Attention: All members please read! =3

[Administrator]

[ & ] Yeah, I'm experimenting with a new posting style because I like those little 'and' symbols xD If it annoys anyone tell me.

[ & ] As you all know, Lanorae has had a bit of a mini-hiatus, but we're back now =3 However, because of this hiatus, a few little opinion questions I want to hear from all my lovely members have come up. Please, this is all opinion based, and will be used essentially as a majority rules thing.

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[ & ] First, the side bar. Now, I have been thinking about this for a little bit and I think we may be able to do just as well with a header table seeing I'm removing all the header tables on the individual threads and such.

[ & ] Now, obviously all the information in the side tables are still going to be there, it's just gonna be combined a bit into a steady table, and then affiliates will go below all the boards.

[ & ] The pros for this? The boards will be able to be more compacted a bit and will not take up most of the screen so the background may actually be visible xD Seeing there's less coding involved in regular header tables, loading time may also be more efficient. Also, seeing more and more people are going to side tables, we'll be a bit more unique with a header table xD

[ & ] The cons? Well, I know tons of people love side tables xD I love them too but I noticed the site tends to lag a bit.

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[ & ] Second, I will possibly be making a new skin. Now, I want to know what sort of idea you people want. Obviously the Abyssal Lugia skin will still be available, but just to give it more variety. If you have any suggestions on this please tell me a basic theme and possibly a colour scheme.

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[ & ] Third, plots. Everyone loves plots, and seeing our first official one may be starting soon I want to know what it is you guys want to do with this. Obviously, the basic storyline is already established right here *knocks on head*, but what do you guys want to do with it? Do you guys want what is essentially just a "read-along" plot with not much member participation, or do you guys want lots of member participation that may influence the outcome? Thoughts on this please!

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[ & ] Fourth, well, this is more of an announcement than anything else xD I will be doing few modifications to the little staff box there and also how the announcement scroll box will work. You guys will see what's going on there shortly.

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[ & ] ALSO. If I missed anyone's birthday please please please send me a pm or something and we will just have a huge birthday thread to make up for it and give everyone the gifts I missed! I apologize heavily for that ;-;

[ & ] And if there is anything else anyone wants to bring to my attention do it now. I'm not saying I won't pay any attention later, but this is really the prime time to do it because I'm on revamping mode. So if anyone has suggestions, concerns, whatever, either post them here or shoot me a pm! =3

[ & ] In addition, if anyone's noticed the little descriptions about the Pokemon that are found in the routes and someone wants to help, feel free to send me little blurbs for the Pokemon that need them through pm xD

[ & ] Thank you this has been Ayra!
Over and out!

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[Affectionate Zombie]

Whoo, hooray for the end of Lanorae's hiatus~! <3

Lesse here... The sidebar/header table thing. Personally, I think it would be nice to see a header table again, eheh... sidebars have become such a fad that you don't see header tables much anymore. And it would definitely make things more symmetrical, which I like. So I'm voting yes to the header table.

As for the new layout (awesome), maybe some sort of green and yellow scheme? It would be bright and cheery and energizing~! The theme could be summer! :U! Seasonal layouts are fun.

And yesplz to a hands-on, members-involved plot. Simply reading along with a plot isn't nearly as much fun as participating in its development, in my opinion.

Finally, suggestion! How about allowing members to submit their own fakemon, or even just suggest ideas for them? Like, there could be a simple thread in which members could brainstorm fakemon ideas, or post rough sketches (and/or finished drawings) of fakemon. Perhaps it would make things easier for you, Ayra, so you're not thinking up all of these things on your own; we could help out with movesets and all of that, and you could even hold auditions to try and get some spriting help.

Just my two cents, eheheh. c:

[Quill]

Ditto.

To pretty much all of that message, in fact. I was considering posting earlier (but was worried I wasn't supposed to, and I know ya'll hate me anyway, so, eh).

I definitely like the idea of interactive plots: As AZ said, reading along just isn't as much fun. (Oh, and I love header tables. Yay for symmetry.)

So, not that that message was at all helpful, but, there you are.

[Administrator]

*just noticed she has to make a remove announcement button* Lol, oops xD Anyways.

Alrighty, so that's two yeses and a maybe on the header tables [Rizu was talking to me through msn about it xD]. I do agree, symmetrical is win, and I've been recently OCD about that so, woo!

Green and yellow is an interesting colour scheme. I shall have to maybe toy with that... I know a 'chu skin was also mentioned, so it may be possible to combine those two. May have to do some drawing but yeah.

And that's a three-for-three for hands on plots! xD

As for members suggesting Pokemon; most of the Pokémon are actually already planned out. The actual Lanorae Dex has been in progress for an extremely long time, I'd say approximately six years at this point, so it's not exactly the ideas that are what's holding me back or anything xD I have at the very least 100+ fakemon already planned out, it's just that scratch spriting on my part takes time ;-; Lots and lots of time. And while I do take some short cuts for some of them there's still a lot of scratch spriting involved, so Dx

Unless I can find some one that's willing to scratch sprite, and can do so in at least somewhat matching the style that's currently going, I sorta backed myself into a corner on that one ^^; I seem to do that often.

Though moveset help is a definite yesplz! I know for Theetah a friend of mine *cough*Jake*cough* sent me a moveset, I just need to put it in, but I'd feel horrible if I kept throwing every single moveset at him, so if people want to help with movesets yesyesyesyes! xD

Thanks for the input, Zom and Quill~ =3 And no, we don't hate you, don't worry <3

[Affectionate Zombie]

Ohh, I see. :0 Well then, nevermind on the members suggesting Pokemon thing, haha. I do think you might want to give the spriting audition thing a shot, though. You may be able to find someone to lighten your load a little, and if not, then at least you tried, yes? :U!

But I'd be more than happy to help out with movesets, and I'm sure I'm not the only one. C: Maybe making a thread for that, with pictures and some info on upcoming Lanorae Pokemon, would be a good idea. That way everyone as a group can work on movesets together. GROUP EFFORT YEEHAH

[Quill]

-pokes above message-

Group-effort movesets sound like a good idea.
_{Also, it was my birthday yesterday. And I'm fairly certain Max's was the day before that. /greedy}

[hydra]

<sup>Okay, in my opinion, I absolutely love sidebars, so that idea would be fine with me. This is because I don't like seeing huge empty spaces on the sides of boards, so making side bars fills the space up. Also, I'm just used to seeing side bars all the time, so why not just put it?

For the skins, you could make a skin for the four seasons of the year. This would be for winter, and then make bright color scheme for the summer. Then you can have a green type of color scheme for spring, and then a red and orange color scheme for fall. It's just an idea that went through my mind, so you don't have to use it.

And finally, the plots, I think it’s a great idea to have member-involved plots. This way, all of us can have some fun, and none of us will get lazy with posting. Other than that, I think that's all I have to say for now.</sup>

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