Forum update and submissions

In the same way of ID site? i don't like it very much, but whatever...

I don't like the like system either. In the new forum update, user will have reputation given by members (what we have right now) and post reputation, where with a "rate" button on post_bit (under the post where "edit post" is) you can give a "+1" post reputation to the user. Both are treated differently and they are shown separated in the user's reputation page. Now the question I ask myself is if they are added up in the number we see in post_bit (under the avatar and user stats next to the post).

On a side note, I removed the option of giving minus reputation in both cases for all user groups and admins will be capped at "+1" like regular users.

So Jameswhite and Catone was talking about making a weird kind of a new representation of avatars

If I remember well, it involved Colosseum battles which means coding a battle system, making animation, sounds and this is where I stopped reading :P

About smilies... i'd suggest you to use the NPC/allies still unused, expecially Shadow and Strago

Noted!

While the current shoutbox does kinda run together as a wall of text (I view it on my phone 90% even when I'm at my computer, so small screen has some to do with it granted) but my concern is, will the display of an avatar and date clutter the chat, compaired to the current minimalist, streamlined, shoutbox?

The avatar doesn't take much space. The "E" (Edit) and "X" (Delete) are available to admin, not sure is regular users have those since I haven't tested it with a regular account. The date does take space, but I can set the format to anything supported by the php date() function. All those elements are removable if necessary, event the shout himself. I already tweaked it reducing the font size and avatar size because it looked damn ugly in the beginning.

Edit: I'm also considering limiting a shout to 80-100 characters, because seeing 10 lines shouts is kinda annoying IMO. (at least it is for me :P)

I think it'd be cool if we featured/hosted Beyond Chaos tournaments here, and have an official looking bracket on the main page.

This is somewhat easy to do, given it would be HTML in a pinned post, announcement or event a static <\div\> on portal.php or index.php that you edit directly in the templates when there's a winner or a new tournament.