So I've got a real problem with Badspot not creating a better system to browse our addons. Sometimes when I look for a weapon or vehicle, its got a name such as "FCSRI Transport Truck" or such. Since the fall of RTB, there's no way to browse the add-on section for weapons and vehicles easily. You could search for items on the RTB archive, however there are no pictures included.
What do I want? A sub-sectioned add-on forum here at forum.blockland.us where you can view all the different type of addons together. When I want to browse to find a vehicle I want, I would simply scroll through the pages, clicking on the links and looking at the photos. Since we have all these different category add-ons, it'd take ages to do so.
So what did I do?
I sent the following PM to Rotondo and a similar one to Badspot.
I thought to include Rotondo in the matter as he recently tweeted a picture of one of my builds so I thought if my name is fresh in his head, he may consider agreeing with me, but as you might imagine, I had no reply. Here's the PM:
Hey Rotondo
I know you probably get a stuff load of messages concerning bullstuff that really isn't important, but I seriously think we need a more organised add-on section.
Due to the quantity of Blockland players rising in the last few years I think the add-on section was designed to have everything (weapons/vehicles/bricks/scripts) in one place, however this idea is very outdated, as add-ons are increasing at a large rate, we need a better system on the forums which can make it much easier to browse categories.
I hope as I consider myself a long time player of Blockland, you'll take this into consideration.
I was browsing the forums earlier today and came across this thread:
http://forum.blockland.us/index.php?topic=264232.0What a brilliant thread, I thought to myself. It lists a few combined brick packs which are useful!
However I don't think we should stop there.
What this forum needs is an add-on megathread. A thread in the add-on section which will have a list (like Emmanuel has done) but including images of these vehicles.
It may take a lot of time to search through the 2759 and retrieve pictures of every vehicle and weapon in the thread, but I think it would make it a lot easier for people to search for vehicles and weapons which they want to include in their server.
Maybe if we split the task up into different sections, so in each thread someone posts all the weapons, another person posts all the vehicles, and so on.
Perhaps in this format:
Add-on Name
Image here
This is basically my thoughts on how we can make the add-on section an easier place to browse.
Your thoughts? Negative/Positive. I'm open to hearing your views.
Oh, and I think its clear that I cant be bothered to do this, that's why I'm asking someone else to do it.
Update!Rotondo replied to the above message:
We've been considering it for a while, right now we're just working out some logistics of things before doing it.
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