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Did you start a VSA with big plans with hopes of lots of people joining and participating and all that?
Well the simple fact is VSAs are not as popular as they once were. And your VSA stands about a 90 percent shot at failing before it's first anniversary.
There is a reason for this in my view. If you think for even a moment you are going to get insulted by any of this. Just hit the back button because it aint pretty!
First and foremost in my view starts with basics. If you think you can even approach such as SimNASA or the old VUSSP with a site on freewebs or any of these other free web hosts you are in for a world of fail because not one has worked right. Want to know why? Because HTML tempates and editing with notepad went out years ago. (BTW speaking from personal experience. Running a VSA from a Wiki is FAIL as well.. Just FYI)
Second. Simulating prior real life space missions is boring ESPECIALLY if you have no means to actually track it online and end up with a "Space Blog" It has been done TIME AND TIME again! People watch NASA clips when they want to get their Gemini or Apollo fix... How about simulating somthing new?
Third.. The public needs to be involved. Nobody gives a flying hell that you are putting up a station if you ignore their thoughts about it. Their tips and their experiences.
Now I am not just going to walk away after throwing that bag of words. I have some suggestions that may or may not assist in your efforts to restore greatness to the VSA community.
Idea #1 Has anyone considered MySpace? First and foremost it has a huge community that will just surf it and getting people to atleast see it will not be too difficult. Also with the gallery and video functions.. You will have the media advantage. Besides! You may find lots of people that will give Orbiter a try and maybe actually participate in ops!
Idea #2 Fantasy Missions! And by fantasy I do not mean just jumping in a DG and saying "LOOK I GO TO MARZ!!1111!" I mean a different take on current manned and unmanned programs. For instance look at Velcro Rockets [ame="http://www.orbithangar.com/searchid.php?ID=3388"]Velcro Rockets v1.1[/ame] You will notice such crazy things as Delta 2 with larger SRBs.. Proton with R7 boosters and other interesting designs. Look further and you get more crazy stuff like Delta 2 SRBs on a Titan 2.. [ame="http://www.orbithangar.com/searchid.php?ID=1031"]CVEL Titans v1.34[/ame] My point is. Why launch a boring Delta 2 mission to Mars when you can launch a shuttle mission to launch an Orbiter and lander towards the moon? There are more ideas I can come up with and will share them later in the topic.. Just remember. Originality draws interest!
These are a few of the ideas I have decided to share just to help the VSA community. Which I have seen drop in quantity and quality over the years. Be different!
Well the simple fact is VSAs are not as popular as they once were. And your VSA stands about a 90 percent shot at failing before it's first anniversary.
There is a reason for this in my view. If you think for even a moment you are going to get insulted by any of this. Just hit the back button because it aint pretty!
First and foremost in my view starts with basics. If you think you can even approach such as SimNASA or the old VUSSP with a site on freewebs or any of these other free web hosts you are in for a world of fail because not one has worked right. Want to know why? Because HTML tempates and editing with notepad went out years ago. (BTW speaking from personal experience. Running a VSA from a Wiki is FAIL as well.. Just FYI)
Second. Simulating prior real life space missions is boring ESPECIALLY if you have no means to actually track it online and end up with a "Space Blog" It has been done TIME AND TIME again! People watch NASA clips when they want to get their Gemini or Apollo fix... How about simulating somthing new?
Third.. The public needs to be involved. Nobody gives a flying hell that you are putting up a station if you ignore their thoughts about it. Their tips and their experiences.
Now I am not just going to walk away after throwing that bag of words. I have some suggestions that may or may not assist in your efforts to restore greatness to the VSA community.
Idea #1 Has anyone considered MySpace? First and foremost it has a huge community that will just surf it and getting people to atleast see it will not be too difficult. Also with the gallery and video functions.. You will have the media advantage. Besides! You may find lots of people that will give Orbiter a try and maybe actually participate in ops!
Idea #2 Fantasy Missions! And by fantasy I do not mean just jumping in a DG and saying "LOOK I GO TO MARZ!!1111!" I mean a different take on current manned and unmanned programs. For instance look at Velcro Rockets [ame="http://www.orbithangar.com/searchid.php?ID=3388"]Velcro Rockets v1.1[/ame] You will notice such crazy things as Delta 2 with larger SRBs.. Proton with R7 boosters and other interesting designs. Look further and you get more crazy stuff like Delta 2 SRBs on a Titan 2.. [ame="http://www.orbithangar.com/searchid.php?ID=1031"]CVEL Titans v1.34[/ame] My point is. Why launch a boring Delta 2 mission to Mars when you can launch a shuttle mission to launch an Orbiter and lander towards the moon? There are more ideas I can come up with and will share them later in the topic.. Just remember. Originality draws interest!
These are a few of the ideas I have decided to share just to help the VSA community. Which I have seen drop in quantity and quality over the years. Be different!