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Ask Lightvayne


In light of the new PR name rebranding, I would like to try something a little different. As the name suggests, I would like answer any questions that you may have, as long as it is somewhat site related. I don't mind the personal question here and there, but I would like to keep this professional, meaning don't get out of line with the questions.

Along with this, I would also like to take this opportunity to answer some of the question you guys have been asking in the Feedback Page located at the bottom of the site. It's kind of hard to respond to an anonymous post when you don't know who its from. This way I can answer some of those burning questions everyone wants to know about, but never had a way to get an answer back.

So go ahead and ask away. ^_^
Layout by LDA during C3.
how are your kids?
Are you now the de facto head of the site now that SNN is gone?

Is this meant to partially or fully replace the Staff Feedback?

Also, hows life
in your van down by the river
?


Magst du bratwurst?
What's your most anticipated coming SMWCentral event?

What do you think SMWCentral can do to become more inviting for the people whose first experience with level design will be Mario Maker?
What plans do you have for increasing transparency between staff and the rest of the userbase?

What happens when you get banned?
I support:


Latest versions of SMW: The New Adventures

Stable: v 2.1
Beta: v. 2.2



How's your hack?

Why did you randomly stop PMR?

Is Lightvane (the character of your hack) Son of Knuckles and Rouge? I'm just asking...
About how mind-numbingly terrible are the threads in the geological repository?
New layout by RanAS!
1- Lightvayne (the main character of your hack) has any relation with Knuckles The Echidna in story?

2-
I'm too lazy to edit this.


What's going to happen to the VLDC hack series?

I heard from multiple sources, that it is very well recieved (from the users of this site and many people, who aren't users) and with a particular staff member leaving, we currently have no project leader.

So I want to know, if it is planed to continue the collab style of the VLDC.
My Youtube channel

Currently working on:
Project C

Finished project:
(kind of a follow-up of the above post) assuming SMWCP2 gets finished in the near future, how probable is a SMWCP3? or will it be spiritually succeeded by another chocolate project? or is it up to someone else to continue it?
Do you have any plans about your hack for the next C3?
What's 0 divided by 0?
Are we gonna have any multi-community contests in the near future? I've at least seen a VLDC8 thread in the Talkhaus, but it didn't seem like the event gathered too much attention from anybody who isn't from here anyway. So, any plans on stuff like that?

And most importantly, when is the banner gonna be made clickable?
It's easily the best thing I've done
So why the empty numb?
Have you stabbed Kieran over the cards yet?
Later.

Originally posted by Torchkas
how are your kids?
They are doing great. We just got back from the Great America theme park in Illinois and they are all passed out from exhaustion

Originally posted by Cascade
Are you now the de facto head of the site now that SNN is gone?
I kinda like to think we all have some part in running the site, though I will say I'm probably the most active admin ...
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Is this meant to partially or fully replace the Staff Feedback?
Not at all. Think of it more as an enhancement. I still would like people to use the page for feedback, suggestions or other various things they would like to stay anonymous for.
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Also, hows life
in your van down by the river
?
For the record, I do not live in a van, anywhere near a river for that matter. I do work in one though and my time at work is oddly enough the most active I am around here

Originally posted by Mr. GreenThunder
Magst du bratwurst?
Sorry I don't speak Chinese.

Originally posted by dax
What's your most anticipated coming SMWCentral event?
The upcoming winter C3. There have been a lot of great ideas floating around and I'm really hoping the big surprise is ready by then.
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What do you think SMWCentral can do to become more inviting for the people whose first experience with level design will be Mario Maker?
I know a few people suggested opening up a new forum just for Mario Maker when the time comes, where basically people would be able to show off some of their level design. As far as us getting more users because of the game itself and people wanting more? Always a possibility. LM itself is a pretty good tool and pretty easy to learn the basic stuff. And for other things, that what we have the documents and tutorial sections for. For the rest, there is always usually a few people floating around ready to answer questions new people have. Mario Maker is kinda the wildcard in this whole thing, we don't exactly know how or if it will even affect the site, but be assured, we will be ready for it and make any changes necessary.

Originally posted by Derpy Backslide
What plans do you have for increasing transparency between staff and the rest of the userbase?
It's kinda the whole point of the new PR group we just put together in hopes that we can bridge the gap the user base feels that is in between us. There are a few more things we plan on rolling out with, but those will be announced at a later date.

Originally posted by thesegafan98
What happens when you get banned?

For the most part, it depends on the severity of the ban. It can do anything from stop you from submitting or posting in a specific thread or section all the way up to not allowing you to even view the site. In my opinion, its best to not do anything stupid enough that would get you banned in the first place ;)

Originally posted by Kaisaan Siddiqui
How's your hack?
Why did you randomly stop PMR?
Is Lightvane (the character of your hack) Son of Knuckles and Rouge? I'm just asking...


The hack has been moving along slowly. Work has become quite busy of the past month or so so I haven't had time to touch it, or PMR for that matter.
And no, my character has no relation to Knuckles. That back-story is for a later time...

Originally posted by Sokobansolver
What do you think a Kaizo Sonic game would be like?

Precisely 14 times more frustrating than a standard Kaizo Mario hack. I don't even think anyone in the sonic hacking community has ever given something like that a though...and please don't tell them about the idea either #smw{._.}

Originally posted by MilleniumLuigi
About how mind-numbingly terrible are the threads in the geological repository?
Its like trying to smell the color 9.

Originally posted by juniorsword448
1- Lightvayne (the main character of your hack) has any relation with Knuckles The Echidna in story?
Answered Above.

Originally posted by NGB
What's going to happen to the VLDC hack series?
I heard from multiple sources, that it is very well recieved (from the users of this site and many people, who aren't users) and with a particular staff member leaving, we currently have no project leader.
So I want to know, if it is planed to continue the collab style of the VLDC.

Yes, SNN leaving was a sad day for all of us, but I assure you the VLDC will still be a yearly thing. We already have a someone that has stepped up to lead the project for the next one coming up. While I don't exactly know what thew plans are, I think he will do a great job in handling it.

Originally posted by Ladida
(kind of a follow-up of the above post) assuming SMWCP2 gets finished in the near future, how probable is a SMWCP3? or will it be spiritually succeeded by another chocolate project? or is it up to someone else to continue it?
When I was leading the SMWCP2 project, I kinda always thought that a SMWC3 would be nice, but only if it was kept way more simple that this version turned out to be. It was so resource heavy, everyone had all these huge plans, and when it all came together, other bit and pieces started falling apart because of it. I will say, I do kinda have a plan for a "spinoff" for SMWCP2, but I'm not releasing any of those details until official beta testing starts. ;)


Originally posted by Berkay
Do you have any plans about your hack for the next C3?

Yeah. Actually get some more stuff done on it. :V I would at the very least like to get a demo out, but only time will tell.

Originally posted by Nin
What's 0 divided by 0?
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Originally posted by Koopster
Are we gonna have any multi-community contests in the near future? I've at least seen a VLDC8 thread in the Talkhaus, but it didn't seem like the event gathered too much attention from anybody who isn't from here anyway. So, any plans on stuff like that?
It already kinda being discussed amongst the PR department. I threw an idea their way the other day. I'll see where they go with it from there.

Originally posted by Koopster
And most importantly, when is the banner gonna be made clickable?
Yeah... site coding it not really my department. Best to ask Kieran about that one.

Originally posted by Prizm
Have you stabbed Kieran over the cards yet?

For reference, he is talking about the PMR cards I coded. Kieran broke something with them when he did a site upgrade a month or so back. Now I can't have other members hosting games with them anymore T_T. Kieran did alert me of a fix for it, but once again, time is needed. :V


Bonus Feeback:
Here is a anonymous question we got on our feeback page;
Originally posted by N/A
Bring back Caffie Radio! Some people may not like it, but SMW Central is not SMW Central without it!
The new PR team will be helping handling this issue. I know xtreme is the head on this department so I'll have to talk to him and see what up

Good questions for far, and I encourage you to keep them coming. But as I said, lets try and keep the silliness to a minimum; looking at you Nin. #smw{¬_¬}
Layout by LDA during C3.
Are there any plans for sm64 contests / collabs in the future?
New layout by RanAS!
Originally posted by Lightvayne
Originally posted by N/A
Bring back Caffie Radio! Some people may not like it, but SMW Central is not SMW Central without it!
The new PR team will be helping handling this issue. I know xtreme is the head on this department so I'll have to talk to him and see what up

The radio is up as long as someone is broadcasting, which is only as long as someone has anything to broadcast, which is far less than always.

And the last time I saw the radio, it had zero listeners (except AlphaTech's dog), so I'm not sure how important it really is...
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