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Originally Posted by TiberiusAD
UserGroups
Usergroups are already built into the forum, not further coding would be needed to make them work. Thank you phpbb.
A UserGroup is defined as a set of members with special permissions. That can range from being able to mod a single area of the forum, to access to restricted forums, and allowing new members into a usergroup.
At VC, usergroups could be created by anyone with enought starting members to warrent them. The group would be given thier own private area to post about group tactics ect.
Their purpose at VC was to engage in battles, wars, ect. for respect and prosperity. However usergroups could be used for anything. It was once described to me as a tiny clan, with no gaming invloved.
It is a very cool way to add some activity to the site, and can be managed with limited support needed.
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That was kind of what the new system was like, but the old system was a lot better (I think). The old system was mainly the usergroups competing by making things for the shop and using the money from those things for influence and gaining more money. While the new system (as I intended it) was essentially mini-clan wars competing for members, it didn't work quite like that though.
The main problem is that you'd get a few very dedicated members (like yourself and wilko) that actually did want to play along and worked to make their groups better, and then you'd get people joining those group that didn't really want to play along, but just wanted to be apart of the group for status on the forums.
The another problem is one group would become too big or too popular or too influential and the other groups couldn't really compete at all.
But it would be interesting to see how this would work on a more "mature" forum.