to give rep

It's pretty simple. At the bottom of a member's post,(the bottom left corner to be exact) there will be a six-pointed star. You click on it and decide if you approve/disapprove of the person's post.
And that's it:D

[Hero of Time]

Thanks Beekerm30303030303030303030303030

[TreeHuggerPanda]

Um... I don't know if this is a good idea or not, but I was trying to find some older fan fiction in the fan works area, and it was kind of hard to find some. So I came up with an idea for a separate section for writing only. And then another section for other fan works for the fan works area to be more organized.

Thanks~

[Durion]

I was wondering if we would be able to have a Sprites subsection in the Avatars/Signatures forum section, but it's not really necessary. I was also thinking of something like a competitions forum section, as they seem to be appearing a fair amount around the site now. What are the admins opinion on this?

[AaronX]

Someone has probably already mentioned this, but I think there should be a section for FS and FSA

[Elfen]

Umm What about deleting 'Dead' Threads So they wont be such a burden, y'know they are just there... Have no Purpose, and its annoying when some one tries to revive it with a comment and no one post and it starts in the first page and all. Unless you do it every so years or months to do so, idk....

[ApcolypticMufin]

I don't even know how to give rep
At the VERY bottom left corner of every post are two small icons. One is a six pronged star and the other is a sign with an exclamation mark on it. Click the star to give rep and the sign to report a post.

[Justin]

Um... I don't know if this is a good idea or not, but I was trying to find some older fan fiction in the fan works area, and it was kind of hard to find some. So I came up with an idea for a separate section for writing only. And then another section for other fan works for the fan works area to be more organized.

Thanks~

I think we don't want a lot of specific boards because when you have a lot of specific boards, a lot of them won't get posted in, and will just take up space on the forums. We try to keep our boards fairly general, and organize different threads with prefix's. Even if we did that, we would have to read through each of the threads to determine if they're writing or not. If we don't have writing prefix, I'll defiantly look into it. Thanks.


This sites OoA guide needs some work. Take a look at your Oot guide. It has in depth maps and is very good. I think this site should take that care to make each walk through that good starting with OoA.

We currently have people working on that! We hope to publish stuff ASAP. Thanks!


I was wondering if we would be able to have a Sprites subsection in the Avatars/Signatures forum section, but it's not really necessary. I was also thinking of something like a competitions forum section, as they seem to be appearing a fair amount around the site now. What are the admins opinion on this?

We could look into having a sprite prefix. I fear if we gave it its own board, it would barely be posted in. Like I've said before, it'll just take up space. Thanks!


Someone has probably already mentioned this, but I think there should be a section for FS and FSA

We get a lot of suggestions for that. Four swords for the GBA would be very difficult to get screen shots and work on a guide because it requires multiple players. FSA, there is a possibility we may do it, but I can't guaranteed it. The game itself is really linear and easy to follow and beat. Thanks!


Umm What about deleting 'Dead' Threads So they wont be such a burden, y'know they are just there... Have no Purpose, and its annoying when some one tries to revive it with a comment and no one post and it starts in the first page and all. Unless you do it every so years or months to do so, idk....

That kills the purpose of having a forums. Especially in the game help boards. We've talked about this before, and decided it isn't that big of an issue. We know that there are duplicate threads because some threads get really old and hidden. This is okay, because we get new members, and it is a hassle to read through all the old threads. If it helps keep our community active, there is no problem making a duplicate thread (that was posted a while back). Thanks


Keep the suggestions going! I'm sorry I've been slow for the past week or so. I've been moving in for school! I try to make trips to this thread when I get a chance. Thanks to everyone!

[Ember Incubus]

We get a lot of suggestions for that. Four swords for the GBA would be very difficult to get screen shots and work on a guise because it requires multiple players. FSA, there is a possibility we may do it, but I can't guaranteed it. The game itself is really linear and easy to follow and beat. Thanks!
FSA still has confusing puzzles like the rest of the series, and atleast deserves a page of its own. (Like ZSS has, but no guide.) Maybe the page can have the minisummery and some screenshots. So are you saying you guys will never have FS? And if people offered to help with FSA, would you make a page and walkthrough then? (Well, the helpers would make the walkthroughs, but they need a page to post it on.

[ComposerBrother]

I would like Forum Games to be its own thread. With sub threads like RPG's and Other. Not that anyone would read this post. :lol:
It's just that forum games is a sub thread now. :dry:

[@lex MM]

I would like Forum Games to be its own thread. With sub threads like RPG's and Other. Not that anyone would read this post. :lol:
It's just that forum games is a sub thread now. :dry:
I think that's not a good idea, because all the members will give more attention to Forum Games than the other sections(and actually, they already do)
What, am I saying this, the Forum Games lover...?!

[Kitsu]

I would like Forum Games to be its own thread. With sub threads like RPG's and Other. Not that anyone would read this post. :lol:
It's just that forum games is a sub thread now. :dry:

Because the forum games don't already get enough activity.

[arkvoodle]

I would like Forum Games to be its own thread. With sub threads like RPG's and Other. Not that anyone would read this post. :lol:
It's just that forum games is a sub thread now. :dry:

The forum games section is actually an activity sapper. It's like a parasite that sucks activity away from other forum sections.
The site and forums are about Zelda. We don't want it to be about forum games. Be thankful that it even exists.

[bradley]

A couple things:

There should be /SPOILER formattting that you can't see unless you mouseover or click on the text.
We need a walkthrough for the Riddle Quest in the GBA version of A Link to the Past.
Could you fix the bar listing the games at the top of the site?
http://img835.imageshack.us/img835/8448/zdbar.png
The top one is the main site and the bottom one is the forums.
Also, could you maybe make the bar so you click it instead of mousing over because when I am trying to access some options it always goes to a different menu. I don't know how it's done but I've seen it done before.
That's all for now. Hope you consider my suggestions. :)

[Justin]

FSA still has confusing puzzles like the rest of the series, and atleast deserves a page of its own. (Like ZSS has, but no guide.) Maybe the page can have the minisummery and some screenshots. So are you saying you guys will never have FS? And if people offered to help with FSA, would you make a page and walkthrough then? (Well, the helpers would make the walkthroughs, but they need a page to post it on.

We may consider doing the GCN version of Four Swords. I don't personally write guides or even own the game, so I can't guarantee it.


I would like Forum Games to be its own thread. With sub threads like RPG's and Other. Not that anyone would read this post. :lol:
It's just that forum games is a sub thread now. :dry:

Like the previous replies, we don't want out forum games to have a lot of space on our forums front page. We can consider the idea of adding prefixes to each game, to make it easier to search and look for a specific forum game. Similar to previous suggestions, the specific game boards, may not get all that much attention and be wasting scrolling space. From my personal experience (merely scanning the topics), we don't get a lot of new forum games. A lot of our forum games, stay pretty active for a while. In general, we don't get enough threads in our forum game to give it specific sub-forums.


A couple things:

There should be /SPOILER formattting that you can't see unless you mouseover or click on the text.
We need a walkthrough for the Riddle Quest in the GBA version of A Link to the Past.
Could you fix the bar listing the games at the top of the site?
http://img835.imageshack.us/img835/8448/zdbar.png
The top one is the main site and the bottom one is the forums.
Also, could you maybe make the bar so you click it instead of mousing over because when I am trying to access some options it always goes to a different menu. I don't know how it's done but I've seen it done before.
That's all for now. Hope you consider my suggestions. :)


When you say spoiler, are you talking about the forums? So that people can hide content, and have it only open with a spoiler tag? That can certainly be done. For the Riddler Quest, you may want to go to www.zeldadungeon.net/contact-us and make a suggestion via that. This way our Walkthrough writers will get contacted directly, as they may not check the forums.

If the header is that much of a problem for the forums. I can fix it so it looks exactly. As for the clicking, that can't be done. If you're having problems, you may be using an older browser in which you should upgrade it. Our header works fine with the latest I.E, FireFox, Opera, etc. If you need help on that, feel free to contact me via PM or VM (visitor message).

[February Eve]

I know you don't want to have too many forums/subforums, but I liked one of the suggestions earlier about the fanworks section having a subsection that is almost like a "help" area. That is, the main section would have fanworks, and the subsection would have sign-up threads, "How do I write a fic?" threads, recommendation threads, etc. It would help organize the section and at the same time give emphasis to the works themselves.

Just a thought. I also do like your idea of diversifying the prefixes to things like Zelda writing/General Writing, etc. That would make it easier to search. :)

[Zelda Freak]

I don't know if it exists or anything, but could one of the webmasters/admins/mods post a thread explaining the ranks? I've searched for it, but nothing comes up. Just a suggestion. :/

[Kybyrian]

I don't know if it exists or anything, but could one of the webmasters/admins/mods post a thread explaining the ranks? I've searched for it, but nothing comes up. Just a suggestion. :/

There is a thread in this forum(the community forum) that is entitled Zelda Dungeon Forum FAQ (http://zeldadungeon.net/forum/showthread.php?11942-Zelda-Dungeon-Forum-FAQ). Down below the part explaining the forum and all that and the reputation there is some other frequently asked questions. There is one explaining the colored names on the forum.

[misskitten]

Okay, I sent a suggestion for an easier solution for one of OoT's quests over a month ago and I've not heard back from the guide writers or seen my suggestion make it into the tutorial... how long does this process usually take? As the tutorial is today, if you follow it, if you even make it within the deadline you have maybe one or two spare seconds left, while I suggested a route that would potentially land you with a minute or more to spare... It's not because of credit or any of that crap that I ask, but simply because I think it's a shame that other game players looking to the tutorial for help won't know that it's actually possible to go an alternative route...

[Justin]

I know you don't want to have too many forums/subforums, but I liked one of the suggestions earlier about the fanworks section having a subsection that is almost like a "help" area. That is, the main section would have fanworks, and the subsection would have sign-up threads, "How do I write a fic?" threads, recommendation threads, etc. It would help organize the section and at the same time give emphasis to the works themselves.

Just a thought. I also do like your idea of diversifying the prefixes to things like Zelda writing/General Writing, etc. That would make it easier to search. :)

If you want to write a thread about help on fan fics, feel free! If not you, anyone who wants to can! If it is good enough we may pin it to the top for new users to fan-fic. I'm not a big poster of the fan-fic stuff so I wouldn't know where to start! Thanks.



Okay, I sent a suggestion for an easier solution for one of OoT's quests over a month ago and I've not heard back from the guide writers or seen my suggestion make it into the tutorial... how long does this process usually take? As the tutorial is today, if you follow it, if you even make it within the deadline you have maybe one or two spare seconds left, while I suggested a route that would potentially land you with a minute or more to spare... It's not because of credit or any of that crap that I ask, but simply because I think it's a shame that other game players looking to the tutorial for help won't know that it's actually possible to go an alternative route...

The site content providers are pretty busy and there is a possibility they may not have read it, and it got deleted. You can try adding suggesting it through our contact page (http://zeldadungeon.net/contact-us). I'll try my best personally to look into it!

[misskitten]

The site content providers are pretty busy and there is a possibility they may not have read it, and it got deleted. You can try adding suggesting it through our contact page (http://zeldadungeon.net/contact-us). I'll try my best personally to look into it!

But that's what I did, I copied the suggestion I wrote on (page 3) this thread and sent it through the contact page... should I resubmit it or something?

[February Eve]

If you want to write a thread about help on fan fics, feel free!

That wasn't what I was thinking of, but I will consider doing that this weekend. So thanks for the idea. XD

What I actually meant was that I've seen a variety of threads in the fanworks section right now.

- Actual fanworks (graphics, writing, etc)
- Sign up threads (for people who want to be a character in the author's next story)
- Questions about how to write a fanfic
- Threads asking for recommendations (okay, just mine, but I've seen them in other communities too, and it can be useful to help people sort the wheat from the chaff)

I know you don't like to have the forums too subdivided, but I think it would be worth it to keep consider one there so that the actual Zelda fanworks were in the main forum, and then have a subsection (like the "game help" section in general gaming) for things related to fanworks but that aren't fanworks yet, if that makes sense. Really, it's organization more than anything - I think it would make searching easier since you'd know that clicking "Zelda art" would only give you actual fanworks. Plus, I see guests in that section a lot, and it would probably help them figure out what's what.

It works well enough the way it is now, but since it is a suggestions thread, just thought I'd mention it. :)

[Valexi]

Just to expand on Febuary's idea, there are indeed a lot of different kind of things being posted in the art section.
I understand that dividing the forum might cause some problems...so if you can't divide the forums, how about adding more Prefixes?
Right now the only Prefixes in the art forums are "General Art," and "Zelda Art," which are a bit too general.
How about a Prefix for Zelda Fan Fiction, Sign ups, ect, so that people can find certain things easier?
Like if someone is looking to see what Zelda art has been drawn recently, they can find it easier, or if they're looking for any open sign up threads.
I think these should do;
-Zelda Art
-Zelda Fan Fiction
-Zelda Sign Up
-General Art
-General Fiction
-General Sign Up
-W.I.P (works in process, for people who need assistance or suggestions or critiques. Just an idea)

[Austin]

I don't know if this has been suggested before and I'm too lazy to go look through seven pages of backlogs, but is it possible to implement a feature that allows you to choose how much reputation you give to a person? Your reputation, amount of posts and time being a member would still dictate how much reputation you could give, but that'd simply be the maximum amount. It'd be nice if you could chose to give less. I don't know if this is a problem for most people, but I have a somewhat high reputation score. Often I would like to give positive or negative reputation to someone but most of the time I am afraid that I'll give them too much of a compliment or damage their reputation too much. It'd be nice if I could give/dock someone five or six points for a minor thing and not be forced to dish out a full thirty or forty points.

[MrMosley]

I don't know if this has been suggested before and I'm too lazy to go look through seven pages of backlogs, but is it possible to implement a feature that allows you to choose how much reputation you give to a person? Your reputation, amount of posts and time being a member would still dictate how much reputation you could give, but that'd simply be the maximum amount. It'd be nice if you could chose to give less. I don't know if this is a problem for most people, but I have a somewhat high reputation score. Often I would like to give positive or negative reputation to someone but most of the time I am afraid that I'll give them too much of a compliment or damage their reputation too much. It'd be nice if I could give/dock someone five or six points for a minor thing and not be forced to dish out a full thirty or forty points.

Unfortunately, there's no way to limit the amount. The higher your rep, the greater your rep power, which is a problem I've come to face when wanting to give or take a way rep from someone. I only really give rep for really good posts or threads and I rarely give negative rep for anything unless its someone who continuously does something wrong over and over after being told that it is wrong.

[Jetter]

I didn't put much thought into this,but what if there was a news letter,sub-forum type thing. The expirience is like this,but this would be more about posts and threads. It's just an idea.

[Durion]

This isn't a suggestion, but more of a technical fault on the forum. Would it be possible to fix the bug with the "Edit Profile" section? Because as far as I know, I have put in the correct format. However, when I save, this appears:


You did not enter the correct format for the Wii Friend Codes field. Please read the field description for the expected format.

I'll remove all infomation from that field and see what happens...

EDIT: It lets me save if I remove all info from that field and then save. But I won't be able to put my infomation back in there. =\

Also...


If the header is that much of a problem for the forums. I can fix it so it looks exactly. As for the clicking, that can't be done. If you're having problems, you may be using an older browser in which you should upgrade it. Our header works fine with the latest I.E, FireFox, Opera, etc. If you need help on that, feel free to contact me via PM or VM (visitor message).

I believe he means that when he goes to click something beneath the Walkthrough image links for each game at the top, he sometime scrolls over the image link causing the drop down menu to appear, and thus when he clicks he is directed to a guide page. It's happened to me several times to, mainly when I go to click on my Profile, Notifications or Settings.

[Erebea]

I don't know if this post really belongs here but, the experience system in the forum got messed a while ago, I used to have 1,045 points, and I had all activity awards, then everything went zero, I got most of my stuff back but Ember Incubus is level 1 with -234 or so points. I can't help but wonder what made all that happen.

[Xinnamin]

^ They're still messing with it, it's bound to fluctuate weirdly until they finalize it.

Anyways, idk if I've said this before, but if you guys really do make that community news thing one of these days, start doing featured threads and art and stuff like that again. I think things like that really help forum activity.

[February Eve]

@FierceDiety - I think Ember also agreed to let the mods use his account as a test account, so his is even weirder than everyone else's.

I also like Xinnamin's idea. I believe cooldogs_1's thread about the classic controller option was featured on the main page once and it got lots of discussion. I think at the least it could inspire regular posters to be active in that thread, and at best it could inspire new members to join.

[Atsuma]

We have a section for stories and the such, but how about we get a section for Role Playing where Post count does not count? Anyway, just an idea, not that it matters much and I doubt it will be added but there is nothing wrong with trying, right? ;)

[arkvoodle]

We have a section for stories and the such, but how about we get a section for Role Playing where Post count does not count? Anyway, just an idea, not that it matters much and I doubt it will be added but there is nothing wrong with trying, right? ;)

For now, roleplaying is confined to groups. If it were implemented on the main forum body, it would be placed under forum games as there are already many RP like games.

[Ember Incubus]

Okay, here is my two cents. The skyward sword logo features the Hylian Royal Family's crest right? Well, that version only features one triangle for its head, your icon for ZSS on the top of this website shows three. You might want to change that.

[Justin]

This isn't a suggestion, but more of a technical fault on the forum. Would it be possible to fix the bug with the "Edit Profile" section? Because as far as I know, I have put in the correct format. However, when I save, this appears:



I'll remove all infomation from that field and see what happens...

EDIT: It lets me save if I remove all info from that field and then save. But I won't be able to put my infomation back in there. =\

Also...



I believe he means that when he goes to click something beneath the Walkthrough image links for each game at the top, he sometime scrolls over the image link causing the drop down menu to appear, and thus when he clicks he is directed to a guide page. It's happened to me several times to, mainly when I go to click on my Profile, Notifications or Settings.

I can look into adding more space between the notifications and the walk-through tab if that helps. I've never really had problems with that, but thanks!


I don't know if this post really belongs here but, the experience system in the forum got messed a while ago, I used to have 1,045 points, and I had all activity awards, then everything went zero, I got most of my stuff back but Ember Incubus is level 1 with -234 or so points. I can't help but wonder what made all that happen.

Its not done! So nothing is permanent! Don't worry if it changes stuff here and there! When its finally finish, we'll make a thread and all will be known!


We have a section for stories and the such, but how about we get a section for Role Playing where Post count does not count? Anyway, just an idea, not that it matters much and I doubt it will be added but there is nothing wrong with trying, right? ;)

Can't you use the game board? Doesn't that take into consideration for RPG games.


Okay, here is my two cents. The skyward sword logo features the Hylian Royal Family's crest right? Well, that version only features one triangle for its head, your icon for ZSS on the top of this website shows three. You might want to change that.

Really, I'll mention that to Caleb (who did the icons). Thanks for the suggestion!

[Atsuma]

Can't you use the game board? Doesn't that take into consideration for RPG games.
A Role Play story is not a game, see? It is a story written by a group of people, A story, not a game. Therefore, the suggestion.

[arkvoodle]

A Role Play story is not a game, see? It is a story written by a group of people, A story, not a game. Therefore, the suggestion.

These can be handled in the forum game section, as they are counted as games.

[Atsuma]

These can be handled in the forum game section, as they are counted as games.Oh okay, I will listen to your words, then. I might start one soon.

[Dragon565333]

I am suggesting a homework help page because of how many people went back to school maybe they need help with homework. So yeah :)

[MrMosley]

Okay, here is my two cents. The skyward sword logo features the Hylian Royal Family's crest right? Well, that version only features one triangle for its head, your icon for ZSS on the top of this website shows three. You might want to change that.

Nope. The image on the icon is just altered a bit to have the Triforce fit more between the wings than above them, as is in the actual art.

http://www.zeldadungeon.net/Image-Gallery.php?level=picture&id=8415

[Mr.Verto]

How are we going to get the money to buy things when the market is open huh? Just asking

[Ember Incubus]

Nope. The image on the icon is just altered a bit to have the Triforce fit more between the wings than above them, as is in the actual art.

http://www.zeldadungeon.net/Image-Gallery.php?level=picture&id=8415
Ah, I see your point. But there still is the single-triangle-head, so you guys technically need both.

[mab246801234]

I noticed that you didn't have a video walkthrough or a txt walkthrough for OOTMQ. I have a video walkthrough. Which you can use on the site if you want.

This is the link to the walkthrough for Ocarina of Time Master Quest Only.

http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=4BC1D54ED71D0088

Also I have a video walkthrough for Gerudo's Fortress for Ocarina of Time and Master Quest. I noticed there wasn't a video walkthrough for Ocarina of Time Gerudo's Fortress. In the video I show how to get all 9 keys like on the walkthrough on this site. After I finish redoing some of my walkthrough for Ocarina of time since I lost the original files way back. I may record me doing A Link to the Past using a TV tuner and the VC version of A Link to the Past which I have on my Nintendo Wii. If you use the walkthrough all I ask is that you put my user name next to the videos which is mab24680123456. I also have a few Side-Quests finished but not all. I have the Biggoron's Sword Side-Quest, Mask Trading Side-Quest, All Fairy Fountains, All Poes in the field to get the 4th Bottle, Malons fence jumping challenge, a trick to get 200 rupees at any time, and the overworld golden skultullas and magic bean locations together in one video that is separated into four parts, one Deku Nut Upgrade, and one Piece of Heart.

[February Eve]

I was curious, when the market is up and running, and if the items are graphics, will you be allowing contributions from site members? We have so many lovely graphics artists (myself definitely not included, so I'm not self-promoting) - I just thought that it would be a nice way to let them contribute to the site, and perhaps get special experience points if their art is chosen.

[MrMosley]

I was curious, when the market is up and running, and if the items are graphics, will you be allowing contributions from site members? We have so many lovely graphics artists (myself definitely not included, so I'm not self-promoting) - I just thought that it would be a nice way to let them contribute to the site, and perhaps get special experience points if their art is chosen.

Hmm. This is actually a very good idea. I've set up some stuff already but I just used the art from the game it is in, such as the official art of the weapons from LoZ. But you are onto something. I also had planned to make items not specific to a game, but just items from the Zelda Series overall, so this would work perfect for that. We'll be sure to keep this in mind ;).

[Baysiderulez]

I've been wondering through the various social groups and I notice that they all fall under the category "Uncategorized" Would it be possible to create different classifications for Social groups?

-People Related
-RP Related
-Video Game Related

are just a few I think that might be useful when someone is trying to search through them but not wanting to go through over 40 pages of social group listings to find the type of group they are looking for.

[LANZZ]

We only have a certain time-frame in which we are allowed to edit our thread/post. So, we can't edit our older post...

I hope any moderator/administrator can do something because i always want to editing my older thread/post...

[Random Person]

*A lot of people are saying the reputation system looks AMAZING, yet all I see are the words "reputation" repeated. I don't believe this is what they're talking about.
*In my story thread. I want to see the view count, but I don't want it to include how many times I view it. Perhaps there should be an option for this.
*One more thing I just remembered. On a noobish post I made a loooong time ago, someone gave me negative reputation points on it like last week. I was really upset since I made it so long ago and there was really nothing I could do about it. Is there anyway to limit when you can give points? Obviously I don't want to limit on when you can get good rep points, but it seems a little unfair to make my rep go down over something I posted so long ago when I was still a posting noob.

Edit
Figured out the first one. The hearts only work on the latest version of ZD and I use the Brown version. If I switch to the latest version it works.

[AlaskaAce1996]

I think it would be a good idea to make a sub forum for FAQs because all of them seem to get asked in the community forum which makes a lot of threads be closed.

[Anemos]

You know, for the new Reputation system, you should really start off with 3 hearts. Otherwise I feel like that beeping sound is going off. Besides that, good job with it. It looks really good.

[Turo602]

I think this forum deserves a nice Zelda related background. If this is possible can we have a nicer background then just a plain blue one, It would make this forum look so much cooler. And if a new Zelda game is on the way we could sort of promote it by having a different temporary background representing that game. For example, Skyward Sword is coming so we could have a temporary Skyward Sword background replacing our new one when the game is nearing.

I think it'll be a great idea.

[Phlegm]

It would be cool if you got a notification for reputation. I only figured out that I got some a month ago. (I got rep waaaay before that.)

[Atsuma]

I have a suggestion, and a very good one at that.

How about you Staff Members stop people from using the rep system who only use it for bad means? I mean its twice now that I've received negative rep for whatever I have in my signature. Isn't the rep system to be used only on posts and whatever is posted? If it works that way, then the members here are using it to their advantage. Yes, I am complaining. Why? It is simple. I have never given negative rep to someone merely because of whatever they have in their siggy, that's just lame, low, if you ask me. In fact, I think I have only given bad rep once or twice, but it was merited.

Either fix this little problem, or I myself will start handing out negative rep for whatever purpose I feel like giving it out. And I'd like to see those who have given me the bad rep to come here and show your faces. I doubt that's happening, though. Have a good day. ~The Great One.

[Justin]

I've been wondering through the various social groups and I notice that they all fall under the category "Uncategorized" Would it be possible to create different classifications for Social groups?

-People Related
-RP Related
-Video Game Related

are just a few I think that might be useful when someone is trying to search through them but not wanting to go through over 40 pages of social group listings to find the type of group they are looking for.

That seems reasonable to have. When I get some time I may look through some of our groups and find out some categories to be made. The problem is that most groups won't be updated. Each group manager has to go and edit their groups.


We only have a certain time-frame in which we are allowed to edit our thread/post. So, we can't edit our older post...

I hope any moderator/administrator can do something because i always want to editing my older thread/post...

You can private message moderators of the board, and they should be able to make edits. Also we could look into expanding that time frame for editing.


*A lot of people are saying the reputation system looks AMAZING, yet all I see are the words "reputation" repeated. I don't believe this is what they're talking about.
*In my story thread. I want to see the view count, but I don't want it to include how many times I view it. Perhaps there should be an option for this.
*One more thing I just remembered. On a noobish post I made a loooong time ago, someone gave me negative reputation points on it like last week. I was really upset since I made it so long ago and there was really nothing I could do about it. Is there anyway to limit when you can give points? Obviously I don't want to limit on when you can get good rep points, but it seems a little unfair to make my rep go down over something I posted so long ago when I was still a posting noob.

Edit
Figured out the first one. The hearts only work on the latest version of ZD and I use the Brown version. If I switch to the latest version it works.

1) I believe it only increments view count once per person. So if you view your own thread it only increments it once, and only once.
2) That really isn't a legitimate reason. Let it be a life lesson. When you join any forums, always be careful on what you post, and how you post it. Also not all negative rep hurts you. Some of them can be neutral and add 0.
3) We really don't fully support the older themes, but we make sure they're usable. If you want the latest things, you'll need to use the v19Dungeon.



I think it would be a good idea to make a sub forum for FAQs because all of them seem to get asked in the community forum which makes a lot of threads be closed.

We have one of these already. You can find the link on top of the forum index or you can Click Here (http://zeldadungeon.net/forum/showthread.php?11942-Zelda-Dungeon-Forum-FAQ)!


You know, for the new Reputation system, you should really start off with 3 hearts. Otherwise I feel like that beeping sound is going off. Besides that, good job with it. It looks really good.

I guess we could do that, but we probably won't. Its a lot simpler this way for new members and already registered members. If we were to implement that, it wouldn't effect your rep or any already registered members. That wouldn't be fair.


I think this forum deserves a nice Zelda related background. If this is possible can we have a nicer background then just a plain blue one, It would make this forum look so much cooler. And if a new Zelda game is on the way we could sort of promote it by having a different temporary background representing that game. For example, Skyward Sword is coming so we could have a temporary Skyward Sword background replacing our new one when the game is nearing.

I think it'll be a great idea.

We use a simple background for a reason. We want to try and minimize our forums load time. If we added a fancy background, it would add load time.


It would be cool if you got a notification for reputation. I only figured out that I got some a month ago. (I got rep waaaay before that.)

Currently there really isn't a setting for this yet. I can add a plugin that does this if enough people wish to have it.


I have a suggestion, and a very good one at that.

How about you Staff Members stop people from using the rep system who only use it for bad means? I mean its twice now that I've received negative rep for whatever I have in my signature. Isn't the rep system to be used only on posts and whatever is posted? If it works that way, then the members here are using it to their advantage. Yes, I am complaining. Why? It is simple. I have never given negative rep to someone merely because of whatever they have in their siggy, that's just lame, low, if you ask me. In fact, I think I have only given bad rep once or twice, but it was merited.

Either fix this little problem, or I myself will start handing out negative rep for whatever purpose I feel like giving it out. And I'd like to see those who have given me the bad rep to come here and show your faces. I doubt that's happening, though. Have a good day. ~The Great One.

There isn't anything against the rules for neg-repping for a signature. I reviewed your negative reputation and only one does neg reputation, the other does 0. The one that does real negative was for a legitimate reason. One of the biggest reasons for allowing negative reputation on signatures is to help with the signature limit. I see too many signatures that are getting too bi and add a lot of scrolling to the reading threads.

[MrMosley]

[SIZE=3][B]How about you Staff Members stop people from using the rep system who only use it for bad means? I mean its twice now that I've received negative rep for whatever I have in my signature. Isn't the rep system to be used only on posts and whatever is posted? If it works that way, then the members here are using it to their advantage. Yes, I am complaining. Why? It is simple. I have never given negative rep to someone merely because of whatever they have in their siggy, that's just lame, low, if you ask me. In fact, I think I have only given bad rep once or twice, but it was merited.

When compared to your positive reputation, the negatives you have recieved do not even hurt your points. That's something that I tried to explain in the past and apparently no one has listened. No, reputation should not be given for anything besides a post or what is within the post. But at the same time, our staff (more specifically, myself) cannot set and worry about people's negative reps. This kind of thing is at the very bottom of the list of importance when it comes to what myself and the other forum staff should be worrying about. If it is a consistent problem, then yes you can let an admin or other staff member know and they can pass it along ti me. But only then will I look into it.


Either fix this little problem, or I myself will start handing out negative rep for whatever purpose I feel like giving it out. And I'd like to see those who have given me the bad rep to come here and show your faces. I doubt that's happening, though. Have a good day. ~The Great One.

Which would 1.) Make you no better than the people who negative repped you, and 2.) Probably get you banned.

Let's be a bit more mature with ourselves, shall we?

[Tony]

I think you guys should add space invaders to the arcade

[ironknuckle1]

I just had an idea for the people who work here at ZD. I think that you all should make your own google chrome (and firefox) theme. I think it would be awesome. Right now their is only one zelda theme out their and if the people here made a really good one they could probably get a lot of people to download it.

[David]

well, i'm not on ZD staff, but I'll see if I can figure out a Zelda theme for Firefox.

[Atsuma]

When compared to your positive reputation, the negatives you have recieved do not even hurt your points.

No, reputation should not be given for anything besides a post or what is within the post. But at the same time, our staff (more specifically, myself) cannot set and worry about people's negative reps.

This kind of thing is at the very bottom of the list of importance when it comes to what myself and the other forum staff should be worrying about. If it is a consistent problem, then yes you can let an admin or other staff member know and they can pass it along ti me. But only then will I look into it.

Which would 1.) Make you no better than the people who negative repped you, and 2.) Probably get you banned.

Let's be a bit more mature with ourselves, shall we?


--You're sorta right, only one hurt my rep, but what about the others I am showing you now? You think that is fair now? Take a good look at the picture, I don't see how a member should receive bad rep for having posted a complaint, or simply because I may sound conceited, or from some stupid fool who's read my story and decided to bad rep me for something that has nothing to do with the post. If I do sound conceited, that's my own right, I can do whatever I want here as long as I stick to the rules, freedom of speech, etc. I am not violating any rules with my signature, and that shouldn't give any other members an excuse to hit me with bad rep simply because they carry animosity toward me.

--As I thought, rep system is to be used for whatever is posted in a post within a thread, not for other personal reasons such as wanting to discredit a member, lower its reputation simply because you can, etc.

--At the bottom? Then why use the rep system if you wont be looking into complaints and the such?

1) I don't care if it would be making me look like a fool, they are doing it to me, why shouldn't I retaliate in return? 2) Banned? *Laughs* That's ridiculous, for doing what they are doing to me?

Mature? Yeah sure, maybe you can tell that to the people who have negative rep me, eh? Anyway, regardless of what you decide to do, I simply don't give a **** anymore. If you don't want to do what's right, then shame on you.

--Edit--No, I am not changing my quote. So if I receive more negative rep because of that, than this place sucks.

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[Baysiderulez]

I would like to suggest that we raise regular member's PM box capacity to 100. Basically I am filling up my inbox in less then a week with it being at 50, and its really hard when i have to keep my sent messages because it doesn't "auto quote" in the reply, so that i can check back in to see what I said to them when their response may not make sense. That basically means I have room to receive 25 messages.

So if you could think about it... I think 100 would be reasonable =)

[Din Akera]

I would like to suggest that we raise regular member's PM box capacity to 100. Basically I am filling up my inbox in less then a week with it being at 50, and its really hard when i have to keep my sent messages because it doesn't "auto quote" in the reply, so that i can check back in to see what I said to them when their response may not make sense. That basically means I have room to receive 25 messages.

So if you could think about it... I think 100 would be reasonable =)

I would like to agree with Jo. I have constent problem with this. I am VMed about that fact that my inbox is full. I don't know how that does or doesn't work to have larger space, but I would like it. Using the VM system is not always practical. Private conversation happens when people's personal lives become invovled and want a friend to talk to. Also, I use the system a lot for fan fic and their set up. I like the content of my story to be a surprise and when I have other members involved i deal with only them on it. With the amount of characters i have sometime is becomes a problem for me if I'm working on a new section.

[zack125]

I haven't read the thread so I wouldn't know if it's been posted but I suggest game saves.

[arkvoodle]

I haven't read the thread so I wouldn't know if it's been posted but I suggest game saves.

What do you mean by "game saves"? As in the Arcade Games? I don't think that's possible. The admins don't program the game, they just embed it on the site.

Hope that helps in some remote way.

[Mr.Verto]

I have a suggestion to the forums:

You know in the main forum page you can see the thread with the latest unread post, and thats okay, but lately in the Skyward Sword Section it is almost impossible to post a thread that people can see. This is though since everyone keeps posting thread after thread (Mostly are the same as others) so when you post a thread that does have an intersting topic, it usually goes to the bottom of the pile and only like 4-6 person see it and maybe 1 or 2 post back.

I hope you take this in consideration!

[Austin]

I'd strongly recommend raising the character limit to fifty characters again, or possibly seventy-five characters. Honestly, I can't really imagine a quality reply under fifty characters. I'm aware that this makes VMs difficult at times, but using random characters to fill up the limit in a VM is perfectly acceptable. In my opinion, the need for quality posts is more important than aesthetically appealing VMs.

[Majora's Cat]

Honestly, the thing I would want to see most here is the return of the "Experience" bar at the top. I rather enjoyed the experience point system - it reminded me of an RPG game. A little part of me died when it was removed. While Zelda Dungeon still gains new sections and functions, I have no clue why you neglect to relaunch the "Experience" bar. Hopefully it's on its way back. :)

[AlaskaAce1996]

I'd strongly recommend raising the character limit to fifty characters again, or possibly seventy-five characters. Honestly, I can't really imagine a quality reply under fifty characters. I'm aware that this makes VMs difficult at times, but using random characters to fill up the limit in a VM is perfectly acceptable. In my opinion, the need for quality posts is more important than aesthetically appealing VMs.
Quality, not quantity. A post doesn't have to be long to be good, I mean some long posts can be great while some can be total garbage, the same goes with short posts. I think avoiding sweeping generalizations would do this site some good.

[Austin]

Quality, not quantity. A post doesn't have to be long to be good, I mean some long posts can be great while some can be total garbage, the same goes with short posts. I think avoiding sweeping generalizations would do this site some good.
Fifty characters isn't at all long though. Users don't have to generate even more than one paragraph to meet it.

[AlaskaAce1996]

But some things can be said below the the proposed limit.

[Austin]

But some things can be said below the the proposed limit.
I guess I can't really argue with that. My point is, though, that I believe the potential benefits will outweigh whatever losses.

[MrMosley]

At the bottom? Then why use the rep system if you wont be looking into complaints and the such?

Because when I did start looking into complaints, I got more. Word spread that I would take people's bad rep away when I done it once or twice and pretty soon, my inbox was flooded with complaints and people wanting their bad rep removed. Its annoying because people don't seem to really realize that the rep system works just fine. So you receive one or two bad reps.. So what? Like I said, it won't hurt your overall rep score, and if you are a good member anyway, you'd have a positive enough rep score that what kind of member you are would be properly displayed by it. A few bad reps are not going to hurt an overall score, so its a waste of my time to say "Yeah I'll fix people's bad rep", then have to go and do it for every member that got a negative rep just because I gave them that opportunity to possibly get it fixed. I'm not doing it anymore, not unless its something that is a prominent problem which really isn't possible because once rep is given by one person to another person, the one giving rep has to rep about 10 other members before they can give rep to that one person again.

With that said, taking care of the overall forum activity, dealing with spam and trolls, working on implementing new things into the forums and possibly remove things that are not used or unnecessary is the goal of myself and the forum staff. Not to mention, I have moderators and such coming to me for advice on bigger things to do with the forums. We deal with real problems, and one or two negative reps is not a real problem. If it was, I would deal with it. I have dealt with everything on these forums since becoming an admin that was something widely viewed as a real problem. This negative rep situation is not something that everyone complains about, but something that three or four continuously complain about and sometimes others who believe their rep situation can be adjusted.

And remember, this can go both ways. I guarantee that tons of people have received meaningless positive rep, but you never see anyone complaining about that. I could just as easily go in and remove all positive reps from you that I felt were unjustified, as well as your negative reps, if the problem here is unjust reputation, because it comes from different sides of the spectrum. Of course no one likes anything negative, but the subject at hand is generally receiving reputation points that one shouldn't have received for the reason given. Think about that one.


1) I don't care if it would be making me look like a fool, they are doing it to me, why shouldn't I retaliate in return?

Maybe because you are supposedly an adult, which I highly doubt at this point. If you are, you certainly aren't acting your age or mature about the situation at all. "Two wrongs do not make a right" is an old saying that I've heard since I was about 5 years old and I'm sure you and everyone else has heard something similar all their life.


2) Banned? *Laughs* That's ridiculous, for doing what they are doing to me?

You never complained once about this particular situation until this thread, in your original post. In that post, you openly addressed a problem that could have been looked into and handled through a PM to myself or another moderator. Without even discussing a possible solution to said problem, you made open threats to harm other's forum status, which in my opinion was a direct shot at me by saying that if I did not do something, you were going to harm other members of the forums. That is what you said, and yes, that kind of behavior will get you banned.


Mature? Yeah sure, maybe you can tell that to the people who have negative rep me, eh? Anyway, regardless of what you decide to do, I simply don't give a **** anymore. If you don't want to do what's right, then shame on you.

Need I remind you that most members on this forum are younger and probably not as mature as you should be, claiming to be an adult. You are expected to act as a mature adult and conduct yourself as such, but from what I've seen here you have shown the most immaturity of anyone on the forums. I'll do as I feel is right and I believe I am in the position to decide what is right and wrong here. I will not fix your negative reputation every time you get it. I will not address pointless, immature internet drama. I will fix real issues. If you or any member feels as though another member is purposely and continuously giving them problems, then yes I will fix that kind of problem.

[Hylian]

Is this where we could post suggestions for the guide on the main site?

[Jedizora]

I don't know if that counts as a suggestion, but maybe you should update the Site History page. Oh, and I want to say again that I liked the podcasts, could you bring this back again?:lol:

This was posted a couple of pages back but never addresed. I do think you should update it because i find the Site history page very intersting.

[itspietime]

Hey guys I'm kinda new to forums and not sure if i should post this here but i was reading your majoras mask news with the full moon vid and i have a project I'm working on of a 3d model of the happy mask sales man out of paper and wondering if u could put the pics up for the aniversery I'm about half way done and so far it looks pretty good so pleas respond and tnx.:)

[Justin]

Is this where we could post suggestions for the guide on the main site?

No. This is for the forums and how we can improve them. For site suggestions and comments you can use our Contact Us Page (http://www.zeldadungeon.net/contact-us/?cat=errors)


This was posted a couple of pages back but never addresed. I do think you should update it because i find the Site history page very intersting.

If you guys feel this is important. I'll update it when I get a chance! Thanks for letting me know.


Hey guys I'm kinda new to forums and not sure if i should post this here but i was reading your majoras mask news with the full moon vid and i have a project I'm working on of a 3d model of the happy mask sales man out of paper and wondering if u could put the pics up for the aniversery I'm about half way done and so far it looks pretty good so pleas respond and tnx.:)

We do have a photo gallery with many Majoras Mask pictures. Also, we'll be updating it a lot with Majora's Mask Month. You can watch for updates our gallery (http://zeldadungeon.net/gallery/index.php?cat=13).

[itspietime]

Thx again.:) PS: I just love these smileys

I've been looking around and I cant Find the tab for the photo gallery if you could help it would be much appriciated

[Master Link]

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That's the Gallery Button. Hope I helped.

[purplelink]

HERES A SUGGESTION!!!!!

Keep up the good work!!!!!

[itspietime]

thnx i wasent sure were in the gallery i waz supose to go to though thnx any way PS: I find it slightly creepy how i got the mozelda theme the same day u posted that.

Edit: I found an apropriet place to post it now i just need to know how to upload it to the album

[Valexi]

Heeeeeyyy I got a suggestion.....
Increase the number of images you can have in your signature?
4 is kinda limiting....and most forums don't even have an image limit, but rather they limit the visible space of the signature box.
I understand that allowing people to post more images can have it's disadvantages, since it can lag the page or can be abused to a certain extent, but in my experience people don't go out of their way to abuse the signature system.
I kindly request an increase in images allowed in signatures.
I believe 8 would be ideal.

[bradley]

^That would actually be pretty cool. I could create a whole interface in my signature, but it is kind of impractical IMO.

I have a couple more suggestions:
Putting the footer of the original site beneath the forums would give the site a more unified feel. Not that it matters since this is one of the most integrated forums around; its just a suggestion.
The second would be to remove the 30 character limit from visitor messages. I am in full support of the character limit on the main forums, but most of the time people just use their profiles for casual talk.
The third would be to allow fonts in visitor messages. I see no reason why not.
And last would be to add info for masks purchased at the market and arcade info to the user info at the left of posts. I don't know if this is possible but it would be really cool.
No pressure intended. These things are not really needed for the forums, but they would be nice additions.
EDIT: Also, the textured background (http://zeldadungeon.net/wp-content/themes/default/images/Background.png) of the main site would look good on the forums (layer in-between the dark blue and the white), since the color is basically identical. Plus it gives more of that unified feel. But again, no pressure. These forums are wonderful.

[Lady_Yuna]

I really have 1 suggestion. Please bring back the "fanart of the month" thing that ZD used to have before the website started changing. (Why did ZD get rid of it in the first place?:huh:)

[Xizor]

http://zeldadungeon.net/forum/member.php?147-Xizor

Getting funky errors on that page, and it looks weird. No similar results on the few other profiles I checked.

[@lex MM]

http://zeldadungeon.net/forum/member.php?147-Xizor

Getting funky errors on that page, and it looks weird. No similar results on the few other profiles I checked.

But there aren't any errors in your profile...=\
Or...if you use Dungeon v18 you maybe need to change it to v19.

[Xizor]

Hmmm...Axle saw it before, too, but now it's gone. Weird. Dunno. I'm not a vBulletin Code expert. :P

[Baysiderulez]

lulz, poor Nikkers. Its ok Jo still luff's ya.

Anyways I have an idea...

Why not increase the avatar file size limit... 19.5kb is kinda small.... Couldnt we go with 25 or 30kb?

Thanks for your consideration....

Love you Mosley and Justin

[Linkmaster]

Maybe there could be another way to earn points for the market besides just posting? I get why posting is the way to get points, but it is a hassle, escpecially since I don't want to spam.

[Hylian Knight]

An optional Auto PM sender that is sent to people on your friend list if they are currently on ZD at the same time you are. (I've had many great conversation's with other ZD members.) And an Auto PM sender that tells if someone on your Friend has logged off.(I always hate it when I think someone has ignored a message that I sent them.)

[arkvoodle]

An optional Auto PM sender that is sent to people on your friend list if they are currently on ZD at the same time you are. (I've had many great conversation's with other ZD members.) And an Auto PM sender that tells if someone on your Friend has logged off.(I always hate it when I think someone has ignored a message that I sent them.)


There's a green light beside each user's name that tells if they are online or not.

[Hylian Knight]

Yes I've noticed that but It would be nice to know if someone on your friend list is on at the same you are.

[Baysiderulez]

They have a little + sign next to their name in teh "who's online list" if they are a friend or contact of yours.

Alternatively you can click on "quick links" and then "open contact pop-out" and it will bring up a new window with the list of your contacts... as well as the lighting system of who is online and who is not.

Hope that helps. Also when someone shuts their browser as opposing to logging off... It will still show them as online for 15 minutes or until the forums time out. So that might be a bit of a problem.

[Hylian Knight]

Since people told me things about this site I didn't know/pay attention to.

If someone logs off and you've sent Private Message and they haven't replied to your PM It send a automatically sends a VM to you telling that they've logged off.(I sometimes think people are just ignoring me.)

[bradley]

Since people told me things about this site I didn't know/pay attention to.

If someone logs off and you've sent Private Message and they haven't replied to your PM It send a automatically sends a VM to you telling that they've logged off.(I sometimes think people are just ignoring me.)
You just need to be a little more patient. They are probably not ignoring you, but most likely have other matters to attend to. I know from experience that they usually get back to you within the next day, especially if its a visitor message rather than a PM ;) This is also similar to read receipts, which will show whether they have read you message or not, although it is optional to send read receipts.

[Peace Of Heart]

I think that we should be able to buy Pieces of Heart and Heart Containers in the Market. These items are extremely common in the series so I think we should have them! :)

Not to mention that I like collecting them but the first reason is better ;)

[Mr.Verto]

Ok i got this great idea I hope you look at it:

So what about having something like trading cards. You buy them at the market for lets say: 10 points=3 cards.The cards you get are totally random. Each member can negotiate cards with others as the like, who finishes...well he gets an award or whatever.

[Linkmaster]

Ok i got this great idea I hope you look at it:

So what about having something like trading cards. You buy them at the market for lets say: 10 points=3 cards.The cards you get are totally random. Each member can negotiate cards with others as the like, who finishes...well he gets an award or whatever.

...I think we should just stick to finishing what is already in progress for the market at the moment. I'm not saying it's a bad idea, but it recquires a lot of work.

[Xizor]

I feel very passionately and strongly that only 15 posts per page creates clutter and is rather annoying. I think 20 or 25 would be better numbers for the amount of posts per page. Thank you for your consideration.

[Durion]

I feel very passionately and strongly that only 15 posts per page creates clutter and is rather annoying. I think 20 or 25 would be better numbers for the amount of posts per page. Thank you for your consideration.

You have to think about the members on this site that don't have good connection speeds, I used to have a bad broadband connection and it took me a while to load each page at the forum, mainly due to it having to load the images of each user for their signatures and avatars. So if it was to be increased, it's causing further problems for those that have a bad internet connection, which isn't really something that I think that anyone wants to happen.

I swear you used to be able to change it though, from something like 15 up to 90 posts per page, although that might have been with a different forum provider like phpbb.

[Axle the Beast]

Yeah, the page loading thing is actually a major issue sometimes. Xizor, I don't know if you're basing your preference off LoZ.com or not (I don't remember how many posts per page it was there), but LoZ always loaded really slowly for me. :(

[Xizor]

You guys also have much lower limits on images, specifically avatars, than we do. We do have 25 there, but I think 20 would be great. Considering how restrictive you guys are on Avatars and Signatures, I don't see it as being severe. I see your point there, but yeah.

[Pocket Asian]

Xizor, go to your User CP and then go to General Settings. Scroll down and you will find an option that will let you change the amount of forum posts you see on pages in threads.

[Xizor]

Though there is that option, and I intend to use it, there will always be that disparity between what I'm looking at and what the rest of the board sees. :P

[Majora's Cat]

I suggest that font size be returned to its original state. I use a laoptop for ZD and for some reason, font size 1 is now the size that font size 2 once was. This becomes a problem because all the posts I played with the size with now have humongous font, but when I go to another computer, the font is really small. What the heck is going on?

[Jedizora]

I was looking at earlier posts and I saw something that would be awesome. Member Blogs. That would be amazing so you could record your progress on zelda games or whatever.

[Kybyrian]

I suggest that font size be returned to its original state. I use a laoptop for ZD and for some reason, font size 1 is now the size that font size 2 once was. This becomes a problem because all the posts I played with the size with now have humongous font, but when I go to another computer, the font is really small. What the heck is going on?

Hold down CTRL on your keyboard and scroll up or down. It will change the page size, making everything bigger or smaller. It may (slightly) blur some images if you change it too much, but it works very well with text sizes. It could be possible that this is already done to one of your computers by accident. After doing this whatever you leave it at becomes default. If you think you may have accidentally adjusted the size(I know I have) and you use Firefox, then press CTRL-0 to reset the size to default.

[PhantomTriforce]

I have a suggestion. I don't know whether this is possible or not, but I've found that in some threads that go for a few pages, it is hard to find your post and read it again. So maybe you could add something that when you click on it, it goes to your post or at least the page with your post? That would be very helpful.
PS I know there is a find your posts link, but that is a very long list and I cannot find it there easily either.

[Austin]

I have a suggestion. I don't know whether this is possible or not, but I've found that in some threads that go for a few pages, it is hard to find your post and read it again. So maybe you could add something that when you click on it, it goes to your post or at least the page with your post? That would be very helpful.
PS I know there is a find your posts link, but that is a very long list and I cannot find it there easily either.
I'm assuming you're referring to the feature on your profile when you say Find your Posts link, and if so there is already a way to do this. Hit the Search Thread button at the top of every thread, and then Advanced Search, then type in your username into the appropriate box. Any posts you've made in that specific thread will show up.

[Hylian Knight]

I'm assuming you're referring to the feature on your profile when you say Find your Posts link, and if so there is already a way to do this. Hit the Search Thread button at the top of every thread, and then Advanced Search, then type in your username into the appropriate box. Any posts you've made in that specific thread will show up. He's right you know when I 1st on ZD I found the tactic Austin is mentioning above to be very useful.

[Master Sword13]

Hm, I did not know that. I'd actually like a way to have a blog too, as jedizora said. That way we'd be able to see what each other is doing zelda-wise, and we could give tips and tricks to others who have the time and awesomeness to check out the blogs.

[Crono]

Is it just me or does the arcade not allow you to submit any scores.

[Baysiderulez]

^ havent used it recently, but it was working the last time I did....

Anyways. I was wondering if there is a way so that if you accidently hit a 'hard backspace' and it takes you back a page, and you go forward again, that it wont erase the text I've been working so hard on preparing. I've had this happen quite a few times recently and its very frustrating. And usually when it occurs I decide to not bother posting. On other websites when a similar situation has happened, it has 'saved' the information put in the text box and my precious posting work was waiting for my return.

[Turo602]

Wouldn't it be better if the vistor messages weren't so unorginized? We should only see the people that we talk to or the people that talk to us, and then we get to view the conversation with that one person, instead of a whole bunch of differen't messages. I know it seems pointless, but it could be cool.

[Durion]

^ havent used it recently, but it was working the last time I did....

Anyways. I was wondering if there is a way so that if you accidently hit a 'hard backspace' and it takes you back a page, and you go forward again, that it wont erase the text I've been working so hard on preparing. I've had this happen quite a few times recently and its very frustrating. And usually when it occurs I decide to not bother posting. On other websites when a similar situation has happened, it has 'saved' the information put in the text box and my precious posting work was waiting for my return.

I'm going to agree with this, it is so damn annoying when something like that happens, because then I have to rewrite my entire post, and if it was a fairly long post, I lack the motivation at that point to post in the thread again for a long time. It's a pain to deal with when the forums are "flooded" too, as even though it usually saves it, I've had an instance or two when I don't get any of my text back.

[Turo602]

Oh, I almost forgot. Why can't we edit older post? It feels like I'm spamming in the video game section too much. I make a list of video games I want and have and I want to edit it over time. Not post it over and over with updates.

[Lady_Yuna]

Well, I already suggested reopening the art of the month thing that ZD used to have before, but another thing that I would like to point out is the Avatar size. Is there a possibility the avatar requirement will be changed soon, so I can make mine bigger? (but not too big obviously.) :/

[Baysiderulez]

Wouldn't it be better if the vistor messages weren't so unorginized? We should only see the people that we talk to or the people that talk to us, and then we get to view the conversation with that one person, instead of a whole bunch of differen't messages. I know it seems pointless, but it could be cool.

There actually is a way ;) Its just like old facebook really you have a "wall to wall" if you click view conversation....
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If you click on "view conversation" it pulls up the back and forth talk between you and that person. Since I didnt have any other messages with Claire, I used Keyshe as an example.

8740

Hope that helps (you can click on the thumbnails to see for yourself. I circled the view conversation button, so hopefully you can find it)

[athenian200]

Anyways. I was wondering if there is a way so that if you accidently hit a 'hard backspace' and it takes you back a page, and you go forward again, that it wont erase the text I've been working so hard on preparing. I've had this happen quite a few times recently and its very frustrating. And usually when it occurs I decide to not bother posting. On other websites when a similar situation has happened, it has 'saved' the information put in the text box and my precious posting work was waiting for my return.

That's actually a browser issue more than a site issue.

For one thing, some browsers already do keep the text if you move off the page, but others lose it all. Also, it's usually possible to configure your browser not to use "Backspace" as the back button.

I always set my browser not to use "Backspace" in that fashion, because it would always cause me to get kicked back while typing something. The excuse I get is that someone a long time ago decided that was the "standard" functionality for that key in a browser, and everyone else followed. Sigh. That's tradition for you, huh?

[Jedizora]

You should be able to make more then 5 groups. Also I was trying to delete the middle generation zd members group, which I created and its not letting me delete it!

[Baysiderulez]

That's actually a browser issue more than a site issue.

For one thing, some browsers already do keep the text if you move off the page, but others lose it all. Also, it's usually possible to configure your browser not to use "Backspace" as the back button.

I always set my browser not to use "Backspace" in that fashion, because it would always cause me to get kicked back while typing something. The excuse I get is that someone a long time ago decided that was the "standard" functionality for that key in a browser, and everyone else followed. Sigh. That's tradition for you, huh?

Well this same version of FF and default browser that I always use both at Legendofzelda.com and ZeldaDungeon.net and yet LoZ saves if I go back and forward and ZD does not. Also I've searched high and low throughout all my FF settings and cannot find the place to have it not set the backspace as a 'back' button. Believe me, I always try problem solving for myself before making suggestions. its so much easier when you just have control, ya know?

[Pocket Asian]

I've got two:
First, can we put some small requirements to access forum games? I'm not asking for anything big, but some that will at least increase the people's activity in other sections that would normally spend their time in there. I was thinking about what the requirements should be, and here's what I came up with:
30 posts (I was originally thinking 50)
25 reputation points
A ZD age of 15 days (I was originally thinking a month)

Second, can we not have the Forum Games section visible to guests?

[Djinn]

I've got two:
First, can we put some small requirements to access forum games? I'm not asking for anything big, but some that will at least increase the people's activity in other sections that would normally spend their time in there. I was thinking about what the requirements should be, and here's what I came up with:
30 posts (I was originally thinking 50)
25 reputation points
A ZD age of 15 days (I was originally thinking a month)

Second, can we not have the Forum Games section visible to guests?

I do not think that this would be a good idea. Already the forum games section is a lightly modded area that does not include post counts or reputation. Nothing is gained or lost posting there and as the forum titled says, it is for fun.

Removal of the section to certain members would not increase activity in other areas. People are not going to randomly post at the same rate regardless of section. It is the the thread itself that attracts posters. And if one section is closed off they might not post at all. Plus a general purpose section open to only specific members like that might give off the impression that newer members are not welcomed or must "earn" a right to remain there. This normally leads to accusations of elitism among the veteran members vs. newer ones, even if that is not the case at all. I have seen something like it in the past and all too often it leads to even more forum drama and people leaving.

[Pocket Asian]

Allow me to show you, Djinn, the horrid amount of activity in Forum Games.
Before the forum games section made its way into the forums some time earlier this year, our leading section in activity was World of Zelda.
Here's the activity of the two sections today:
World of Zelda: Threads: 945; Posts: 22,093
Forum Games: Threads: 123; Posts: 34,193


Removal of the section to certain members would not increase activity in other areas. People are not going to randomly post at the same rate regardless of section. It is the the thread itself that attracts posters. And if one section is closed off they might not post at all. Plus a general purpose section open to only specific members like that might give off the impression that newer members are not welcomed or must "earn" a right to remain there. This normally leads to accusations of elitism among the veteran members vs. newer ones, even if that is not the case at all. I have seen something like it in the past and all too often it leads to even more forum drama and people leaving.
Oh, you wouldn't believe what people would do to get what they want.
I don't know if you know about the shoutbox, since any mention of it in any thread is gone now because our rules are gone, but that is one of the things that not all members have. A member without the shoutbox knowing of the shoutbox and wanting the shoutbox has never caused any problems, and hell, that want for it increased their activity. It has never caused any sort of dispute among "veteran" members and "newbie" members, save that for the ranks.

The requirements that I've listed are so trivial, that if one who loses the section really wants it back, all that person has to do is make posts, which there are plenty of interesting threads in all sections, make posts good posts to get past the reputation requirement, and 15 days at a forum isn't a very long time. Also, most people who would lose the section if these requirements are made would only have to get past the reputation requirement as they already have the other two squared away.

[Meego]

I see what Pocket it getting at. It might be useful because then people wouldn't just join for the games and if they did they would have to post first and then they may become a regular poster in other forum sections so they might contribute to the debates in threads too.

[Djinn]

As I have said before the fun and games section contributes nothing already. The amount of posts and posters there mean nothing other than the amount of traffic it receives. And that might be due to the fact that some of the games are particularly fun to play in the first place. A person above me thread easily generates a page or three of posts in a day but nothing is gained or lost in it. Only fun between two posters and generally friendships on a forum are created this way.

And no I was not aware of a shoutbox in this forum, but in my experience those are a major factor in the overall declining activity of a forum. They are way too easy an instant message tool between posters and conversations are concluded easily enough without anyone ever taking the time to make a thread post. But that is not the point I am trying to make here.

I was just trying to convey that posting in a forum that contributes nothing to reputation or postcount, and only essentially exists as a fun time waster with friends does not sound like something that needs to be an earned privilege. Herding people into specific sections that are considered (in the eyes of one individual) more worthy than others is usually not a good method for maintaining a forum.

[Kybyrian]

I was just trying to convey that posting in a forum that contributes nothing to reputation or postcount, and only essentially exists as a fun time waster with friends does not sound like something that needs to be an earned privilege. Herding people into specific sections that are considered (in the eyes of one individual) more worthy than others is usually not a good method for maintaining a forum.

Quite a time-waster indeed... it wastes so much time that 50% of the posters in the forum games haven't made a single post in any section except for the forum games in the past week or more. What Pocket Asian is getting to, is that certain people have been overusing the forum games. As in, they post in the forum games only, and almost never venture to the other sections in the forum. This can easily be seen by examining just a few users.

[Turo602]

There actually is a way ;) Its just like old facebook really you have a "wall to wall" if you click view conversation....
8739

If you click on "view conversation" it pulls up the back and forth talk between you and that person. Since I didnt have any other messages with Claire, I used Keyshe as an example.

8740

Hope that helps (you can click on the thumbnails to see for yourself. I circled the view conversation button, so hopefully you can find it)

Thanks for the help, but that's not what I'm talking about. Let's say that I've only talked to 5 people. Then in my Vistor Messages I only see 5 avatars and I get to open the conversation between me and that person instead of seeing that person's messages to me in different places. Did I explain a bit more clear?

Well I apprciate it anyway.

[Hylian Knight]

An optional Setting that sends you a PM when a New Member regesters.

[Pocket Asian]

An optional Setting that sends you a PM when a New Member regesters.
If you want to find the new members, go to the top of the page, and find the Community tab, it is next to the link to the Arcade. Click it, and a drop down menu will appear. Go down the menu to Member List, and click that.

It will take you to a different page that shows every member of the forums. From there, find the column with the header that says Join Date, and click it only once. The list will change from the newest member to the oldest. Click it again if you want oldest to newest.

[jack-o-lantern]

I'm not sure if this goes here, but on the skyward sword page under the confirmed facts part, it says link will obtain thhe slingshot, the bow and the crossbow. The crossbow was never confirmed in the game. Just thought I'd let you know so u dont mislead others

[Atheistbigred]

im not up to reading this entire thread, so if anyone suggested this im sorry,
anyway can we get a mobile version of the main site and the forums, i only have one computer in my home and it is occupied during the day so i can't get on much, it would increase a lot of people's activity here on the forums. thank you

[zack125]

If the site already has it... then I haven't it.

It would be great if there was a walkthrough section for Master Quest.

[Heros Temporis]

I'm not sure if this fits here, (though I think it does) but the Wind Waker section of the main site (The Walkthrough and Guides) doesn't have a piece of heart guide. Pieces of Heart are in the Walkthrough, but there's no page for Pieces of Hearts specifically.

[Justin]

im not up to reading this entire thread, so if anyone suggested this im sorry,
anyway can we get a mobile version of the main site and the forums, i only have one computer in my home and it is occupied during the day so i can't get on much, it would increase a lot of people's activity here on the forums. thank you

What do you mean mobile version? Our site runs and work son Android/iPhone phones. I can vouch for Android as I've used my phone to visit the site/forums. For a more compatible mobile version, that isn't currently on our priority. We may consider it in the future.


I'm not sure if this goes here, but on the skyward sword page under the confirmed facts part, it says link will obtain thhe slingshot, the bow and the crossbow. The crossbow was never confirmed in the game. Just thought I'd let you know so u dont mislead others

http://zeldadungeon.net/contact-us/?cat=walkthroughs That link will take you to our contact page. For future walkthrough stuff, use that versus the forums. Many of the walkthrough writers don't use the forums that often.


If the site already has it... then I haven't it.

It would be great if there was a walkthrough section for Master Quest.

I believe the master quest is build along side the regular walkthrough. If this isn't so, then I can talk to the walkthrough coders and see what they think. However, you shouldn't expect anyone anytime soon, as walkthroughs take months to write.


I'm not sure if this fits here, (though I think it does) but the Wind Waker section of the main site (The Walkthrough and Guides) doesn't have a piece of heart guide. Pieces of Heart are in the Walkthrough, but there's no page for Pieces of Hearts specifically.

We have our people working on the Wind Waker guide as you speak. Please be patient, thanks!

[Alar]

erm... i would like to see a moblie version, because on Android , such as the Galaxy S , i find it really hard to click on certain links such as the the links in the forums, i have posted a few times off it but it is just to much of a hastle , maybe a simpler version of the site, for mobiles. I am for a Moblie version of a site, so please can we have one, and i do really think it will make alot a users use this a bit more. Thanks. Maybe if we start some kind of poll, to see if people DO want a moblie version of the site because i am sure quite a few people would appreciate that feature, i know i would so again thanks

Another thing i would like to see, i think i would like to propose is that we enforce the fact that the "Spoilers" prefix used alot more, because i am worried that coming onto this site , after skyward sword is released is the fact that someone might spoil a part of a game, maybe some of the moderators could enforce this, like if its something serious like lets say "Ganon kills link" or something like that , but also things a little less important, you may argue whats the point of coming on a Zelda site then , because thats where you discuss Zelda games, so you cant discuss them with out spoilers. But games like Ocarina of Time, which if you have't played why are you here, have no need for these spoiler titles because the game is so old, but you could argue again that some people havn't played this, but in that case maybe that people could put the spoiler titles for serious spoilers such as... i wont say. Or another soultion to this problem is keep the different sections , because i assume that after Skyward Sword is released i would merge with the Modern Zelda section, i dont agree with that happening maybe keep a Skyward Sword exclusive section , like you do now, but with a heading as SPOILERS.
I hope you listen to my views ALAR

[Majora's Cat]

I just had a crazy thought, ZD. Well, I noticed on some other forum sites there weresome nominations and awards given out for membrs. Of course, we used to have a system such as this in the Experience Bar and Awards System, but I'm thinking of something a bit different. I got the idea from Zelda Universe (http://www.zeldauniverse.net/forums/zu-awards/), since they hold nominations for titles such as "Most Creative". These exist on MHQ and ZU. I like the idea of the whole nominating thing and voting for who you want to have the title. Thanks for your time. :)

[ZeldaMaster]

Hey I was wondering if it would be a good idea if ZD got Clans Like ZU and LoZ.com. Its just a thought

[Kybyrian]

Hey I was wondering if it would be a good idea if ZD got Clans Like ZU and LoZ.com. Its just a thought

The forum groups (http://zeldadungeon.net/forum/group.php) feature offers the ability for users to create groups for other users to join. Right now their only purpose is as a social feature, and we don't have any intention of adding clans.

[Justin]

erm... i would like to see a moblie version, because on Android , such as the Galaxy S , i find it really hard to click on certain links such as the the links in the forums, i have posted a few times off it but it is just to much of a hastle , maybe a simpler version of the site, for mobiles. I am for a Moblie version of a site, so please can we have one, and i do really think it will make alot a users use this a bit more. Thanks. Maybe if we start some kind of poll, to see if people DO want a moblie version of the site because i am sure quite a few people would appreciate that feature, i know i would so again thanks

Another thing i would like to see, i think i would like to propose is that we enforce the fact that the "Spoilers" prefix used alot more, because i am worried that coming onto this site , after skyward sword is released is the fact that someone might spoil a part of a game, maybe some of the moderators could enforce this, like if its something serious like lets say "Ganon kills link" or something like that , but also things a little less important, you may argue whats the point of coming on a Zelda site then , because thats where you discuss Zelda games, so you cant discuss them with out spoilers. But games like Ocarina of Time, which if you have't played why are you here, have no need for these spoiler titles because the game is so old, but you could argue again that some people havn't played this, but in that case maybe that people could put the spoiler titles for serious spoilers such as... i wont say. Or another soultion to this problem is keep the different sections , because i assume that after Skyward Sword is released i would merge with the Modern Zelda section, i dont agree with that happening maybe keep a Skyward Sword exclusive section , like you do now, but with a heading as SPOILERS.
I hope you listen to my views ALAR

1) I can look into this more, but it won't be any time soon. The major problem is that its difficult to develop for mobile phones. I only have access to my Motorola Droid, and I'm able to use the forums sufficiently. No mobile phone can work perfectly with forums/sites as well as computers. There are many variety of screen sizes to take into consideration. Another problem I have is that when people post with mobiles, they don't post as well as they would with computers. I have no problems with viewing our forums via mobile, and I will try and look into that.

2) We'll try our best to remind people to use spoilers with the new Skyward Sword game. Now days, most games have been around long enough for a fair amount of people to have beat them. What is consider a spoiler to one member, may not be to another. I doubt we'll have such problems with Skyward Sword because we can assume that any information pertaining the game is spoiler.


I just had a crazy thought, ZD. Well, I noticed on some other forum sites there weresome nominations and awards given out for membrs. Of course, we used to have a system such as this in the Experience Bar and Awards System, but I'm thinking of something a bit different. I got the idea from Zelda Universe (http://www.zeldauniverse.net/forums/zu-awards/), since they hold nominations for titles such as "Most Creative". These exist on MHQ and ZU. I like the idea of the whole nominating thing and voting for who you want to have the title. Thanks for your time. :)

I sort of like the idea of having various nominations because it promotes different kinds of forum/community activity. Our HK promotions deal mostly with just general good posting quality. It doesn't take into consideration posting graphics and fan-fics. I don't have a lot of ideas on various nominations we can have (I'm not part of other Zelda forums). It would be more beneficial to suggest various nomination ideas, and we can see what other members think of them. Good Suggestion.

[Baysiderulez]

Thanks for the help, but that's not what I'm talking about. Let's say that I've only talked to 5 people. Then in my Vistor Messages I only see 5 avatars and I get to open the conversation between me and that person instead of seeing that person's messages to me in different places. Did I explain a bit more clear?

Well I apprciate it anyway.

I fail to see how clicking "View Conversation" wouldn't lead you to your conversations with that individual without having to go all over the place... I mean it's similar enough to fb or even Skype or Aim, where you have your list of peeps and you can view your entire conversation with them in less then 2 clicks.


Hey I was wondering if it would be a good idea if ZD got Clans Like ZU and LoZ.com. Its just a thought

While I'm a firm supporter for groups and group activities, I'm not sure if groups would be successful here at ZD.net. you have to have a group of dedicated leaders to plan events out, monitor group activity, and encourage people to stay active within their group. As someone who helped run them at LoZ.com [my username was zelda] I can say that it's not an easy task. Groups however are fun for the people in them, but its due to the hard work of your leaders who prep the activities for you.

My suggestion back to you... Use the social group feature as Kybyrian said... and/or if there's a group type activity you want to do, you could PM me and I could help you get it started.... or you can find a place within the forum it belongs and start it yourself... like in the forum games section.

[Xinnamin]

Two suggestions based off what I see at other boards.

Why not give site staffers their own color to go with their user group? I've seen a lot of sites where staffers had their own color, to give a bit more credit to those who work on the site and also to give forumers someone to contact for little things on the actual site without having to bother admins, since not everyone knows how to find the contact us page it seems. Maybe add staffers to the Forum Leaders page too, I've seen a lot of sites do something like that.

Another suggestion is a little gender icon or some gender identification on each user's post sidebar, like where it says Location and Age and etc add one for Gender. Like the others it would be an optional field. I know gender is already displayed on the user page, but not everyone checks the user page. Since there's been a lot of cases of active members getting their genders mistaken this should help overall with community socializing.

[Jedizora]

In the FAQ It was stated that:


For info on how to join the Zelda Wiki group, click the link below:

http://zeldadungeon.net/forum/showthread.php?t=2559 (http://zeldadungeon.net/forum/showthread.php?t=2559)


When I try to click on the link it says I don't have the prvilages. Can you make it so everyone can see it?

[Djinn]

In the FAQ It was stated that:

When I try to click on the link it says I don't have the prvilages. Can you make it so everyone can see it?

I asked about this a week or two ago as well. The link brings me to a do not have permission to access message. Are we supposed to ask a specific person about joining the wiki group or is this for staff only?

[Pocket Asian]

Most likely the reason for the link not working is because the page about the Wiki got deleted. As for how to get the banner under your name, I don't know.

[Justin]

The link was removed from the FAQ. The Zelda Wiki user group pretty much hasn't been used anymore, and the thread was removed. Thanks for reporting the broken link!

[Ninten*]

To get the Zelda Wiki Banner, you need to have a profile here and on Zelda Wiki. You need to have at least 50 edits.....I don't remember the rest. You need to talk to Mases about it. The ZW group doesn't have it's own thing anymore.

[Majora's Cat]

Two suggestions based off what I see at other boards.

Why not give site staffers their own color to go with their user group? I've seen a lot of sites where staffers had their own color, to give a bit more credit to those who work on the site and also to give forumers someone to contact for little things on the actual site without having to bother admins, since not everyone knows how to find the contact us page it seems. Maybe add staffers to the Forum Leaders page too, I've seen a lot of sites do something like that.

Another suggestion is a little gender icon or some gender identification on each user's post sidebar, like where it says Location and Age and etc add one for Gender. Like the others it would be an optional field. I know gender is already displayed on the user page, but not everyone checks the user page. Since there's been a lot of cases of active members getting their genders mistaken this should help overall with community socializing.

I agree completely with what you said, Xinn. I feel like the staff should have their own color as well, so that they are more easily indicated as so.

[Hylian Pants]

Hey guys, I made this suggestion a few months ago, but I feel like it went unread since I had posted in the middle of another discussion.. also, I would like to elaborate a bit on it. So, I think the Fanworks section should be a bit more organized. As in, make some sub-forums under Fanworks for Fanart (Visual Art), Fanfiction & Sign-ups, Contests, and General Art, (Maybe one for fan music?). Obviously this setup can be altered, and maybe I'm the only one who thinks so, but the section seems kind of cluttered. ZD is a unique community in that we see a lot of "Sign-ups" for stories, and as of recently, some art competitions have begun to show up. It's just that I've seen some other forums' art sections and it's usually organized in this kind of way. It works well, and I think it would make navigation easier, depending on if you feel like browsing through a specific medium at the moment.

[Djinn]

I am not so certain that there are enough of the various types of work appear in the Fan Works section to require a sub forum for each. Fanfiction might be able to pull it off, but the others such as non zelda and music might not have enough threads for a sub forum. I think some more prefixes should be added. Ones that tell if it is music, visual, etc. That would really help out in showing what each thread is displaying other than if it is Zelda related or not.

Although I do like the idea of a separate sub forum for contests. That would help out quite a bit.

[February Eve]

I definitely feel it can be cluttered. Even if the general works/fan works aren't divided, there are enough contests right now that I think their own subsection would be good. I may be the only one to think so, but I also think it'd be fun to have an artists' corner. I'm a writer, so I'm thinking specifically of that, but it could be where sign-up threads are for fanfics, advice threads for how to write (or draw), and so on. The behind-the-scenes-stuff can be necessary, but buries the actual works themselves.

[Djinn]

Something I just thought of. There have been a few new people joining and making threads asking basic newbie questions on the forum. Normally after an answer someone will refer the newbie towards a faq thread or to a mod and suggest that they speak to a mod or staff member. As a means to remove clutter around the board, obviously.

But how about a stickied newbie general questions thread. That way if someone has a general question to ask about something simple but cannot find anyone with a colored username, they can post a question there and a staff or helpful member can answer easily for them. That way we will not have new threads popping up for quick questions.

[Hero of Time]

I have a minor request. Would it be possible if you could make it so that when people give you rep it gives you a notification. It would be great if you could.

[Bigelover88]

You can simply see this by going to your settings HoT. I think for people who get a lot of rep (pos or bad) it can get annoying to get a notification.

[Baysiderulez]

Hai, I know I already posted this in the staff chat, but I'm not sure the right people would see this to even consider it...

The number of stickies in this board is ridiculous, and it buries the members introduction threads and leaving threads. Also if I were a new member I'd find it slightly daunting to have that many "stickies" with rules and such attached to them...

Perhaps an "announcements" sub-forum could exist for such an occasion... I mean leave the Rules and "Members appriciation" threads but perhaps move the others to another location.

[Justin]

I have a minor request. Would it be possible if you could make it so that when people give you rep it gives you a notification. It would be great if you could.

If enough people want this, I can add this.


Hai, I know I already posted this in the staff chat, but I'm not sure the right people would see this to even consider it...

The number of stickies in this board is ridiculous, and it buries the members introduction threads and leaving threads. Also if I were a new member I'd find it slightly daunting to have that many "stickies" with rules and such attached to them...

Perhaps an "announcements" sub-forum could exist for such an occasion... I mean leave the Rules and "Members appriciation" threads but perhaps move the others to another location.

Agreed. Hopefully this weekend I may be combining or unpinning threads.

[Baysiderulez]

Thanks Justin, and I second HoT's request... A Notification would be good... I think a PM would be too much though (I've seen mods available for PM's)

[February Eve]

Main site suggestion - have you considered having a couple of mods for the "Intense Debate" comments on the main page? I don't think it would require a lot of work after the initial crackdown, but some of the anonymous users are causing issues on some posts. See here (http://www.zeldadungeon.net/2011/01/featured-fanart-the-great-sea/#idc-container), for example, with some of the "Dark Master" imitators. Mods could delete spam and encourage people to get official accounts in cases like that.

[Jedizora]

The rep notification could be helpful, as long as you could have the option to turn it of if you are someone who gets a lot of rep.

[Justin]

Main site suggestion - have you considered having a couple of mods for the "Intense Debate" comments on the main page? I don't think it would require a lot of work after the initial crackdown, but some of the anonymous users are causing issues on some posts. See here (http://www.zeldadungeon.net/2011/01/featured-fanart-the-great-sea/#idc-container), for example, with some of the "Dark Master" imitators. Mods could delete spam and encourage people to get official accounts in cases like that.

There is a report option with comments. If you click the report link, and it seems like spam, I'll usually delete it. If its a concern, I guess we could have some mods that read through comments each day and delete various bad comments.


The rep notification could be helpful, as long as you could have the optionto turn it of if you are someone who gets a lot of rep.

If you've received reputation recently, there are notifications for it.

[Mr.Verto]

Here is a little suggestion...

When you read a thread it is marked as read (if it was unread) and thats okay, but the problem is when you check your own thread. I believe its better that if you read your own thread you dont mark it, its like killing your thread just because you want to check it....

I hope you take this in consideration

[February Eve]

There is a report option with comments. If you click the report link, and it seems like spam, I'll usually delete it. If its a concern, I guess we could have some mods that read through comments each day and delete various bad comments.

I've used the report button before, but only when something seems very offensive (inappropriate language, for example.) I was thinking more of the comments that were spammy but inoffensive enough that I otherwise wouldn't normally clutter your inbox with, considering how much else you have to do. ;) My concern was just that some anonymous users - or perhaps one making multiple comments - seem to feel they can run rampant. I think if you had one person to read through the posts each day people would quickly catch on that they can't do that any more. Obviously, up to you, but I personally like it when news posts are moderated (some of the magazines I go to have a horrible problem with that.)

Different question, but I was curious, is there a reason behind the 1000 character limit in group messages? Any possibility it could be lifted or at even just raised a bit? Sometimes it takes effect with even two paragraphs...we do a lot of updates in my group, and it would be useful if all members could post a little more.

[Jedizora]

If you've received reputation recently, there are notifications for it.
I jsut got rep and It didn't notify me. Also could this rep be removed? It was just some body who just said"trololo". AT least it only took away 4 rep.

[Baysiderulez]

Here is a little suggestion...

When you read a thread it is marked as read (if it was unread) and thats okay, but the problem is when you check your own thread. I believe its better that if you read your own thread you dont mark it, its like killing your thread just because you want to check it....

I hope you take this in consideration

When you mark a thread as read, its only marking it on your Login Account, no one elses... IF you would like to see when updates occur, you can subscribe to your thread then it is available in your UserCp (Settings) and you also have the option of having it email you at every post or each day there is a reply.

[Meego]

Hey, you know the rep notification thing? That's a really good idea and I would find that useful...wait...you said it is in action. I got rep recently and no notification.

[Justin]

I've used the report button before, but only when something seems very offensive (inappropriate language, for example.) I was thinking more of the comments that were spammy but inoffensive enough that I otherwise wouldn't normally clutter your inbox with, considering how much else you have to do. ;) My concern was just that some anonymous users - or perhaps one making multiple comments - seem to feel they can run rampant. I think if you had one person to read through the posts each day people would quickly catch on that they can't do that any more. Obviously, up to you, but I personally like it when news posts are moderated (some of the magazines I go to have a horrible problem with that.)

Different question, but I was curious, is there a reason behind the 1000 character limit in group messages? Any possibility it could be lifted or at even just raised a bit? Sometimes it takes effect with even two paragraphs...we do a lot of updates in my group, and it would be useful if all members could post a little more.

I thought I removed the 100 character limit for the groups? If its there I'll remove it. Sorry.


Hey, you know the rep notification thing? That's a really good idea and I would find that useful...wait...you said it is in action. I got rep recently and no notification.

That got lost through the recent site crash. I've just recently re-added it.

[Mr.Verto]

I got a great idea...though its complicated

Why not have a ZD newspaper...

You can subscribe to it in the Market for a certain amount of points, at least more than 500 or 600 so that only intersted members of the Forums are able to subscribe and not having to send it to every new member.

It could be simple just like sending a PM to all subscribers. We could announce the hot thread of the week, birthdays, maaybe even a contest and perhaps a little article about anything happening in ZD or Zelda stuff.

I know it sounds complicated but im sure that if a group sets to do it, it is possible....

[MrLuigi]

http://www.zeldadungeon.net/Zelda09-the-wind-waker-characters.php#Link

It includes Twilight Princess's characters too.

[Turo602]

Is it possible for someone to fix my rep? I just got bad rep for "double posting" in this thread-http://zeldadungeon.net/forum/showthread.php?16496-Xbox-Live-Worth-Getting-how-Does-It-Work&p=226545#post226545

I just posted twice because the person with the question wanted to find out about games at the time. Why should I have to edit my post to add to it when I want the person with the question to know that I have more to say so that way he is informed. Which by the way wasn't even double posting. It's called posting more then once in a thread.

[LANZZ]

Any mods should make a new sticky thread called ZD Image Gallery Achive, in Restricted > Private Boards > Site Projects...

In this thread, ZD members can post any pictures that should be add to ZD Gallery; like Box-Arts, Official Wallpapers, Manual Scans, Official Artworks, Strategy Guide scans, and otherS...

[Djinn]

Could have a Today's Posts button added? The everything posted in the last 24 hours option. The What's New is useful but too often I seem to remain logged in after leaving for a while and miss posts. Plus it would be nice to look over the bumped posts of the day quickly without having to check each and every section if I have already been to the forum once.

Also I check this place often during the day on my iPod but rarely have the time to look around at most of the new posts.. Since it counts as having been here, the what's new button updates from that point on.

[Djinn]

This switch already exists, but for some reason you only see when your logged out and it is located under the "Fourms" button.

Yea it is not very helpful for me when I have to log out each time I want to use it. Why not just add it to the forum actions drop down menu. We have enough large blue buttons at the top of the screen.

[Kybyrian]

This switch already exists, but for some reason you only see when your logged out and it is located under the "Fourms" button.

It's still located under the "Forums" button, but under a new name. It says "New Posts" instead of "Today's Posts". It has the same function.


Could have a Today's Posts button added? The everything posted in the last 24 hours option. The What's New is useful but too often I seem to remain logged in after leaving for a while and miss posts. Plus it would be nice to look over the bumped posts of the day quickly without having to check each and every section if I have already been to the forum once.

Also I check this place often during the day on my iPod but rarely have the time to look around at most of the new posts.. Since it counts as having been here, the what's new button updates from that point on.

"What's New" at the top of the forum index has the exact same function as the "Today's Posts" link that you see when you logout and the "New Posts" link that replaces it when you log back in (located under the "Forums" button). This shows all posts that you have not read for some amount of time.

EDIT: Never mind, I noticed a small difference in the links when you log out and the one that's there when you log back in. Justin should probably replace the link in the top left of the forum index with the daily posts link, or the What's New. For now use this link instead of logging out: http://zeldadungeon.net/forum/search.php?do=getdaily&contenttype=vBForum_Post

[LANZZ]

You should make flash games section for ZD. Anyone can copy these games to their website or blog for free...

1) The Legend of Zelda - Seeds of Darkness (http://www.gamebrew.com/game/zelda-seed-darkness/play)

2) The Legend of Zelda - The Lampshade of No Real Significance (http://www.gamebrew.com/game/zelda-lampshade/play)

3) Link Valentine's Quest (http://www.gamebrew.com/game/zelda-valentines/play)

4) Zelda Flash Game (http://www.gamebrew.com/game/zelda/play)


Other suggestion...

a) - Award Page (new site page) = Here, you can find any achievements that the site has won over the course of its existance...

b) - Fan Fictions Page (new site page) - ZD Fan Fiction archive. Here, you can read stories written by ZD members...

c) - "ZD on Devianart" quick button (just like Facebook, Twitter, WordPress, and Youtube quick buttons at the top of the site)...

d) - "ZD on Ustream" quick button...

e) - Any mods should make a new sticky thread called ZD Image Gallery Achive, in Restricted > Private Boards > Site Projects...

In this thread, ZD members can post any pictures that should be add to ZD Gallery; like Box-Arts, Official Wallpapers, Manual Scans, Official Artworks, Strategy Guide scans, and others...

[Turo602]

I just noticed that we have an Ocarina of Time section. Wouldn't it be easier to have a section called Zelda Games and have a bunch of sub forums to each specific game? Of course Skyward Sword could still have it's own due to being the latest unreleased and the most unknown game. Until it's release it could be added of course.