Conquer Club

Concise description:

• For people who do not want to post in the Forums or participate in games, make membership optional.

Specifics/Details:

• Essentially, anyone who did not have plans to ever post in the forums or play a game would not be required to create a Conquer Club account.

How this will benefit the site and/or other comments:

• it will provide greater options

edit - poll added

What options would it provide?

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I feel that this should be moved to Implemented Suggestions.

It's good to see the new administration making progress with these suggestions.

can we have a poll

saxitoxin wrote:Concise description:

• For people who do not want to post in the Forums or participate in games, make membership optional.

Specifics/Details:

• Essentially, anyone who did not have plans to ever post in the forums or play a game would not be required to create a Conquer Club account.

How this will benefit the site and/or other comments:

• it will provide greater options

are you talking about lurkers
who can watch games see some of the forum but cant play or post so no account required
which could lead them into joining if they like what they see
i would like to see when im playing a game if someone is watching.
like in the forum you can see who is online Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 0 guests ETC.

sorry but I'm not sure i get this.. why would someone create an account that would not permit him to play and/or post? it's kind of the only things you can do. And if you are not interested in forums or games, why click on it... is this for forum/game addicts desiring to put themselves in rehab?

there are forums out there in the www where you dont need an account but you can browse the site without creating an account fly on the wall window shopping etc.
i just joined http://www.rodsnsods.co.uk/ after browsing got hooked and joined after an hour.

You can already browse the forums without logging in...

Is that what you mean?

The only change that I can see that moves towards this suggestion would be to make it so that you can view game pages (and game finder and related stuff) without logging in.

That said, I am going to wager that this is just a trollish suggestion that can be closed

I see the options, and they are many. A bright avenue, onward to the realm of Opportunity!

I'm going to go ahead and reject this as there is no reason to implement it.

EDIT: After further review, this has been reversed!

blakebowling wrote:I'm going to go ahead and reject this as there is no reason to implement it.

It would be nice to see games without an account needed. That is how I got hooked on CC. I saw a friend playing CC. The rest is history.

Bruceswar wrote:

blakebowling wrote:I'm going to go ahead and reject this as there is no reason to implement it.

It would be nice to see games without an account needed. That is how I got hooked on CC. I saw a friend playing CC. The rest is history.

This - when i first came to the site i wanted to see what i actually would be playing. Lucky enough i stuck around to see it.

It's free to make an account. I don't see the problem with doing that.

And I'm not sure that's what the OP was talking about anyway. He didn't make it real clear what his goal was.

Bruceswar wrote:

blakebowling wrote:I'm going to go ahead and reject this as there is no reason to implement it.

It would be nice to see games without an account needed. That is how I got hooked on CC. I saw a friend playing CC. The rest is history.

If this is what the OP is talking about, the post was worded poorly.

I'd be open to making games viewable when logged out. It may even draw people in (as they can look around before they have to sign up).

greenoaks wrote:can we have a poll

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So you could just go in and play games while playing from some sort of "guest" account or something? That sounds like a terrible idea.

I'm interested in details, as well. Saxitoxin, currently, members can view the forums while not logged in. They cannot view games.

Are you asking for view-only access, or beyond?

BMO

agentcom wrote:So you could just go in and play games while playing from some sort of "guest" account or something? That sounds like a terrible idea.

Not to play. Just to look @ games (and maps! One of the BIG selling points of the site!)
Hard to tell from the tiny maps the home page scrolls thru exactly how many and the variety of our maps contains. And you can't view ongoing games or how it all works until an account.

There was a recent situation in which someone who was giving free advertising for CC couldn't get any good screenshots, and ended up making CC look a lot worse then they could have.

IcePack wrote:

agentcom wrote:So you could just go in and play games while playing from some sort of "guest" account or something? That sounds like a terrible idea.

Not to play. Just to look @ games (and maps! One of the BIG selling points of the site!)
Hard to tell from the tiny maps the home page scrolls thru exactly how many and the variety of our maps contains. And you can't view ongoing games or how it all works until an account.

There was a recent situation in which someone who was giving free advertising for CC couldn't get any good screenshots, and ended up making CC look a lot worse then they could have.

In this case I'm completely reversing my earlier decision.

Back to the main forum.

As a rep of OT, I would like to point out that saxi was joking.

DoomYoshi wrote:As a rep of OT, I would like to point out that saxi was joking.

That's why I initially rejected it, but he has a point.

DoomYoshi wrote:As a rep of OT, I would like to point out that saxi was joking.

However, the idea of being able to view games/maps without being able to play to sort of "preview" the site, is something that I think might benefit the site. Thus if he was truly joking, then something perhaps meaningful has come out of his joke.