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I've been thinking over some stuff in preparation for making a big update and struck me that i haven't asked you guys!

Since we have this new shiny forum and that, that was our main goal, what next? There is still a lot of room for 'Growing the Community,' so what are your ideas?

I'll keep checking your comments on my HTC, so keep them coming and i'll post the update as soon as i've got a good idea of what you guys are thinking.

Get our own section on the main forum page with an Infinity YMDC, Infinity Discussions, Infinity Army Lists, etc

SilverMK2 wrote:Get our own section on the main forum page with an Infinity YMDC, Infinity Discussions, Infinity Army Lists, etc

Agreed

I think that for now we should focus on getting more people involved in infinity. Spread the word around (start blogs, talk on local forums, that kind of things). Also I believe that it's important to keep things interesting. Now you may ask how are we gonna do that.

Well first of all Painting competition was a great idea and I see it's going really well (in which, unfortunately, I'm unable to participate due to Real Life™ things that are happening to me right now. But soooon... ). Maybe it would be good idea to that from time to time (every 3 or 4 months) with prizes and everything. I'm sure that can be arranged.

Also on my local forum there is one thing called Painting league. Whats the point of Painting league? Well it starts with the idea that average gamer is kinda lazy concerning painting. It's purpose is to motivate people to paint. This is how it works. You have two weeks to paint one miniature (only one, if you can paint more that great but one is enough). Quality of paint job is not really important, it's important to just paint. After every round you submit photo of your mini and all other participants of the league will grade it. There is one moderator who puts all grades in the table and post it on forum. If you fail to submit your photo on time you are assigned honorary title of Chicken for that round. It works really well and I saw a lot of people dramatically increase their painting productivity. If you're interested we can go in more details about this later.

Second thing I think would be great is some sort of terrain building competition. We all know that Infinity needs a lot of terrain so why not organize a competition. It could be thematic ( build a Haqq building or PanO military hangar or Paradiso research station, something like that). Or just build anything you like/need for your table. Maybe we can even arrange some prizes just to motivate people...

Also I see that you guys in England are trying to organize a meet up. I didn't follow the whole thread but that is also an excellent idea. Just a little note, small number of people who show up is totally ok. Start small and than develop further. Bring a friend along, show him the game, beat him with beautiful rule book.

Another thing that we need is more bat-reps. As much as I can conclude, doing comic book style bat-rep really works good for Infinity. I will probably have my new camera (since the old one met it's inevitable, grim end ) soon so I will try to make some. But any kind of bat-rep would be good.

And what I would personally like to see more on the forum is more fluff threads. Explore the background, discuss the details, make parallels with real world technology/events, write your own stories (we already have that but just to mention it).

So there you go. This is a couple of my ideas how to grow community. And thank you for reading this short essay.

Also on my local forum there is one thing called Painting league. Whats the point of Painting league? Well it starts with the idea that average gamer is kinda lazy concerning painting. It's purpose is to motivate people to paint. This is how it works. You have two weeks to paint one miniature (only one, if you can paint more that great but one is enough). Quality of paint job is not really important, it's important to just paint. After every round you submit photo of your mini and all other participants of the league will grade it. There is one moderator who puts all grades in the table and post it on forum. If you fail to submit your photo on time you are assigned honorary title of Chicken for that round. It works really well and I saw a lot of people dramatically increase their painting productivity. If you're interested we can go in more details about this later.

This. This so hard.

Infinity is one of those games where it isn't daunting to paint up an entire force. This is something that can be focused on like a razor. Even if you're painting up one or two guys a week, in two months you have a fully painted squad. That sounds great.

Great ideas Ender. l

The number one thing for me with Infinity is the fantastic figures. I'd like to see more shown in other parts of DD other than here. The contest is great and should be a yearly thing if not more. Build up the articles and army profiles with Infinity stuff is not bad either. I just wish they weren't buried with all the other things.

Yeah, I'm at the point where I could definitely do an Army Profile for my Haqqislam, but the problem is I keep... buying... models...

I have about 475+ of Haqqislam... and more on the way.

Gotta get painting.

When I do the Army Profile (eventually) I'm definitely enlisting your assistance CDK. You seemed to have an adventure out of it when you were doing your Yu-Jing.

Lol glad to help. The one thing about the articles is you can keep editing them Do it more as a WIP type thing.

I'm also going to try to keep coming up with posts on rules like I did with the Prone. Like how to use Sixth Sense, or what is Dogged?

Hey guys... We haven't done any introduction to each of the factions yet, haven't we?
I know fluff vids from Corvus Belli are there, but I feel it would be a good idea to sticky a thread where we've written down some lines about the fluff and general playstyle/units of each faction. Because if there's one thing I look for when I'm interested in a new game, that's a summary of each of the factions.
What do you think? Is that a good idea?

Just so you guys know. I'm reading all of this and absorbing it.

Keep it coming, it's very useful!

Just to second what Ender0 said:

We could a league of infinity painters or something, like what the tale of painters is over on warseer.

Every month you do a mini or two and post wip pics, and then the next month you post the finished product with a bit of info about what you did and why.

Although I think the idea of grading finished minis may put some of the less experienced painters off, myself included here. But we would all comment on all the finished minis and give some tips or pointers to each other.

just going to throw my 2 cents in.

as Ender0 mention terrain.

i know personally the only reason i am not playing right now is i dont have the right kind and enough. (40k stuff and not a lot)

a post on how to make terrain that is fast/easy and looks half way decent would be a god send for me.

that and just terrain in general, aka people work how they made it etc.

last thing.

FLOOD THE P&M BLOGS WITH INFINITY!!!

i have way too many minis and its mostly beacuse i saw something cool someone had done and wanted my own. just some thoughts


P.S. If anyone figure out how to make a good looking Haqq building please do share

I'm really glad you guys like my ideas. I see that you like Painting league idea so I will expand on that later today when I get back home. No time now, I have bunch of stuff to do today.

@perplexiti
Don't worry about quality of paint job. The grading system is organized in that way that it rewards finished, painted miniature not the quality of the paint job itself. I'll explain everything later.

Sweet as, the only issue I have is if it puts people off entering. I'm nowhere near the best painter around, but it's good to get constructive criticism that helps you improve.

And I'm keen as to join in, it'll give the incentive to get finished starting on my Haqq!

On the way home from work, I had a funny conversation with my friend on the phone.

After several minutes of catching up, I mentioned Infinity, which he totally forgot to check out. So he asked for the game URL.

After several more minutes of shocked reactions at the models, he asked where he could get the rules. I informed him they were free (again) and they have a free army builder on their website.

He's coming here on Sunday to check out the rulebooks and buy a starter pack at my FLGS.

Now to get my other wargaming buddy and brother to start.

Alright Ender0, let's chat about this painting thing.

Everyone is going to be coming off of the contest-high in a couple of weeks, so it would be a great time to start getting it set up and maintain the painting motivation.

Can you link us somewhere to show us how it works? Or give us a quick rundown?

Yes more info on that would be great. I've started collecting ideas together so i'll be making the update tomorrow.

If you have anything else you'd like to bring up before then, then get it up on this thread before tomorrow!

My P&M blog has my Haqqislam as well as my Tyranids. My last update tonight was my second finished Ghulam.

Yay! I haven't checked blogs for weeks, i'm going to have so much great stuff to check out!

I've got one of my old gaming buddies visiting on Sunday, along with his daughter. They've both expressed some vague interest in 40K, having seen my minis and my son's, but have understandably been put off a bit by what's clearly a huge investment in time and money to even buy-in to the game.

So, I'm going to have them play some 100-pt test games of Infinity. I've made 3-4 lists each from the 3 factions my son and I own between us (Yu Jing, Aleph, and Ariadna), all with quite different characters, and none of them with more than 1-2 specialised units (parachutists, hackers, minelayers, etc.). I'll get a table set up with terrain before they get here, too, and some of the PDF army references sheets printed out, just to maximise accessibility. I think my friend will love it but still be resistant to actually buying it, but I'm hoping his daughter will apply pressure to make him do so.

May I ask you guys how you came across this game and why you stuck with it? I want to know how to better reach out to the local gamers.

The problem here is that Infinity isn't really supported. We lack a local distributor, and this is off-putting for stores. The average guy won't find out about this game because you can't find it unless you're really looking for it, and the guys that actually learn about the game are often put off by either the lack of support or the seemingly complicated rules.

I got into it by randomly buying the rulebook.

It sounds silly, but I walk into Game Stores looking for cool RPG books and other interesting things... it just so happened that this brightly colored rulebook caught my eye, and I bought it immediately. The art is fun, the fluff is cool... the rules I didn't worry about.

Once I realized it was a miniature game, I then started to look at the Minis. The sculpts are amazing, and totally sucked me in. I ordered a couple, and got to painting.

Then I find out my FLGS started stocking them, and that a group was gathering to play.

I watched some of the online You-Tube tutorials, which were INCREDIBLY helpful with explaining the rules in a way that made sense, and once that was out of the way, the more obscure rules started dropping into place.

By that point, I was hooked.

I got in by randomly looking at posts on Dakka.

I first saw a News and rumors thread.
Wasn't interested.

Then a couple weeks later, I saw people asking for a dedicated Infinity board on Dakka.
So I went on the official site to see what it looked like.

And I was blown away =P
Beautiful minis with free rules and free army builder.
I spent the rest of my work week learning about the game =)
Hadn't even played it and already loved the game.

So I ordered a couple minis and the books =)
I played a demo game with my brother and 2 friends. And they all ordered some now =)
Now we play every sunday =)
(Still playing with proxies tho)

Hmm, not sure. I think I read about it here, and looked at some of the minis and decided they were too expensive.

Then a year ago there was a GW price rise and suddenly Corvus Belli minis looked reasonable by comparison. A few of the people at my local game club started looking round for other games, deciding GW had finally jumped the shark, and three or four of us bought some Infinity starter packs.

It figures.

I finally pop up on the front page, and it's with the mini I painted during a night of heavy drinking.

I love that model, but it makes me a little embarassed every time I see it.

Mainly due to having passed out on the couch with my arms tucked up like a T-Rex... but yeah, TMI and all.

Still... hey, front page Infinity!

Congrats, man. Perhaps you'll get the votes and views it deserves now.

Follow-up questions to the earlier one:

Do your stores host events for Infinity and dedicated gaming nights?

What would be good to have at an event/demo game in a store? I figure that rulebooks and starters would be the most obvious, but maybe it would be smart to include some Jotums and Dragoons just for the cool-factor? Would you guys have liked it if someone had already printed out the free rules and handed them out as well?

I'm just trying to collect some info on how such an event should be handled, should the opportunity ever arise (nothing concrete at the moment).

We tend to have an Infinity Day at Games n' Stuff once a month. It's not as much as I'd like to see, but the game is still kicking off, so it's definitely better than nothing.

We can still go in and play whenever.

Saw a thread about people complaining about cheesecake, so I went in to set them straight. Turns out they were complaining about 'cheesecake', provocative female miniatures. Saw the Al Hawwa sniper and immediately loved it.

Checked out the rest of the range and within a day I'd decided I wanted to play it based on the models alone.

What the hell is a cheesecake, other than a delicious dessert (which I'm guessing isn't the context it's meant in here? )

I didn't beleive is either. It actually is in the dictionary. Other than a delicious dessert, it can mean art/movies/pictures/etc showing females in a sexually provocative way.

So, a lot of Infinitys female models.

Also, my friend has made his choice - tomorrow, he's buying his first Aleph models.