The NWR
Wii code list thread is currently 40+ codes strong after only 56 hours on the market. At this rate it will reach 100 by Thanksgiving. This presents a problem, as the code list on you Wii currently only holds 100 codes.
The problem's made worse when there's a news item on the main page asking people to join our forums just to post their Wii code.
There are already several codes in the list from posters who haven't posted a single message in the forums except for their Wii code. (What's the point of that, anyway? If you never post on the board and you don't know me, why do you want to be my friend and why do I want you for my friend?) If this keeps up there won't be any room on anyone's list for the Bills and KnowsNothings of the forums. (And the wanderings, too, I suppose; but no one really
cares about them, anyway.)
I'm not suggesting that new people shouldn't join the forums; I think we have a great community here and I hope it continues to grow
minus the clownboats, anyway. However, I think we do need to come up with some sort of plan to ensure those people who aren't one of the first 100 posts in the thread still make it onto everyone's Wii.
Anyone have any ideas? I have a couple, but I don't really like either.
The first is we could try to split the board up into teams or *shutter*
clans based on any number of things: favorite game genres, physical location, length of time at NWR and/or number of posts, etc. Thing is, I don't really like this because (a) some people are sure get their feelings hurt, (b) it's not really a fix to the problem, and (c) it's kind of elitist (if you go by length of time with NWR).
The second idea I thought of (and I'm not even sure if it would work) it to create a giant daisy chain. A portion of your friends code list would be dedicated to adding certain people to your list in a way where eventually everyone was connected to everyone else through someone else. For example, if person A adds person B, and person B adds person A and person C, and person C adds person B, then in theory A should be able to play games with person C as long as person B is playing. However, this doesn't solve a number of problems including (a) A and C can't play each other unless B is playing, (b) A and C can't exchange messages or Miis, and (c) it seems like a long, convoluted process that probably wouldn't work anyway.
So is there anything we can do besides beg Nintendo to increase the number of Wii codes you can have?
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