Please before you comment just read everything that i have to say. I would like feedback from everyone who reads it and give me your honest opinion. I look forward to catching the attention of the some of the mods on the site.
1.) Group Message tab - In games we only have the Public comments and Private Message tab which is good and all, but especially when it comes to working with others sorting through all those messages in PM can be annoying. Everyone here either uses Skype or Chatzy to group message and sometimes even both but what if we had a one stop shop. Think about how convenient it would be to have a third tab in your game for Group messages? it will eliminate some users from clicking in between websites. While i do understand Skype is a little more personal for a large variety of players. I think it would e a great option to have at our disposal.
2.) Gifting designs we don't use anymore would be another thing i would like to see come to life on this site. Just like in real life how we give our old clothes or stuff we do not wear or use anymore can we do that with our designs? Of course the receiver should have to pay a small fee to accept the item. I know lots of users have designs which they don't wear no one more or even think about. Let's pass them down to some users who would make great use of them.
3.) Loaning Ts - I think this will be a great option for players to loan other players Ts. I think this idea it kinda self explanatory but one thing i would add is that a cap should be made with how many Ts can a player loan out per day. I think an easy way to handle that is by color levels tbh.
4.) Big Brother USA format game - The closest thing we have to anything like that is Frookies tbh and i am grateful for that. I think some new games will bring some life back into the site. One thing i notice is that it takes forever for players to fill up one game nowadays hopefully with a new games it can bring more excitement. I'll explain the format below:
I think it should have 16 players who will pay 25ts to enter. My idea was for this our first month long game but with something to do with in each day to keep everyone busy and active. I believe this can also go hand and hand with a Fast game version as well of course with short Day change (12mins or so for each activity) and less comps.
Day 1: HOH Based off activity.
Day 2: Hacker Comp
Day 3: Nominations
Day 4: Haves and Have not Comp
Day 5: Veto Comp
Day 6: Eviction
HoH based off activity just like how it is in Frooks and Rookies i honestly would not even mind an HOH comp option instead but either or will work for the game.
The next day change Hacker comp. Just like in Rookies no one knows who has the Veto unless they reveal they have the Veto. That same format can work for the Hacker comp of course whoever wins the comp will be the Hacker. Who can change one nomination, and sit out one voter for that round.
Haves and Have Not comp - Just like how in Castings, Hunger, and Survivor Health is a BIG factor in game. The same thing would work for these games where the less health you have brings down your chances of winning HOH and the more Health you have increases your chances. The X amount of players with the lowest scores of that comp will be Have nots for that week and will loose 10% health while winners will gain 10% health.
This would make sense to bring back the Checks and Health checker again accept there would be no Need for Keys and Apples. Each round an HOH is crowned Algo should post who had the highest Checks and health that earned them the HOH. Of course no one can win HOH back to back.
The Nomination day is self explanatory but if people want to make that round more interesting and do a Key ceremony etc then thats up to them, but when noms are posted the Hacker can change one nomination or Leave it them the same.
Veto is the same like any other game accept in this game i think it would be cool if the HOH and the 2 nominees each get to pick a player to play in the Veto. Which they would have decided the day before during the Nomination round once all nominations were FINAL. That means only 6 players can play in the Veto. Once all 6 players completes the Veto comp then the winner can be crowned by Highest score.
Of course whoever wins can use the Veto within that Round before Eviction also the Hacker decides one player who can't Vote during eviction.
The Eviction round is simple houseguest will cast their vote to evict another house guest of course HOH and Nominees can not vote. Once the person is Evicted the game cycle resets with a new HOH.
The game would have a Jury of 9 and once FInal 8 reaches the first four jury members will get to play in a comp for Jury Battle Back. Which i think will add another level of excitement to the game of having a battle back competition grace this site.
Also Double eviction could be held at Final 10 and Final 6 where the HoH for that round will get to choose ALL 4 noms. Also once double eviction happens at Final 6 the game will be down to four players which is the same as Frookies where the last HoH and Veto will be the final 2.
Whoever wins the Last Veto comp will give out 3rd and 4th place!!!
Then we will have our Final 2 in which the Jury will vote on
Another cool thing to do before the final vote is Have the Jury come back for 12 hours of the Final day to Ask jury questions for the two final players. After their 12 hours are up they can no longer post in the Public comments anymore. the next 12 hours they have is to vote for who they want to win the game.
I think the Payout system should be once you reach final 7 you'll get your Money back as a reward and low karma averages but the winner should get 1,000Ts and 500 Karma being that it is a long game.
#1 would be nice, but it would have the same tendency for errors as the private message has now. I am referring to when you send a message to the wrong person. The idea of the games are social interaction. Group messages sort of kills the conversation in games. Skype does the same thing, but in a different way.
#2 defeats the purpose of shops. The point is to earn the T’s through playing games to get designs. Tengaged earns the money to operate by people buying T’s to use to join more games or buy designs. The shops would not be able to compete as they do now. New designs would rare.
#3 Loaning T’s - See above and think about people like me who can afford to buy T’s. I could just gift my friends T’s and they would have more power than people who didn’t have friends who could gift them. People beg people for designs all the time. You can imagine how people would be harassing other players for T’s.
#4 I am all for new games. As long as they can be added without getting rid of the current games.
I just wanted you to know my thoughts and that I did read your entire blog.
#2: Rather than gifting, there might be a "thrift shop" model that could work. It wouldn't be a free for all of people offloading their designs, but rather a specific set of criteria and rules. For example, only users with more than 100 designs can open a thrift shop, and only 1 such shop gets in per week. They could sell up to 30 designs from their own collection, with a set minimum price.
It's possible that thrifted designs could go for high prices, and wouldn't just be trash people are trying to get rid of. There might be designs that haven't been in shops for years. Instead of having 5 stock and time to think about it, it would only be 1 stock so if you want it, you have to buy it now.
Diva1 thanks for reading and i agree with your response you helped me look at a different perspective. With new games i just want new games to be added on top of our current set that we have.
i have tried to get #2 implemented since i was a noob lmao
a tg goodwill
it takes long to get designs and noobs hate it lol
andd ikr people have multiples for goodness sake
i'd love to have leftovers from someones closet js :P https://tengaged.com/blog/Minniemax/7995019/my-great-new-tg-idea-part-ii
#2 should have been implemented years ago but that is what makes people buy t$ because they want designs so I doubt it will ever change.
I have always wanted to tweak frookies a bit. I agree with many of the things you brought up as unique changes but in frookies itself I would love to see F4 played out like BBUS and there needs to be a day one veto. Day One HOH is the most powerful role in frooks and it is literally given out randomly lmao
I think tengaged needs to have a big revamp of the site because it's not very intuitive for new players, once it has done that then it needs to do some marketing and create new games. Doing that will make this place exciting again and welcome new players.
(maybe an app could be cool, which would reduce the amount of inactive people here)
I read your whole blog, and I think that these ideas would have been great years ago. However, I think that its current state is not sustainable. The person in charge of the website doesn't care about it, and he hasn't for a very long time. admin was a step in the right direction, but in reality having an admin was the bare minimum tengaged needed to keep going any longer. Tengaged grew more than it was expected to, yet as far as I'm aware Carlos is the only person getting paid for the site. I can't imagine it brings in much money because it's still a fairly low volume site, so he's stuck having people work for free to keep it up and running smoothly. I haven't been very active for awhile, so things might be different from how I perceive them.
Essentially my point is that while these are nice ideas, they are more wants than needs for tengaged.
