SMAC Fiction in the Apolyton Directory?

[Alinestra Covelia]

re the Feedback idea, would it be better to have feedback links accessible from the actual stories themselves? It irks me when I'm reading a story and get an idea for something to say, then I have to trawl through threads near and far to find the comments thread.

[MarkG]

entries in the dir have a field for a "related thread"
as i mentioned above, this would be used for the feedback thread

[MarkG]

i think from the reader's point of view, it would be be best to first categorize based on the content (humour, drama, etc) and then on the length.

notes about whether or not only smac/x factions are used or if it's multi-authored can be put in the begining of it's description

[Kassiopeia]

Originally posted by MarkG
i think from the reader's point of view, it would be be best to first categorize based on the content (humour, drama, etc) and then on the length.

notes about whether or not only smac/x factions are used or if it's multi-authored can be put in the begining of it's description

Agreed... I suggest that once we begin the first step would be gathering up url's and titles of finished stories and then sorting them out and arranging who will summarize what. If we have a good list of the stories, then we can see how we would be able to classify them so that there's enough stuff to all categories.

From the too of my head, I'd say we'd have mostly "Humour", "Drama" (as in drama that is based on Alpha Centauri and the settings of the game), "Other" (which would have stuff that's not so loyal to SMAC/X, for instance BAC). Any others? I don't think there are, say, plays there. Wait a minute, an AC play would be interesting.

[Mellian]

Okay, this is my first post in apolyton in one or two months...just would like to give my input.

Do like Spacebattles.com does with its story debates, if they are good, then place them in the archive.... completed or not, multi-author or not.

For the multi-author ones, would be go idea to archive them...why? would be easier for people to find them easily and read up on the game...so they can decide wether to join in or continue as an lurker. would really be useful for those the good ones like Spartan: Chronicles to be archived.

I say Crossfire, Spartan Chronicles, Chiron Chronicles and Beyond Alpha Centauri (once the first thread is finish of course) be archived.

-Mellian

[Alinestra Covelia]

Quite a few readers have a professed "favorite" faction. I know I wrote my fiction with a notable factional skew. Perhaps in addition to just stating whether or not the story remains within the original 16 factions, we could also state whether or not the story has a skew towards any given factions, and those against which it skews.

For example, "Joe" would probably be listed as being strongly pro-Hive and anti-UNP/DataTech. This would give a reader an idea of whether or not they would enjoy the fiction. A couple of readers have told me that they didn't read the story because it was very long, and moreover they weren't sure whether the Hive is vilified or lauded, so they didn't want to invest the time to read it if there was a risk they wouldn't enjoy it.

[MarkG]

"Humour", "Drama", "Other" sound fine, along with a small but crucial "Official" one(any other similar but better title is welcome), containing the smac and smac-x stories, as well as the books excerpts

if there are no other suggestions on the subcategories, i'll make them tomorrow.

the data needed for each entry are
- category
- title
- url(s) of threads of the story
- author
- description (introduction/synopsis), noting on the factions used and how close it is to actual smac story
- thread number(from example this thread's number is 57757) of a related discussion

[Kassiopeia]

Ok. I hope no one minds if I submit entries for my own fics. After all, I am probably the one who best knows what they are about.

[MarkG]

yes, the best will be to contact the author and ask him to either do it himself or provide the intro

Kassiopeia, stay around for a few min, i'm adding the categories now

[MarkG]

and here we go!

http://apolyton.net/dir/index.php?cat=108&t=sub_pages

[Kassiopeia]

"Tales that don't fit anywhere", sounds a bit sad, like a bespectacled freckle-faced boy in school nobody wants to talk to.

[MarkG]

check again

[Kassiopeia]

Oh good god. I'll keep my mouth shut from now on.

[Kassiopeia]

Category: Drama

Title: The Homeworld

url: http://apolyton.net/forums/showthrea...threadid=22582

Author: Kassiopeia

Description:

A strange object lands on Chiron, leading to a chain of events that sparks off the University space program and eventually an interfactional enterprise, the starship ISS Homeworld. As launch is prepared, Provost Zakharov retires from office, leaving his faction to unruly hands.

Thread number of comment thread: 22583

[Kassiopeia]

*realisation*



The above, of course, is a mere template.

Link added.