All things considered, I have high hopes that Booty Grab will remain as
relevant as we can build it up to. I truly hope Sight Ninja continues to
bless us with his awesome timers. It helps out a lot. If the timers are
acting funny, though, we now have the ability to see the tanks in the
regular forums and the guild forums. Ruffle has improved things and
the developers continue to make further improvements. In the
meantime, there are those of us who have found alternative browsers
to play the game with, making the game-play even more exciting and
engaging. I feel it is possible to start bringing more active Gaians into
the Booty Grab community. One of the ways I believe we can bring
more folks in is to actually engage each other in the threads as we did
in the past. There are only a handful of us who still do this, and it is
greatly appreciated. I am guilty of engaging less than I should, and I
have a nice round of excuses as to why this is so. However, if you're
interested in building the Booty Grab community back up, please
consider actually quoting and engaging with your friends in the Gaia
Aquarium Forums. For example, if I Bump and Grab a glowing tank,
and I notice a fellow Booty Grabber is online, I should consider quoting
them if the tank's owner is a mutual friend. This encourages positive
feelings within the community and inspires others to want to join our
community. Please also consider there are people with social anxiety
who love to play with us and love our community, but they'd rather lurk
and absorb our positivity from the shadows. They are still valuable
members of our community, they are just sociably differently-abled.
I beseech you to attempt using only positive words and phrases with
all of those in the community, both old and new. Everybody is going
through their own unique set of circumstances and we should attempt
to either lend our sympathy or our silence in these times. Misfires in
communication can cause the end of some beautiful friendships and
acquaintances.
I have started this thread because I really want to hear the feedback
from our community. I love to share ideas to bring others into our
community or to make our community better in any way we can. So,
please vote in the poll if you've made it to this thread and please
share your individual ideas about what you would like to do to improve
the image of the Booty Grab community.
Here is what I am currently doing to help improve the openness and
acceptance of our community: I built and maintain a text thread in the
Gaia Aquarium Forums which keeps all of the active tanks I can find
in a simple format. I keep a copy of that thread in this guild as well.
In the Gaia Aquarium thread, and in this guild, I offer free assistance
with coding for the Bump threads, Tanks, and Sight Ninja's Timer for
the individual tank owners. I actively hunt for new tanks to add to the
threads. I reach out to tank owners to let them know we are waiting
for them in our community. I also make suggestions to promote the
visibility of their tanks. I keep this guild public. Keeping this guild
public allows people to feel as if though we are open and accepting
to new users at whatever stage of involvement they care to be in. I
maintain activity in this guild and focus on settling my life and personal
circumstances into such a way as to be even more community
focused.
What I am interested in seeing in the future, though I may have limited
time and resources to be able to provide: An aquarium thread in the
Gaia Aquarium Forums being used as strictly a clean chatterbox for
our community so we can get to know each other better and we can
share insights into the community and we can let each other know
when a friend's tank is glowing. I suppose I just want other Gaians to
see how we shine so they wonder what we're all about and they want
to be a part of our happiness and fun.
Here is the question pertaining to the poll in this thread: I have
decided to fill the tanks I maintain in such a way as to focus on the
personality or behaviors of the characters I created for this guild.
For example, Evil Sith Lunchlady will have Lightning Bugs and
Shockroaches because, well, she's a great cook, but her cafeteria
does exist in an old abandoned factory, so there's only so much
effectiveness cleaning can maintain in her kitchen. I also plan on
keeping her available for temporary events, so she's special. The
tanks I am maintaining as a babysitter for those who have taken an
extended leave of absence will have only Dolphins in them from the
time their fish need replaced until the end of their stay under my care.
So, I have an abundance of fish who are high-trigger glowers and I
would like to do something about them. This is what I have extra of:
Prince Enki
= 99Grunny Sub
= 169Bladed Vase
= 293Katsumi's Kokeshi Doll
= 440Lawnshark
= 199Memphis
= 51Kokeshi Collectable
= 439Feathered Coatl
= 322Zoey
= 15Watermeat
= 21Buzz Kill
= 26Lila
= 87Dolphin
= 112Irrawaddy Dolphin
= 25Momo the Monkey
= 58Sea Angel
= 32Purse
= 98Cuckoo
= 33Predator Prairie Pup
= 54Barnacle Fluff
= 38Gilroy
= 42Box Fish
= 12Buzz Saw
= 70Piranha
= 21Kokeshi
= 18Duneslam
= 39I want to do something with these extra fish besides selling them in
the marketplace.
My options are:
I take an existing game, Target Practice, which gives away Random
Item Generators at this time, and give away the fish as prizes instead.
After all, Jedi-Bay already gives away Random Item Generators so the
game is redundant at this time.
I send the fish to Dumpster Dive.
I start a thread in Gaia Gaming called Booty Grab Grab Bag and I give
the fish to perfect strangers in the hopes that they start their own tanks.
I give away the fish to those folks already in this guild and continue to
do that so their payout is higher because they have free fish instead
of spending their platinum on refilling their tanks.
