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For those of you who don't know of it, Smash camp is open for registration! Come and join for two weeks of fun filled Internet adventures! I am hosting this year under the name Zack so if you have any questions, feel free to PM me here or on the site! Make sure you represent NF or which ever forum you choose~

http://s1.zetaboards.com/Smash_Camp/index/

I'm very pleased to announce that zane09 has been promoted to the rank of Sage!

Steve (zane) has been a very loyal and helpful member for NF, and his promotion is fully deserved.

Congrats!

After some discussion, it was decided a new staff member was needed to lighten the load. It's no secret that some of us (including myself from time to time) are having trouble finding time to be here daily and do more than check on the board. While we evaluate ourselves, we thought a new staff member would be a good idea to help out in the meantime.

Please welcome 55K who will be working in cooperation with LG and the rest of the staff to both moderate the forums and to help with some of the contests! Right now he's officially temporary but could be permanent in the near future.

In addition, we relieved Ice of his duty until he finds time to come back. As some of the older members may know, we have a bit of a curse when it comes to moderators in that they seem to disappear on us after a short time. Ice is welcome back at any time and we certainly hope he does decide to do so.

NF Staff

For a while now, the currency system has been outdated and underused. A bit ago we started making plans that will allow the currency to truly play a role in how users post and interact on the forums. From now on, posting, participating in contests, and user stores will have a bigger impact.

I guess the first piece to note is the change in name. Coins are a valued currency in any Mario game so we thought we'd share the sentiment and convert the system to something easily related to a Nintendo franchise. Along with that, we've added a coin emote: ":coin:" You can use it when referring to the money rather than the US dollar symbol ($).

Like 'Club Nintendo', we've decided to have our own system where we give our users incentives. To view these incentives, view our brand new Prize Store where you can purchase forum privileges, accessories, and even games! All the info is provided within the thread and any questions can be posted there as well.

That brings us to the new transfer thread! The Gold Coin Transfer Thread will serve the same purpose as the previous transfer thread but allows a fresh start. An important thing to note is that right now you can request your nintendollars to be converted to gold coins. While it may say you have 700 gold coins, know that you haven't truly converted. We will offer this conversion until the end of June which gives you plenty of time. After that, your nintendollars will flat our be gone. Don't delay.

Just to note, the coding is changing a bit so if you notice oddities pay no attention to them as they'll surely be rectified.

Becoming a sage at NF is no small order. The qualities on display from this prestigious group of members are there for all to see and they continue to help and enhance the community in every way. I'm pleased to announce that the staff have decided that we have another member worthy of such rank at Nintendo Forums, and let me be the first to congratulate 55k on obtaining his new rank of Sage!

Well done dude, very deserved.



Also, just a heads up for you guys wondering about Nintendollars and such, in the very near future we'll be addressing that for a better and more rewarding service for you, just give us a bit of time, please D:

Just a quick announcement for those wondering over the past couple of days who, what, and why things have changed a bit.

I decided it was time for a little break, after a few years (has it been years?) of administrating the forum. I still have access to the ACP and a number of its functions for the sake of maintaining a few things, however. I suppose I could come back in the future but a leadership change will do some good.

As though it were 2006, Kez and I did a bit of a switch. I promoted him and dropped myself down. He's been here before, he knows how it all works. Big congrats to him.

Now come the newbies. Ice and Rebecca have been great members over the years and they genuinely like helping the board: something we appreciate and will acknowledge given the time. They will no doubt be great assets to the board as newly appointed staff.

As for the rest of the staff, they remain the same. Their absence (excluding LK) has been hard for the board but we hope the addition of some staff members will push along some much needed changes for the board.

Congrats guys.

I know this is a bit late to be making this topic, but I was hoping Matt would make it.

Whether you're an NF veteran or fairly new to the community, we want to thank you for dedicating whatever time you have to give to NF. We rely on our tight-knit community to keep us alive and we'll do whatever we can to make it interesting for you guys. This isn't a milestone for only the staff, but for us all. There's no too many IF/ZB forums that can say they've lasted 5 years so it's quite an achievement to still be going strong.

Also, a special thanks to Liongirl (Rebecca) and smooth_move (Amber) for setting up and managing our scavenger hunt. Great job to Wolf and Chopstix for solving it and for being the first to be in our Contest Winners group. We might be setting up some contests soon outside of the bash (we couldn't set them up quickly enough for them to make it in, which is why the contests were fairly small this year) so stay tuned.

As a final note, we've also hit 400k posts. It's not every day we hit another 100k posts but maybe we can set a record by hitting 500k posts even faster than we hit 400k.

So, 5 years. Congrats and thanks to everyone!

Congratulations to Amber on her promotion to sage! A few of us agreed she'd be a fine addition to our sage group! She's been promoted for her consistent great posting quality and activity. Her contributions have definitely earned her a spot. We hope you join us in planning things for NF.

Speaking of plans for NF, we're currently in the process of removing and altering things around NF. Here's a list of things we've changed thus far:

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• Removal of Private Chats
  
• Removal of Team Forums (shortly)
  
• Addition of Twitter to all themes
  
• Promotion of Amber to Sage
  

We have other things in the works but this is what we've discussed so far. Stay tuned for contests and more!

The last theme that will become available for a while is the Metroid theme. It is now available for selection in the theme chooser. As suggested by Rustyscrew, we thought a nice, dark Metroid theme would make a nice addition to our now quite large theme family.

As a second note, I also finished the webpage that displays all of our themes before you select them. You can find a link where the drop down of themes used to be at the bottom of the page. Simply click on a preview picture to start using it.

If you find anything wrong (especially IE users, I haven't checked thoroughly), just post here and I'll fix it.

Hope you guys enjoy.

Yeah, if you guys have any suggestions for the theme name, shoot it in a post here.

This is the latest product for NF and I bet you can guess the theme here. :o This is one of my favorite themes to date and hope you guys like this new addition to the theme family.

Right now, we have an LoZ theme planned for the future but suggestions are always welcome once again.

Enjoy.