Awesome thanks for the update Kryo!!

Remember, all members view points will be taken into acound, so contribute at will. Also, remember to keep it simple and well be sure to answere all your questions

Time to start the debate.. eh Mumble   

I think what brackets and divisions there will be should be decided by the Council, but the ones you suggested are probably what it will end up being.

Kryo,heres another small question. Are new medals hard to incorporate?

Okay thats cool(hope it works), well ill see how the Council is faring in the Core, well get back to you.

Seems that this thread does not come up if I enter the forums through the everything link on the main page. Kind of strange, since other threads in this category come up fine. I hope this isn't limiting exposure.


Edit: just realized this is stickied in the meta category, meaning it doesn't come up when going to everything. So you have to come to the meta category to see it. Still a little limiting.

Edit: just realized this is stickied in the meta category, meaning it doesn't come up when going to everything. So you have to come to the meta category to see it. Still a little limiting.

The Off Topic thread isn't visible through the Everything link either and sometimes it seems that that's one of the most popular forums. The best way to really see everything is to click on the Forums link on the home page and then click on the More Recent Posts link at the bottom of the page. This truly shows everything. The one downside is you can't create a new thread from their but of course you can reply to threads your viewing.

BTW guys the point of this thread is for people to post suggestions not for general Metaverse Council conversation. I'm going to open up another (non sticky) thread like a thread that all the empires use. We don't need to be totally religious about it, but we should move most of this over to the new thread.

This might be a tad OT, but I'd like to suggest making registration at the Core easier.

I wear glasses, but my scrip is current. Still, I could not make the 'bot-guard believe I was human no matter how faithfully I thought I reproduced the strings.

I also think it might make the site more inviting if you split registration into two phases so that a new user could focus on required fields before having to bother with the full range of account settings.

Is there a place where non members of the Council can see the progresses?  

Please excuse my idiocy, but I'm just starting to read up on the alt metaverse and am not quite sure I understand what direction you're going. I'd like to post this on the MEtaverse section of the guide I wrote... but I should have a clue before I did that - hehe.
Is there a quick way to bring me up to speed? Mumble, when you said I've been disappointed in how little progress it appears to most folks that we've been making, but I assure you that the Council has been hard at work with the mundane tasks what are you referring to? Is this all geared towards the alternate Metaverse, or the whole Galactic Core site?

Thanks

jpinard - I believe you will find that this is geared toward the altmeta and the official meta too. I believe the idea is to bring more awareness to the GCII player of the benefits that the metaverse provides by creating incentives through medals / rankings and the like whick are more 'realistic' than the official meta scores .Another aim may be to bring attention to the Empires and the merits of joining one ,and indeed promoting the smaller empires.
I hope I have answered some of your questions. I am sure Mumble will be along soon to clarify anything I may have missrepresented   






edit; You must have got there as I was typing Mumble. Good to see you   

I am assuming that you're talking about the Core and I can see how it can appear that way at first glance (or even 2nd and 3rd). I'm just a member there but I'll be sure to pass along your comments to the management there. The intent is that unregistered folks can read all the public forums but not post. Registered folks are free (and encouraged) to post to any public forum. I know that for example in the Metaverse forum that most of the posts are from Metaverse Council (MVC) members and the general public might look at that and be inhibited from contributing. That is not the case. We do want input from all about anything that interests them. Why we have the bulk of our discussions there versus here is mainly because most of what’s been discussed have been mundane issues about how MVC business is conducted. Most of this is extremely boring. I would encourage everyone to not be put off by what can admittedly be confusing. The Core has been around for quite sometime but has recently been going through a tremendous growth spurt. All I can say is that it’s worth the time it takes to poke around a bit and figure out what’s going on, and please don’t be shy, feel free to chime in on any topic that interests you.

The MVC is currently working on three major tasks that should be of interest to the average metaverse player. Again we’re keeping the preliminary discussions at the Core simply so that we can come to agreement about what it is that we’re recommending. However, anything of significance will be thoroughly discussed here before implementation. I don’t really want to steal the thunder of more “official” announcements to come about these issues, but to quickly summarize we’re coming up with a plan to institute brackets in the AltMeta so that people can compete more fairly with people that play similar type games. We’re also conducting an email outreach program to make contact with metaverse players that have become isolated from other players, in some cases even players within the same empire. We’re also working on a Metaverse Blog that will be the “official” mechanism for the MVC to make announcements and for folks to get a summary of what’s going on in the MVC without having to wade through twenty mostly boring threads. Actually this Metaverse Blog will not be limited to just MVC related concerns but will address all things metaverse as well as GalCiv2 topics not even related to the Metaverse.

I do appreciate your input particularly when it's so obviously intended to be constructive. For now we’re staying away from trying to make any changes to the “official” metaverse for a couple of reasons. Although Stardock has often demonstrated the willingness to consider player requested changes, it’s not something that you can depend on. Even if they decide to implement some player requested change, the timeframe and details of the change are not something that there’s much player control over. Finally, you do need to realize that such requests are effectively asking Stardock to spend time and resources for free, that’s not really a fair thing to ask of them.

Our point of making changes to the AltMeta is that, as a player sponsored site, it’s something that we *can* change ourselves. Also, if we can implement the things we want *and* it’s apparent that these changes are something that the general GalCiv2 community appreciate, then we feel Stardock is far more likely to consider their implementation. Finally, the Metaverse Council (MVC) as an entity has yet to actually accomplish anything, why should Stardock consider the suggestions of a random group of a few players. If the Metaverse Council (MVC) is successful in demonstrating that it can accomplish something positive *and* speak for a wide range of players, then again, Stardock is far more likely to consider our requests. In any case we feel that it’s in everyone’s best interest to wait until the MVC has “proven” themselves before trying to suggest changes to the “official” metaverse.

Its nice to see a few new faces in this thread.

By the way, everyone is welcome to state their opinion here or at the Core. Nothing would be thought of as a critique as long as its put in a friendly maner.