SpikeX
12-20-2007, 03:15 AM
Your site is great. It works 250% better than Guitar Hero's crappy community site, and you managed to keep the servers up, too. Hats off to you.
There are a few things I want to see on this site, though, for it to really be effective. First off: Who are you kidding? Putting a bunch of text boxes with titles isn't really a "profile". I could probably have typed whatever I wanted and nobody would have known or cared. It's not fun or interesting to type out our favorite this or that, or our first this or that. That's why we have sites like MySpace and Facebook. Don't reinvent the wheel, instead create something new.
Now what we don't have on this site is ANY sort of tracker for specific stats on a per-user basis. Here's what I want to see (you can call it my RB.com wish list :))
A list of recently played songs.
A complete play history with scores, if possible (I know this is probably tough, it can potentially get big. Maybe limit it to the last 100 played songs from any character?)
A list of the most frequently played songs.
A list of the top scoring songs from each instrument category.
A list of the top percentage-wise songs from each instument category (different from scoring, since scores are based on the length of each song).
A list of recent online activity in Band Quickplay Mode ("This player played When You Were Young with Person1 on drums, Person2 on bass, and Person4 on vocals." for example, with links to their profiles.)
A photo of each character. I know your characters must just be composed of multiple models with ID numbers (making it easy to transfer over the Internet), so why not just have a database of every type of face, hair, clothes, etc. and piece it all together into one image (on the fly, then saved/cached). At the very least try to get a face picture in (the clothes can probably get tricky).
A list of songs that the user has purchased.
Which console the user is playing on.
Previews of the songs / links to the songs on iTunes.
A schedule of all finalized downloadable content with titles, dates, and prices posted somewhere.
Show the character's rank without having to look on the Leaderboards, and showing a change over time, something like a week or two (i.e. "Casey - Drums - Career Rank: 1274 (+6)")
I hope you get some ideas, cause if you even only did half of these, it would still be freakin awesome. :)
There are a few things I want to see on this site, though, for it to really be effective. First off: Who are you kidding? Putting a bunch of text boxes with titles isn't really a "profile". I could probably have typed whatever I wanted and nobody would have known or cared. It's not fun or interesting to type out our favorite this or that, or our first this or that. That's why we have sites like MySpace and Facebook. Don't reinvent the wheel, instead create something new.
Now what we don't have on this site is ANY sort of tracker for specific stats on a per-user basis. Here's what I want to see (you can call it my RB.com wish list :))
A list of recently played songs.
A complete play history with scores, if possible (I know this is probably tough, it can potentially get big. Maybe limit it to the last 100 played songs from any character?)
A list of the most frequently played songs.
A list of the top scoring songs from each instrument category.
A list of the top percentage-wise songs from each instument category (different from scoring, since scores are based on the length of each song).
A list of recent online activity in Band Quickplay Mode ("This player played When You Were Young with Person1 on drums, Person2 on bass, and Person4 on vocals." for example, with links to their profiles.)
A photo of each character. I know your characters must just be composed of multiple models with ID numbers (making it easy to transfer over the Internet), so why not just have a database of every type of face, hair, clothes, etc. and piece it all together into one image (on the fly, then saved/cached). At the very least try to get a face picture in (the clothes can probably get tricky).
A list of songs that the user has purchased.
Which console the user is playing on.
Previews of the songs / links to the songs on iTunes.
A schedule of all finalized downloadable content with titles, dates, and prices posted somewhere.
Show the character's rank without having to look on the Leaderboards, and showing a change over time, something like a week or two (i.e. "Casey - Drums - Career Rank: 1274 (+6)")
I hope you get some ideas, cause if you even only did half of these, it would still be freakin awesome. :)
