AHU Re-Activation, Ideas and Suggestions

So, I've noticed that AHU has been getting a lot of traffic from guests but none have been joining. I've decided that this needs to be changed, so I've begun a quest on trying to get AHU active again.

I've created a list of what I think would be beneficial to increase the enticement of the site;

• First of all we're going to have to step up on our own posting frequency so the board looks active
• Remove several of the boards that are not needed or used anymore. I.E. The Colossus, and several others
• Move the Halo CE, 2, & 3 discussion threads into sub-forums.
• Create an advertising campaign with rewards for members to advertise AHU. Rewards will need to be worked on. Possible ideas are points that work towards member upgrades such as; Member Titles, an Advanced Group (Different styled name, i.e. bolded), 'badges', and of MOTM
• Staff post something in the Announcements, as that's the first thing that visitors see when arriving to the site.
• Clean up the submissions thread, Rott has been waiting since June to get feedback on whether he's been approved or not.
• Plot additions on the site. I'm working on one atm, but we need a large and site wide one.

Suggestions are great and appreciated. I'll add them to the list if they're beneficial. Thanks for reading guys. :)

Jupes.

Boards to be removed or moved;

• All three of those in Other RP's (Remove)
• Jericho Colonial Militia (Remove)
• Threshold (Remove)
• Covenant Training Guild (Remove)
• High Charity (Remove)
• UNSC Boot Camp (Remove)
• UNSC Colossus (Remove)
• The two forums in the Question Category could probably be made into two subforums of a new forum, something like Questions that should be moved elsewhere to share a category.
• Change the Games Discussion category to just Discussion. Make CE, 2, 3 Subforums of 'Discuss the Games', and move RP discussion into the Discussion category.
• Fanfiction and Fan Art combined into one forum.
• A few more of the RP forums could probably be removed or made into subforums.

That all sounds good...

I just want my heretic approved so I can get started on this rp I planned a long time ago.

But, I think we should also try out tournaments?

I dont exactly know how many people have Live so far, so we could start out in Halo doing small tourneys, or in ODST Firefight with two, three, four, or even just single player tourneys to see how many points the teams or people can get up.

Im around and about for live stuff, im going to be working on redoing the boards quite soon, not immediately and not before thursday but before the weeks out.

i shall try to drag more of my friends into this site. i know a few that are into RPing and love halo. :D

yes, count me back for the third time.

I'm still here.

yippee!! XD

<3 you guys

um, thanks jupes, but i think we should just be friends >.<

Well, if you're sure...

i think i am :]

god i want this site active again, god knows i try to get stuff going, but Jupe is right. We need to step up our posting.

so POST EVEN IF ITS SHIT!!! just getting ideas, dialogue, or thoughts onto the board are what we need.

WE NEED MOAR!!!!!

i've convinced two friends to join, and Eternity may possibly join back again, if we go active again. Lets do this right, peoplez!! :D

MARS! I MISSED YOU!

Btw, thanks for approving my heretic. Now let's get down to the long postponed plan I had on this chick. Zenta 'Rorbash.

So this is her bio,

Zenta was a extremly agressive, cruel elite. Many people, including her father, believed she would be one hell of a sangheili warrior. But after Zenta witnessed the Prophet of Regret kill a Grunt for no reason after lashing out, in a private place, she ran away. Ran as fast as she could to a weapons bay. She stole a energy sword and a plasma rifle. At the age of 16 cycles, she became a heretic. She ran through the streets, enflaming random prophets and 'holy warriors' in plasma fire and energy blade blows. Zenta was soon captured, and put into a cell on High Charity. After making a quiet escape with a couple other soon-to-be heretics, she boarded a Phantom with her ragtag group of warriors, and escaped.
Soon enough, she crash-landed on a small, primitive, unknown planet. She contacted the Heretic commander, and offered to set up a small base on the planet. After the Heretic leader sent a couple hundred elites and grunts, Zenta set up a colony. She assigned many jobs, and created what seemed to be, a small haven for herself to rule. To this day, she controls her fortress world, aided by the Heretic Commander.


The planet has been nicknamed, 'High Haven,' in mockery of High Charity. The fortress is in a round oval shape, with brances out of it. The entire planet is sort of like Earth, exceptminus alot of people. The Covenant have 'cars,' towns, etc. The fortress is like a huge castle, Followed by several hangar spinouts. which lead down to some small Unggoy camps, and Elite villages. Unggoy are treated worse than in the Covenant, as long as they dont keep a place of respect, or live somewhere devoid of Elites. The planet is mostly methane and oxygen, with plants that refurbish methane and breatheable air for humans and any other races. Obviously the air reeks a bit, like if someone created cow manure as a perfume.
And the grunts are rebelling, which means they are a useful NPC force that ANYONE can control. But, if someone has taken control of a temporary character, you cannot remove that temp. character from their posession unless they give posession.

That's all I've got so far.

Seems like a good idea if you can make it enticing enough to get people to RP covenant. Make a post in the RP discussion thread about it, the more active threads the better.

Mars, could I ask you to post in the announcements forum please? Just say something about AHU being back on the roll and the like and encourage new members to join. As I said before it's the first forum on the board so it's going to be the one that's seen first, so it's a good thing to have an active thread in it.

I think our first priority is to minimise the amount of boards on the main page, but that's something only Thrawn can do. So as Snom wisely said, get posting peeps!

I still play Covenant. So if you still need someone to hold that role, I still have the largest assortment of Covenant characters here, with the capability of creating more.