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Post by Amy on Dec 31, 2014 13:48:41 GMT -7
Hey everyone!
I'm not back per say, but petz is calling me BIG time, so I will most likely be around more than I have been.
I am wanting to send out a big group email to all of DG Members to try an get this place active again.
This is where I need your help!
What kind of things would you like to see around here to help with activity?
What would you like to see stay, go, or be changed?
Do you think some cute adoptions or a project of some sort might spur some activity? How about a group contest of some sort?
Any and all Ideas / suggestions are greatly appreciated and welcome! Please share!
- Idea that just came to me; Puppy Group Classes where you send your puppy in and see them try to learn in a group. Chaos could errupt! Homework assignments would be sent home with the puppy for you to work on once puppy is home.
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Post by Shade on Dec 31, 2014 14:46:43 GMT -7
I love the idea of puppy classes. Though honestly I'm not sure I will be able to get into anything until the end of January. The computer I have now is annoyingly slow and I'm getting a new one then.
I would love to keep the sledding. I could open a few other competitions as well. Mousing, disk, ect. Maybe we could start doing a monthly drawing? I could breed some dogz/catz for that. We could submit petz and then once a month there would be a drawing for who gets the pet. I can also do a few regular adoptions of 'whatever you want to do with them' petz. Maybe a game play contest or two?
I really want to get back into DG I miss everyone here.
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Post by skissors on Jan 1, 2015 16:47:14 GMT -7
Yay for more activity! I love this place, but it's so hard to motivate myself to edit pictures and write posts when only like two people see it.
Puppy classes sound fun, although I don't know how many people have petz that aren't fully grown on Duke's Group. Although, that gives me an idea... maybe we could have an event/project where everybody gets a new puppy, and we could hold things like puppy classes and play dates. Heck, maybe we could even do a swap thing, where everyone submits a pup and get a random one back, and then that's their puppy for the event/project thing. We could maybe do a kitten one, too, and have kitten related events as well.
More contests would be great, and that raffle thing sounds nifty as well. And yes times 1000 to Gameplay Contests, I love those things. Maybe somebody could even host a Gameplay contest on RKC or one of the other more active forums, to sort of advertise for naturally raising/playing with your petz, and let more people who are into that sort of thing know about Duke's Group.
Speaking of Gameplay Contests, I came up with an idea recently that I think would work great on Duke's Group. What if, every day, there was a new random Gameplay contest-style activity posted somewhere. Something simple, like "Take you petz out for a snow day", "Find out one of your petz favorite toy", or "Teach you pet a new trick". You would by no means be required to do the task, but it could give an idea to those who don't know what to post about in their update thread.
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Post by Amy on Jan 1, 2015 23:22:47 GMT -7
Thank you so much for both of your input! Greatly appreciated!
While I was unable to get on the computer, I took Shade's idea and brainstormed on it coming up with this;
I think this is a good idea, but most people don't want to add more petz to their crew....
Solution!
I want to make a folder titled "Strays" where people can breed petz and send them in to be apart of the 'Stray' population.
Then we'll secretly draw a name and whoever's name is drawn, we email that person a surprise Stray pet.
That person will then put the pet in the game, come up with a story of how they found the pet, and try to find it a new home (or keep it if they wish) while updating on it and how it's doing and such.
They would all have to be bred with the original petz breeds or overwrites in.
What do you guys think?
Here's another thing. What ever we decide to do, someone else will need to be in charge of it all since I don't have much computer time anymore. I'll be on as often as I can, but Real life comes first.
I love all of the other ideas too! Feel free to start some of that stuff up. What ever new things open up will be included in the email I send out to everyone so people know what's going on.
For the puppy classes, it would also be for Adult Dogs, and cat classes as well.
I like your last idea too Skissors, I used to do that in our projects board but I stopped posting them every day.
Keep the ideas coming!
Hoping to see some other people pop on with some ideas too.
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Post by Shade on Jan 2, 2015 10:37:34 GMT -7
I like Skissors idea of getting new petz. I kinda planned on doing that anyways. I've just had no DG motivation lately and thought maybe adopting a brand new pup/kit from the adoption center would help me get back into it. I just need a computer that doesn't crash when I do photo editing programs such as gimp to be able to edit pics for my dg story petz. And the motivation to work on that.
The stray idea would be absolutely amazing. Maybe we could have a thread where all the strays lived? So if someone wanted they could 'find' a stray to adopt? I've got two huge folders of petz(catz and dogz) that are OBs/OWs only that we could pick and chose from. And then still take submissions.
I'd be willing to help with the drawing/grab bag/stray thing. Checking the board and sending petz out shouldn't be that big of a problem for me even when school starts back up again. If you know about when you're going to send out the email I can open up a handful of contests like the day before.
I know we've had similar projects before, but maybe a 'get as many titles as you can in a month' kind of thing on a pet? So everyone who participates picks a pet and enters them in shows on contests here, PKC, RKC, PCG, TPA, ect? And just try to get as many points and titles as possible.
Maybe have a 'blast from the past' kind of thing where people age down a pet or two and raise them again? Maybe even make that a game play. So we'd assume that everyone already knows these petz favorite food, toy, ect. because they've raised them once. So this could have different challenges like 'Find a friend that they didn't already have.' or 'take your pet to the vet' and use the vet check up thing we have on one of the threads and they have to follow those instructions?
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Post by skissors on Jan 2, 2015 12:27:21 GMT -7
First off, that stray idea sounds great! The entire Role playing aspect of Duke's Group has kinda disappeared, and I'd love to see that brought back, and I think this stray thing will defiantly encourage that. As for that place where the strays live idea, shade, perhaps we could start an offical Duke's Group Animal Shelter, where a small selection of petz could always be offered up. This could tie into the whole encouraging people to either replace or add new petz into their Duke's Group Crew, while also giving people who don't want a new stray pet a place to donate it.
Also, I can run the "task of the day" thing. I'll try and see if I can write a script to do it for me, else I'll just post a new one each day manually.
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Post by Amy on Jan 2, 2015 13:08:28 GMT -7
Thank you both! I think this sounds like a good idea, but would then resemble more of the adoption center. I would rather keep them all secret and each one would be a unique surprise. Some might also be pregnant, sick, or have an injury of some sort. Hexies and bred petz would all be accepted to be submitted. Maybe even petz who don't get adopted could be added to the 'stray' population and still remain apart of Duke's Group. That would be very helpful Shade! I will try to start it out, but if it proves too much for me I'll hand it all over to you! Thank you I always love these contests, but with everyone's motivation lacking, I'm afraid a contest like this would push people away instead of bringing everyone back. - Everyone, correct me if I'm wrong on this! I think this is a great idea! I was also thinking about some sort of 'Couples' contest taking everyone's main / favorite couple and doing some sort of contest with them. I do like this idea, but we used to have a rescue board and it just really didn't get used much at all. A lot like our adoption board. So I think we'll have to leave it out. Our current adoption center is for people needing to Re-home a DG member, Pick out a new DG member, and to post up any litters that have been born in need of a new home. It can also be used for any of the 'Strays' that are found looking for a new home and any puppies that come from them. Of course, The adoption center can also be used for random bred petz and hexies too That would be wonderful! Thank you! Feel free to get it started I'm also thinking about doing away with the Brag / Show off board since we mostly use our update threads now anyways. Thoughts on this? Keep the ideas coming! It'd also be helpful to hear what is NOT motivating for you guys too right now. That way we can try to stay clear of stuff like that.
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Post by Shade on Jan 2, 2015 14:23:16 GMT -7
I never use the Brag/Show off board but I know a handful of other members do. I think a lot of people use it for non-dg petz they want to show off. I'm not sure if they'd be okay with it being taken down or not. It seems to me this came up at some point before :/ but I really can't remember.
I think the couples idea is great. Oh! What about a week were we do like a 'resort' kind of thing. I could probably even run it as play group/date. For Valentines day? Where we have like a couples spa kind of thing going on? It could be a lot of fun. Have various things, grooming, exotic foods, ect.
Maybe we could do something as a group for valentines day? Do a raffle of some hexed/bred petz maybe some toyz or clothes that are exclusive for it? If there's interest I would be willing to run it and iron out details.
What about a monthly news letter kind of thing? Where we send out a mass email to members with things like "these contests are open", and "look here so-and-so are expecting/have had their litter" including birthday announcements for both petz and members? And who has what play groups/dates open? Maybe even do it bi-weekly? so twice a month. People can opt in or out of it maybe? And it would include large things such as any changes to rules on the forum, discussions such as this where thins are being decided ect. I'd be more than happy to write the news letters. Kinda like what Petzabloo started as? Only just on DG. I may have to pm Icciotto(probably on a site she's more active on) about the possibility of me starting a new news letter kind of site. And do over all community news but also do news for individual Forums so DG would have a section there. Not DG focused but I was just thinking...out loud doesn't really apply here but yeah.
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Post by Amy on Jan 2, 2015 15:18:00 GMT -7
I think those are all great ideas Shade! I love the Newsletter idea and have thought of that in the past, so feel free to start that up when ever you want!
The couples resort sounds great, but I'd also like to come up with a contest too, perhaps another spin off of the Game play contests.
Valentines day stuff sounds fun! I won't have time to make any toys or clothes for it though, so you'll have to see if anyone else would like to send stuff in.
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Post by Shade on Jan 2, 2015 19:19:53 GMT -7
Would an email type news letter, pm news letter, thread somewhere on the forum, or a website be best? I think the website would be a bit of a pain in the rear for now when I'm focused only on DG(once I talk to Icciotto and have a better idea of what I'd want to do that would be something else entirely). The thread on the forum would be easy to access for everyone and could provide an open communication however it might be easily over looked. An email or pm however doesn't have as easy of communication between the readers, it does for the person writing it and the readers. Or maybe a combination of both?
Edit: So I may have a problem with getting into contact with Iccitto. The last time she was on any where that I can find was May 9, 2014 Sending her a PM anyways but if I can't get a hold of her a website news letter may be problematic either way.
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