Here's a spiffy HTML-based chat with a lot of features. Once you've figured out how it works it's very nice.

-> Create a OTF Entertainment Page On facebook.
(if you need to see an example of how this could work, i would refer you to the Steam facebook page)
-> Create a OTF Entertaiment Blog ( for us in the coalition government to update)
-> Create RSS Feeds for entertainment, so those who subscribe can have them delivered straight to their inbox's.

Not too long and there will be The Old Republic, hopefully the most awesome MMORPG ever
I expect it to draw more attention back to Star Wars so we need something on that as well. ( Gaming job, I guess)
News, a guild / guilds perhaps?
We shouldn't miss hopping on that train next year.

The homepage needs to go. It advertises three separate genre chats, when they were all amalgamated into one a while ago. As much as the homepage was great, back in the day, it should be updated.

Hal and Iain are great, but having a couple more hands on leaders might help. Even if it's just someone there for PR reasons and to field issues/complaints/problems before going to Hal and Iain.

Also, as much as ENT is awesome, we can't just have one department. If members of the others departments have not done anything in over a month, get rid of them. Having no one is better than having an illusion that someone might actually start working on them.

I would love to see Guilds make a comeback.

Promotions need to be revisited. It is way too hard and long of a time to get from CL2 to say CL8.

Monthly awards should be brought back. But this time, each recipient should be given something fun for the week after winning. Like custom rank or avatar if lower than CL7.

Not too long and there will be The Old Republic, hopefully the most awesome MMORPG ever

I dunno ive seen some promoted to cl8 with less then 3 months time at cl7 . I dont think its too long, i just think a lot of people would like to get past cl4 without contributing to otf, and i think that needs to be addressed. Maybe having a cl 4.5 rank exclusive. mleh. or chainging the cl5 rank. but then we'd have people hovering at cl5 for ages and then moaning then want cl6 .. mleh. You get as much as you give is how it should be. I think the current structure effectivly does that.

Personally i think they do need help, however i think otf is under ""roman"" rules at the moment, i times of great suffering etc, they appoint one leader to make all the decisions instead of a council. Anyway personally if anyones going to be shoved on the executive panel, they ned to be someone active and with a lot of passion and drive for otf, and not someone who just knows the right people etc. mleh.

HAL/Iain, if you cehck this thread, I can re-send if you happened to miss it? It was during a lul and busy time for both of yourselves, so...

If you've seen a promotion like that, it was under the old system. With 2.0, you are only eligible to even be nominated in the control panel when you've completed your time.
You can not be promoted unless you've spent many months at the higher levels.

Similarly, not to 'ask' for a posting, but if you do need help with admin/pr side of everything, let me know

My understand why they kept that was to due to links and such. If someone comes to the website and only sees chatroom x or only tenforward, as a star wars fan they may be less inclined to enter, and thus having all 3 separate images, creates the illusion that there is 3 different ones.

I would love to see Guilds make a comeback.

The thing is, this place is pretty boring if you are a cl4 because you can't do very much (not what you could do in other chatrooms). There isn't much to encourage you to try and move up the ranks. You get to cl5 and then what? Unless your face fits (sorry to say, it has and always will be a case of face fits due to the promotion system) you will linger there forever.

If I recall, revamping the homepage has been on the books for quite a while, but nobody ever stepped up to plate as far as a new design went. Admittedly, this was months ago, so maybe someone new wants to give it a shot?

I personally believe that over the course of SEVEN YEARS I've done MORE then enough to build up for a CL5.

Yeah, we heard you the first time.

As for allowing unrestricted HTML and such use in the room, does anyone remember what went down the LAST time that happened? We have it for about an hour before someone started trying to post porn in the room. Luckily, he was bad at HTML and failed, but the point remains that it would have to be more heavily policed than just plain text. Saying that, however, I don't really see the harm in allowing text links, as long as the URL's still displayable. That, and disabling tinyurl.com and other redirects probably wouldn't be a terrible idea.

As for Hyperlinks and images in the chatroom, I only assume theres a reason of moderating the links, its assumed that someoene whos attained cl6 status has a lot of passion for the site and would be less inclined to post porn/hostile/spam related links/images in the chatroom.

I could easily get r&d to look at developing a code to add to the chat script to do this for cl4 (something like bb code =) E.G. it would have [b] and [i] and [img=LINK] and [link=LINK] ) and propose it to them, however im thinking it might end up like a dead horse, but who knows.