Time for RiD to go?
- StoneCold Skywarp
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Time for RiD to go?
It's open to you guys, should the Robots in Disguise section of the site be scrapped? Lack of content being the main reason.
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And if you're so inclined, leave a message with what you think should replace it!!
Vote Now!!
And if you're so inclined, leave a message with what you think should replace it!!
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- StoneCold Skywarp
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Might as well lump it in with Armada.
I had an idea about new names for the sections though...
How about G1/G2 being together as Transformers 1984-1995, and Beast Wars/Beast Machines being Transformers 1996-2001, and RiD/Armada being Transformers 2001 - present? I mean, have the dates as subtitles with catchier names for the actual sections of course.
The VoC layout may work for the other sections too, or some variation of it, dunno what you're planning on doing.
I would like to chip in that I think the site should go with more graphics. We have the quality content, now let's add more of the flash bang stuff to attract attention.
I had an idea about new names for the sections though...
How about G1/G2 being together as Transformers 1984-1995, and Beast Wars/Beast Machines being Transformers 1996-2001, and RiD/Armada being Transformers 2001 - present? I mean, have the dates as subtitles with catchier names for the actual sections of course.
The VoC layout may work for the other sections too, or some variation of it, dunno what you're planning on doing.
I would like to chip in that I think the site should go with more graphics. We have the quality content, now let's add more of the flash bang stuff to attract attention.
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The predacons from RID were not the predacons from Beast Wars era
and there were no maximals in RID (Except 1 toy but that's beside the point)
In the japanese Car Robots (which is what RID came from) has Cybertrons and Destrongers (no predicon\Decepticon devision)
In Beast Wars The maximals actually take up residance just out side the Ark from G1
and there were no maximals in RID (Except 1 toy but that's beside the point)
In the japanese Car Robots (which is what RID came from) has Cybertrons and Destrongers (no predicon\Decepticon devision)
In Beast Wars The maximals actually take up residance just out side the Ark from G1
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Would put me off visiting it, for one. Any graphics require careful filesize optimisation. I'd like to see this place accessible to as many people as possible... the fixed-width format (whilst irritating to anyone still stuck with 640x480) has been a step in the right direction, catering for the two main screen resolutions.Originally posted by Sir Auros
I would like to chip in that I think the site should go with more graphics. We have the quality content, now let's add more of the flash bang stuff to attract attention.
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Ahh. I see. I was under the impression that RiD was a continuation of Beast Wars, in a different continuity from Beast Machines. I knew Skybyte was a repaint of Cybershark, but I read somewhere( the name eludes me, I was only there once.) that Skybyte wasn't just a repaint of Cybershark, rather, he WAS Cybershark, and had been reprogrammed by Megatron. But that does clarify things, quite a bit. I always wondered how the Predacons had returned to the size of Autobots and Decepticons, and why there were no Maximals with the Autobots. Maybe the merge with Armada might work, after all.
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Would put me off visiting it, for one. Any graphics require careful filesize optimisation. I'd like to see this place accessible to as many people as possible...
Being acessible doesn't make things anymore attractive or interesting though...besides, I'm sure Warp or yourself are more than capable of making graphics with small filesizes.
Whereas it's a definite fact that making things inaccessible reduces their appeal.Originally posted by Sir Auros
Being acessible doesn't make things anymore attractive or interesting though...
Graphics a) eat more production time, b) involve larger filesizes, c) are more time-consuming to update... and if it's a choice between getting up quality content and making a sparse collection of content look pretty...
Do you think a lot of time would be spent updating the images after the initial change? I'm not saying that all the menus should be graphics or anything, but that there should be more images on the site and in the menus - not leading to the sections, but to the side explaining the whole section or something.
Ok, something I'd suggested to Warp a while back about redoing the different sections was to have an image on the left side of the screen with either some sort of smooth collage of the series in the section, or a single, representative character with a little monologue describing the series and the sections within that section.
Visual explanation...
Visual explanation...