So I'll keep it short,

I've mentioned this idea to Zefram but I haven't pursued asking the right people to make this happen.

There's no doubt in anyone's mind that plays in the competitive scene that our NS2 community is dwindling and the Seasons have been waning as well. This season is a perfect example of that with the amount of forfeits and disbands.

We need new ideas to bring in the new players and I think that our front page needs to focus not just on the content and builds, but it needs to tell every new player that there is a competitive scene.

We have NSL Servers, a Reddit Mumble for Pugs, but you hardly ever see Pubs talk about matches or how to join a team, they just may not know about these resources. I, like many, found the Reddit Pug by dumb luck by Googling about NS2 competition. It wasn't thrown in my face in the main menu, it was a curiosity.

Right now on our main menu, we're being advertised about the Reaper Pack and Build 270, I don't see anything that's spot lighting our competitive community. I think this needs to change, we need a "marketing" department to push and grow our competitive community.

People love to be a part of teams and organizations, we should foster that need and welcome everyone. We need to advertise this idea. Sure, this could be rebuilding, we won't see many Premier teams for awhile...whatever, the point of the league is to have fun and get better with people we get along with on a team.

CDT, I beg you to start using the front page for marketing our competitive scene. I think this is a good idea, and I haven't seen much of it before except for spurts where the World Championship was mentioned, or when Season champions were mentioned as well.

http://i.imgur.com/HGDhy0S.jpg

Our community thus far is about 321 people on average, with a low of 270. NS2 is not popular, it's a dying game, but there are so many people who we don't know in our community and don't support or even ask to join our competitive scene.

Let's make some changes and at least work on making our community more tight knit. We can worry about growth later, first things first though.

+1

There is a problem with this. You can't specifically mention a community site without having to mention every single other one. This is a whole can of worms that the cdt don't want to get into I would imagine, and I'm not speaking officially here. You can't 'advertise' the NSL without mentioning AusNS2 or Wooza's or TAW or NS2.pr or NS2FR the list goes on. Its just unfair because they are all communities that deserve equal attention.

It would however to have more access to the news feed to be able to advertise EVENTS instead, which is a little bit fairer to all the communities and there won't be an issue with favoritism. Maybe even a weekly or fortnightly update on the competitive scene. A representative from each community puts in a short snippet, kind of like a newsletter of the past 2 weeks or month. It would be up to the community rep to provide that to the collator so no blame could be put on the CDT for favouring any particular group over another.

Another idea is for the twitch api to be built into the main menu, which is becoming increasingly more viable with the possible new main menu (https://trello.com/c/Id2hUsmj/568-new-main-menu-concepts).

Either way, it is a great sentiment and I agree 100%

I also agree with this

We had a new formed team in season5 but some div1 players thought its a great idea to join a div4 team and stomp them out of the season.
As long something like this is possible this initiative is pretty useless.

dePARA says

We had a new formed team in season5 but some div1 players thought its a great idea to join a div4 team and stomp them out of the season.
As long something like this is possible this initiative is pretty useless.

I think you posted this in the wrong thread

this would apply for ensl only but it would be nice if you could have good overview about current events from ns2 main menu.

Basically like this

http://www.ensl.org/contests/current

Seb says

It would however to have more access to the news feed to be able to advertise EVENTS instead, which is a little bit fairer to all the communities and there won't be an issue with favoritism. Maybe even a weekly or fortnightly update on the competitive scene. A representative from each community puts in a short snippet, kind of like a newsletter of the past 2 weeks or month. It would be up to the community rep to provide that to the collator so no blame could be put on the CDT for favouring any particular group over another.

Another idea is for the twitch api to be built into the main menu, which is becoming increasingly more viable with the possible new main menu (https://trello.com/c/Id2hUsmj/568-new-main-menu-concepts).

A newsletter-thing would be nice. I think there is still happening enough stuff in NS2, that could fill a page or two per month or two weeks - and if it's just the latest NS2-giggle on youtube.

Implementing it into NS2-main-menu would be perfect.

If such a thing happens I would immediately assign a person in TAW to be your contact-person and content-creator.

i see the conserns of the CDT and its resonable but i see a solution how they could integrate it without haveing to favor any community.

it should be some kind of Tab in the mainmenu that is empty by default
but every community can put their own news feed into it when they mail the CDT and explain to which community they belong and what they want to post there.
This tab should look like this by default:
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News Feed:
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[] ensl.org
[] ausns2
[] wooza
[] Taw
[] NS2 CDT
[] Uwe
[] Ns2.pr
[] Ns2.pl
[] ns2.fr
[] lerk.de
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apply
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like this they dont favor any community but every player can select what he wants to read from the main menu.

When you have a lot added it would probly look like:

News Feed:
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ensl.org:
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New Match scheduled 19.12.2014 19.30 CET : Division 3 Semifinals - Destiny's Child vs A CERTAIN VERMIN casted by TBA
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TAW:
Welcome our new member Kelmops
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NS2CDT_twitter:
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Last playtest was a sucess patch will be released shortly :)
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add/deleate News_Feed


probly shouldnt display all with a "more" button on the bottom
but thats in general how they be fair about it.


anyway thats kinda how it could be.