NO. Don't click New Thread. Read the rules. I don't give a damn how long or boring they are. If you do not, you will be subject to massive flaming and criticism by yours truly.
When creating a suggestion, it is important to remember that the suggestion is your brainchild, your idea, your thought! You more than likely want to ensure that you appear rational, educated, and interested in the opinion of others. You will need to be able to take hostile feedback and genuine criticism while avoiding the trappings of a petulant child. Yes, this means that you'll go in knowing that your article will be trolled and being mature enough to handle the criticism.
Minecraft, as you may already know; is a globally popular video game. Its forums are quite populated as well, this includes the suggestions forum. The unfortunate news is, that with the sheer volume of new one-time faces, it is approaching impossible for a unique suggestion to appear. The rafters are filling with repeated suggestions; and the thousands of pages lay buried as a hallowed cemetary, holding the unfortunate victims of circumstance. Because of this, current forum members, myself included, recommend that all posters use search before posting their suggestion.
2) Championing
It is unavoidable, on occasion, to find nothing through consecutive searches and feel it safe to post a "unique" suggestion only to find that it has INDEED been suggested before. Often, the referred suggestion is poorly stated, unreasonable, or broken. When you encounter a setting such as that, do not lose faith, bolster yourself.
If you spent 15~20 minutes to write your suggestion only to find some moron spent 3 seconds about a month ago on his. Yours clearly has more weight. CHAMPION your thread. Post on that loser's thread, referring everyone to your thread. If possible, get a mod to close that inferior thread and make your thread the "OFFICIAL" thread for that suggestion. As a champion, refer all others to your thread; if a new thread is started which is the same as yours, refer them to your article and report their thread as redundant (provide a link to your thread in your report AND reply). Do your best to ensure that your idea is well recieved and garners support.
AHEM!!!
Also take into consideration to think of other well-versed members as well. If you spent 15~20 minutes writing an article, and you notice another poster with a well-written and well-described article with considerable input of time as well; it would be disasterous to wage a war with this other person claiming that your thread is more official than theirs.
Private message the person and come up to a mutually acceptable result. This usually means to get the threads merged or one helps out the other. If their thread's existed for a while and has significant feedback, champion their thread! Make their thread your own. Help the other poster, back him up. It is still YOUR idea, nevermind that someone else shares it and has come up with it first. If you LIKE an idea, it doesn't matter WHO comes up with it, right? Right!
3) Solidarity and the power of Voice
What it comes down to is SOLIDARITY. If your suggestion is worth posting, it is worth solidifying. What better way than for strong intelligent individuals to build the suggestion from a dirt hovel to a magnificient castle? You can't get solidarity from making 300 suggestions that all say the same thing. Sure, there's popularity, but there is no voice; there is no power. No one will listen to you if you don't have likeminded individuals backing you up.
I've seen far too many people say that "more suggestions show Notch that an idea is popular" which sounds reasonable until the logic hits like a ton of bricks. Even if there's 300 threads for guns, they're not all going to be on a single page. They'll be spread throughout the 300 threads related to redstone, obsidian tools, backpacks, wolves, maps, armor tiers, pistons, etc. A single thread with 30+ pages shows solidarity and support far better than 30 threads about the same thing.
4) How should I write my suggestions?
Here's a good template:
The thread's subject head should always be a small sentence to help Notch or the reader quickly identify what the subject is about. Notch used the example: "Wolves should howl at the moon."
The body is involving and invasive, I'll break it down as best I can. I would say to have AT LEAST these parts. It would be preferable to have far more than what is prescribed though.
A) Introduction
The introduction is a short greeting of self or a quick rhetorical question; "Do you find it odd that wolves don't howl at the moon to signify night?"
The introduction should also include WHY you propose the suggestion, what purposes it can serve, and how you believe it will improve the game, "I think they should howl; it gives the player a clear warning of night. This can be very useful when in a cave so you know to get ready for a fight."
:cool.gif: Body
The body should always announce major points in detail. A good rule of thumb is it answer the 5 questions. Who, what, when, where, why? Ask these repeatedly toward different aspects of your suggestion. Why are the wolves howling? When do they howl? Why is this necessary? How far will the player hear the howl? What is the crafting recipe?
Come up with the answers. Invariably these answers will open more questions. Answer these, and keep repeating until your suggestion is fully fleshed out (to the best of your ability)
Ask more open ended "Do wolves have a howling animation?", "Can wolves attack while howling?", "Will wolves howl at a new moon?", "Will a wolf howl if alone?", again answer the questions, question the answers, then answer those questions. When done, you'll have a solid 3 or so paragraphs, possibly more.
C) Pros and Cons
What are the positive and negative effects. Make sure you get feedback from other posters and edit your op with the information you gather. Use this to strengthen or adapt your suggestion to a much more conducive system. This allows you to remove the cons and strengthen the pros (which will improve the success of the suggestion).
D) Recap and Conclusion
Restate the topic and body of the suggestion in 1 sentence, "I think that having wolves howl at the moon will be a great benefit to the players because it improves immersion, helps the player determine when it becomes night, and makes wolves look even cooler!"
Restate the pros and cons in a single sentence, "While I can see a few problems with this suggestion, I definitely feel there are more pros than cons and am interested in seeing this as a vanilla inclusion toward minecraft."
Make a few closing remarks, anything will work, "I am open to criticism to help improve the idea, I thank you for your time and hope to see some feedback!"
AND YOUR DONE... well... almost.
4a) You see, you cannot forget this. Even the brightest and well-educated can make a mistake. Some of us can't spell. It is important to use spell check and proofread to ensure that the material is truly worth reading.
5) RECEPTION
Not going to lie here, some ideas a better recieved than others. The suggested method listed above is intended to polarize your audience. Your audience is either going to be completely on-board with the idea or will reject it outright. This is actually desirable. You want true opinions and true commitments, "Meh" and "It's alright" are the bane of suggestors as it does nothing to improve the suggestion.
While shopping for an engagement ring, I had narrowed down the ring to one of two designs. When I asked a friend for help deciding , he told me that either ring looked good. Do you think this brought me closer to finding the engagement ring? I don't think I could have hit him hard enough when I got the response. While a suggestion is far more trivial than a marraige proposal, I hope you can see how it would be a boiling annoyance to get inept responses when you want solid feedback.
As a general rule, the more well-written an article is, the less likely the article is to be flamed. I've actually seen well-made gun suggestions which did not get outright flamed.
There are many tricks to writing a good suggestion, this is a lenghty comprehensive guide on how to write a suggestion; however, I would not strand you on your own.
If you ever have any questions about writing a suggestion, please feel free to private message me and I'll be happy to assist you in any way I can.
First read that ^ then look at this http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/12129-may-2nd-2011-already-posted-topics/ , then realize that you can only post 1 suggestion per thread and the fact that all those are kinda pointless. . . BLUE FEATHERS? Have you even seen a penguin? And what the hell would be the point of half those. . .
Sorry,Im actually new.Im just a tree Puncher.
Oh,and THIS WAS A FIRST POST!!!
You're not new. You're someone that only made a few posts, but has been on the forums for a bit less than a month. Always, AHEM, Always look at the rules before posting on any forum.
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:angry.gif: =Aggresive/Hostile
:smile.gif: Penguin
Can be tamed with 3-6 snowballs
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Drops 1-5 Blue Feathers
:mellow.gif: Swimy(Its how you spell it,so whatever.)
Has
Drops Ereasers
Can be tamed with ereasers
:smile.gif: Duck(Not copying Mo' Creatures!)
Has
:angry.gif: Cobble Chicken
Has
Turns you into cobblestone for a short time when touched
:mellow.gif: Block Man
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:angry.gif: Evil Penguin
Has
:angry.gif: Evil Swimy
Has
Post more ideas down below!
First guess is a sperm cell.
Second guess is those orange things kids wear on their arms in the pool.
...It got ReRE psted.A swimy is a fish ereaser(Typo!).
Wrong,and Wrong.Its a fish ereaser(Typo!)
*Opera Voice*
/THREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAD
No...
Seriously.... You NEED THIS.
MAKING A SUGGESTION
Minecraft, as you may already know; is a globally popular video game. Its forums are quite populated as well, this includes the suggestions forum. The unfortunate news is, that with the sheer volume of new one-time faces, it is approaching impossible for a unique suggestion to appear. The rafters are filling with repeated suggestions; and the thousands of pages lay buried as a hallowed cemetary, holding the unfortunate victims of circumstance. Because of this, current forum members, myself included, recommend that all posters use search before posting their suggestion.
If you spent 15~20 minutes to write your suggestion only to find some moron spent 3 seconds about a month ago on his. Yours clearly has more weight. CHAMPION your thread. Post on that loser's thread, referring everyone to your thread. If possible, get a mod to close that inferior thread and make your thread the "OFFICIAL" thread for that suggestion. As a champion, refer all others to your thread; if a new thread is started which is the same as yours, refer them to your article and report their thread as redundant (provide a link to your thread in your report AND reply). Do your best to ensure that your idea is well recieved and garners support.
AHEM!!!
Also take into consideration to think of other well-versed members as well. If you spent 15~20 minutes writing an article, and you notice another poster with a well-written and well-described article with considerable input of time as well; it would be disasterous to wage a war with this other person claiming that your thread is more official than theirs.
Private message the person and come up to a mutually acceptable result. This usually means to get the threads merged or one helps out the other. If their thread's existed for a while and has significant feedback, champion their thread! Make their thread your own. Help the other poster, back him up. It is still YOUR idea, nevermind that someone else shares it and has come up with it first. If you LIKE an idea, it doesn't matter WHO comes up with it, right? Right!
I've seen far too many people say that "more suggestions show Notch that an idea is popular" which sounds reasonable until the logic hits like a ton of bricks. Even if there's 300 threads for guns, they're not all going to be on a single page. They'll be spread throughout the 300 threads related to redstone, obsidian tools, backpacks, wolves, maps, armor tiers, pistons, etc. A single thread with 30+ pages shows solidarity and support far better than 30 threads about the same thing.
Here's a good template:
The thread's subject head should always be a small sentence to help Notch or the reader quickly identify what the subject is about. Notch used the example: "Wolves should howl at the moon."
The body is involving and invasive, I'll break it down as best I can. I would say to have AT LEAST these parts. It would be preferable to have far more than what is prescribed though.
A) Introduction
The introduction is a short greeting of self or a quick rhetorical question; "Do you find it odd that wolves don't howl at the moon to signify night?"
The introduction should also include WHY you propose the suggestion, what purposes it can serve, and how you believe it will improve the game, "I think they should howl; it gives the player a clear warning of night. This can be very useful when in a cave so you know to get ready for a fight."
:cool.gif: Body
The body should always announce major points in detail. A good rule of thumb is it answer the 5 questions. Who, what, when, where, why? Ask these repeatedly toward different aspects of your suggestion. Why are the wolves howling? When do they howl? Why is this necessary? How far will the player hear the howl? What is the crafting recipe?
Come up with the answers. Invariably these answers will open more questions. Answer these, and keep repeating until your suggestion is fully fleshed out (to the best of your ability)
Ask more open ended "Do wolves have a howling animation?", "Can wolves attack while howling?", "Will wolves howl at a new moon?", "Will a wolf howl if alone?", again answer the questions, question the answers, then answer those questions. When done, you'll have a solid 3 or so paragraphs, possibly more.
C) Pros and Cons
What are the positive and negative effects. Make sure you get feedback from other posters and edit your op with the information you gather. Use this to strengthen or adapt your suggestion to a much more conducive system. This allows you to remove the cons and strengthen the pros (which will improve the success of the suggestion).
D) Recap and Conclusion
Restate the topic and body of the suggestion in 1 sentence, "I think that having wolves howl at the moon will be a great benefit to the players because it improves immersion, helps the player determine when it becomes night, and makes wolves look even cooler!"
Restate the pros and cons in a single sentence, "While I can see a few problems with this suggestion, I definitely feel there are more pros than cons and am interested in seeing this as a vanilla inclusion toward minecraft."
Make a few closing remarks, anything will work, "I am open to criticism to help improve the idea, I thank you for your time and hope to see some feedback!"
AND YOUR DONE... well... almost.
4a) You see, you cannot forget this. Even the brightest and well-educated can make a mistake. Some of us can't spell. It is important to use spell check and proofread to ensure that the material is truly worth reading.
While shopping for an engagement ring, I had narrowed down the ring to one of two designs. When I asked a friend for help deciding , he told me that either ring looked good. Do you think this brought me closer to finding the engagement ring? I don't think I could have hit him hard enough when I got the response. While a suggestion is far more trivial than a marraige proposal, I hope you can see how it would be a boiling annoyance to get inept responses when you want solid feedback.
As a general rule, the more well-written an article is, the less likely the article is to be flamed. I've actually seen well-made gun suggestions which did not get outright flamed.
There are many tricks to writing a good suggestion, this is a lenghty comprehensive guide on how to write a suggestion; however, I would not strand you on your own.
If you ever have any questions about writing a suggestion, please feel free to private message me and I'll be happy to assist you in any way I can.
OFFICIAL POSTING/REPLYING GUIDELINES
UNOFFICIAL POSTING GUIDE (PRT)
UNOFFICIAL REPLYING GUIDE (FTC)
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Oh,and THIS WAS A FIRST POST!!!
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Retired StaffYou're not new. You're someone that only made a few posts, but has been on the forums for a bit less than a month. Always, AHEM, Always look at the rules before posting on any forum.
I am the bone of my sword
Steel is my body, and fire is my blood
I have created over a thousand blades
Unknown to death, Nor known to life
Have withstood pain to create many weapons
Yet, those hands will never hold anything
So as I pray, Unlimited Blade Works