tomsmith1989 Posted May 8, 2009 Share Posted May 8, 2009 We should have a 'Lonely Hearts' column Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lower Leagues Rule Posted May 8, 2009 Share Posted May 8, 2009 EDIT: Just had a brainwave that perhaps this idea and the 'CSE User of the Month' award together could be a good combination. So we talk about what the User has done well that month, and then talk about their history etc. Kind of like a "Iacovone This is your Life" type article...hmmm that could be fun and I have a few choice quotes for you haha. Disclaimer: by no means does using Iacovone's name mean I want to see an article about him. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulHartman71 Posted May 8, 2009 Author Share Posted May 8, 2009 BrainWave!!!An "Agony Aunt/Uncle" section where users write in and ask for help solving their game related problems. You have 2 or 3 really experienced players pick and answer them. Ok, its more of a Help and Guidance section but you get the idea... yes, that's actually a very good, original idea that could work. Would obviously depend on the response it gets from the 'readers', but would work if we got a decent interest in it. We should have a 'Lonely Hearts' column think that would work well on either the humor page, or a seperate page for lonely hearts/general 'banter/non serious' adds could be placed on Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lower Leagues Rule Posted May 8, 2009 Share Posted May 8, 2009 Potential name: The Essential CSE My Favourite right now, but how about The CSEssential (pronounced Sea-sential) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomsmith1989 Posted May 8, 2009 Share Posted May 8, 2009 To add to that it might be an idea to hear from someone who has completed one of the challenges to talk us through it, and go through there strategies, and how they tackled the challenge. I suppose that could tie in with the save game idea. Another thought is to have monthly guides for things such as how to layout a sign-up (opening posts, or the actual updates) or how to go about setting up your own challenge, sign-up or experiment. Sort of a mini guide per month, which could be then put together over time to produce quite a substantial guide to all things CSE. To add to my own quote, the thing about building a guide, I was thinking in terms of like a 'collectible'. So one month would just soley be a brief guide on how to produce an interesting idea, and then next month would contain a brief guide about setting up test runs, and so on. I hope that makes sense. It does to me Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulHartman71 Posted May 8, 2009 Author Share Posted May 8, 2009 fwiw, if anyone reading this has added ideas, put themselves forward for anything then it's been edited into the OP. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dafuge Posted May 8, 2009 Share Posted May 8, 2009 Agony Aunt (Uncle Daf maybe As long as it doesn't end up as a 'get daf to do my maths homework' feature Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest roberto922 Posted May 8, 2009 Share Posted May 8, 2009 I'd like to put my name forward for the introduction if you don't mind me doing it, quite enjoyed writing it just now doing the draft for my cover idea Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdzH Posted May 8, 2009 Share Posted May 8, 2009 As for the name, how about something like Debut CSEason (pronounced Season) or some other clever word play like that? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest roberto922 Posted May 8, 2009 Share Posted May 8, 2009 I think in a bit we should put a vote up on this thread with the 10 best magazine names Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
blowcrapup Posted May 8, 2009 Share Posted May 8, 2009 You could have a section for people to post amusing mistakes they've made. For the humor section obviously. You could all it Blowcrapup's Blunders Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdzH Posted May 8, 2009 Share Posted May 8, 2009 I think in a bit we should put a vote up on this thread with the 10 best magazine names I second this motion Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lower Leagues Rule Posted May 8, 2009 Share Posted May 8, 2009 You could have a section for people to post amusing mistakes they've made. For the humor section obviously. You could all it Blowcrapup's Blunders I love it Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blanco Posted May 8, 2009 Share Posted May 8, 2009 Can I do an idiot's guide to small to big club challenges? (I'm certainly qualified) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulHartman71 Posted May 8, 2009 Author Share Posted May 8, 2009 In response to the name of the magazine. I think what I'll probably do nearer the time is get everyone to PM or email me their favorite from the 'big list', and then take the 5/6 most popular and then get a proper vote in. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdzH Posted May 8, 2009 Share Posted May 8, 2009 Hmm, as we're brainstorming, how about having a section for reviews of Challanges/Experiments/Sign-Ups and/or an update section where someone who's running a long term experiment can give brief updates on how things are progressing. Justification being not everyone has the time to really trawl/investigate everything thats going on and this publication should be reflection of whats on offer, evne if its in bitesize pieces. thoughts? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest roberto922 Posted May 8, 2009 Share Posted May 8, 2009 Could I suggest that you make everything on Word and then convert it to PDF? I've tried converting the cover from Publisher to Word but it looks a mess whereas it looks ok on PDF, anyway heres the link to the first draft of my version of the cover: http://files.filefront.com/Possible+CSE+Magazine+Cov2pdf/;13728830;/fileinfo.html Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
blowcrapup Posted May 8, 2009 Share Posted May 8, 2009 Could I suggest that you make everything on Word and then convert it to PDF? I've tried converting the cover from Publisher to Word but it looks a mess whereas it looks ok on PDF, anyway heres the link to the first draft of my version of the cover:http://files.filefront.com/Possible+CSE+Magazine+Cov2pdf/;13728830;/fileinfo.html Looking good. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest roberto922 Posted May 8, 2009 Share Posted May 8, 2009 Any feedback? What looks good, what looks bad and what I could add or take away? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulHartman71 Posted May 8, 2009 Author Share Posted May 8, 2009 it looks good, does seems it a bit empty though. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest roberto922 Posted May 8, 2009 Share Posted May 8, 2009 You mean with all the gaps between each bit? I'm working on that atm Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdzH Posted May 8, 2009 Share Posted May 8, 2009 I like it. not to busy. Always danger of people of over flooding the front page. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest roberto922 Posted May 8, 2009 Share Posted May 8, 2009 last of the night, just added some text to fill out and make it look a bit more like it would for a real issue, also we have a warning against selling it coz we're just so (aka I needed to fill up the space, something else will be there for the proper issue Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulHartman71 Posted May 8, 2009 Author Share Posted May 8, 2009 okay There's about 2 months until schedule for the first release, so obviously if anyone else wants to do a design to they are more than welcome to, seems a bit unfair assigning the role to just one person within 24 hours. Think the design like most things, will be down to a majority of 'staff' vote decision. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
PluckaDuck Posted May 9, 2009 Share Posted May 9, 2009 I quite like the name the CSE monthly and love the idea about having a CSE USer: This is your life! type thing. USer of the month is a pretty good idea as well and having birthdays would be a very nice addition! I'm still more than happy to do my monthly article of some sort and would also be willing to do a culture article on the wonderful nation of Australia at some point! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whoopy D Posted May 9, 2009 Share Posted May 9, 2009 Nice original idea and some good suggestions flying around as well Haven't got anything to add or any suggestions myself just yet but I might think of something later. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
weeeman27bob Posted May 9, 2009 Share Posted May 9, 2009 This flew off with out me last night! Some very good ideas though Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
canvey!! Posted May 9, 2009 Share Posted May 9, 2009 I can proof-read . Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
weeeman27bob Posted May 9, 2009 Share Posted May 9, 2009 Personally on the "things we should talk about" front I reckon we should cover CSE (obviously) and some general FM stuff. Having thought about it for a while, I don't think we should cover real football too much ( unless it links to FM in some way) as it will then turn into a football magazine. Thoughts? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulHartman71 Posted May 9, 2009 Author Share Posted May 9, 2009 I think it's best to find the best mix. Whilst obviously the focus is CSE and general FM stuff, I don't think we should totally ignore real life issues/football itself, however I understand what you mean and don't think we should have too much about things that aren't to do with the game. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
weeeman27bob Posted May 9, 2009 Share Posted May 9, 2009 Yeah, I'm not saying we shouldn't cover real football at all, but we shouldn't devote lots of time to it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulHartman71 Posted May 9, 2009 Author Share Posted May 9, 2009 yeah, I think looking at the content ideas we've had so far we wouldn't be devoting that much time to it anyway, however I think that articles from 'overseas based' users about their league, and Country's relationship with Football could be quite interesting. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
weeeman27bob Posted May 9, 2009 Share Posted May 9, 2009 Yeah that would be good. Always like to hear about other countries' football Here's my (not very good, so don't include it) effort at a title. CSE: You See. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest roberto922 Posted May 9, 2009 Share Posted May 9, 2009 You and your puns weeeman Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
joetheref Posted May 9, 2009 Share Posted May 9, 2009 How about CSExtreme for the name Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DodgeeD Posted May 9, 2009 Share Posted May 9, 2009 Pinching off the above slightly but namewise, how about The CSE Xtra? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rancer890 Posted May 9, 2009 Share Posted May 9, 2009 CSE Planet, because the mag is covering football from around the world. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulHartman71 Posted May 9, 2009 Author Share Posted May 9, 2009 I've been semi prioritizing the bullet points on the list, and I think that the most important is the content in the magazine. Obviously who is going to be writing/producing the content is very important to. I think that it's more of a case of the 'writers' going away and producing an article they want to write about, rather than someone telling them to write about something specific and as long as we don't have very similar articles about the same thing, we should be fine. However I think that we could and should have 'special' magazines which are based on one thing specific. For example the first issue could be a special 'introduction' to the forum with everyone talking about their experiences on here, why they like CSE etc. Then there could be special 'Sign Ups', 'Challenges', 'Experiments' etc ones as well. Any feedback would be welcomed Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Almondo Posted May 9, 2009 Share Posted May 9, 2009 Paul the idea about special magazines is a really good one as we would also get to know the people we see a lot in here and with whim we post with. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
weeeman27bob Posted May 9, 2009 Share Posted May 9, 2009 I don't think we should spend too much time on making it an introduction one. I think your ideas are good, such as the experiences, but I don't think we want to dwell on it too much. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
minisav Posted May 9, 2009 Share Posted May 9, 2009 A lot of fantastic ideas been put forward so far As for articles, I'm one for being given something to do and adding my own slant on it. Although I'll be happy to give my views on the Scottish leagues. How about having a section detailling a legendary player on somebody's save? Super Kyle for example. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
super_lampard Posted May 9, 2009 Share Posted May 9, 2009 I think having specials might be a good idea but we don't want to produce too many of these as it would take away from the actual magazines. I think having an awards special, and maybe an introduction one would be good but like most real magazines it needs to mainly be a monthly issue. However i definitely think the experiences could be a regular column Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rancer890 Posted May 9, 2009 Share Posted May 9, 2009 A lot of fantastic ideas been put forward so far As for articles, I'm one for being given something to do and adding my own slant on it. Although I'll be happy to give my views on the Scottish leagues. How about having a section detailling a legendary player on somebody's save? Super Kyle for example. CSE Legends. Great idea. Liu Lijia and Zhu Jinhui last year, Javier this year. And don't forget Wallace and Roberts of course... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lower Leagues Rule Posted May 9, 2009 Share Posted May 9, 2009 Javier who?? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rancer890 Posted May 9, 2009 Share Posted May 9, 2009 Javier who?? My youths Javier - YP4 Have you been living under a rock Des? Javier is known around the world. Maybe we can incorporate Nep's Youth Player HOF in the mag as well. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lower Leagues Rule Posted May 9, 2009 Share Posted May 9, 2009 My youths Javier - YP4Have you been living under a rock Des? Javier is known around the world. Maybe we can incorporate Nep's Youth Player HOF in the mag as well. I think someone is talking themselves up again, but someone had to prompt you to explain further. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pnefc22 Posted May 9, 2009 Share Posted May 9, 2009 How about a Blast from the Past section where we review an older FM/CM game? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
minisav Posted May 9, 2009 Share Posted May 9, 2009 How about a Blast from the Past section where we review an older FM/CM game? Good idea. This could be added to the save games section as people can relive their old saves. I still have screenies from my San Marino attempt which included a draw against England with the original team, no regens Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulHartman71 Posted May 10, 2009 Author Share Posted May 10, 2009 Good idea. This could be added to the save games section as people can relive their old saves. I still have screenies from my San Marino attempt which included a draw against England with the original team, no regens that's actually a very good idea, I'd relish the task for a second season with the FM08 Champions League winning Monkey's side Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdzH Posted May 11, 2009 Share Posted May 11, 2009 How about a section about historic flops and legends. I.E. Those players who were predicted to be awsome in a version of the game and went on to achieve things in real life but also those who were predicted for greatness but never lived up to the hype. Can profile one of each per issue and invite readers to submit their recomendations. Could even invite a vote of some sort and mantain top 5 success and top 5 flop tables. For those of you who have seen my little experiment/sign-up it should be clear I highly rate audiance participation. If you can get the audiance to engage, you will be garanteed some sort of popularity and then success. Thoughts? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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