I think that a Chrono Wiki is just a red herring. It was the point of contact of Boo's thrust, but not the force behind that point, as it were. The compendiums' encyclopedia is good, no one is doubting that (though I do doubt the usefulness of creating a non-associated wiki), but the theme, the thesis statement, if you will, is spreading awareness of Chronodom.
Zeality, I must disagree; there is no end to what we could do, but what we need isn't so much thinking, rather we need doing. You should know this better than most. How many ideas (the result of people thinking) have you seen burst onto the scene only to fade away without fruition? Compare that to the number of people who have started a project and hung on, continuing with it for several years. Chronodom doesn't need just dedication but rather sisu (a Finnish word that is often described as heroic stubbornness, akin to washing one's car in the rain or the sort). I can think of two such individuals off the top of my head (and curiously, they've both posted to this thread), but not many more than two.
No, the limiting factor isn't thinkers but doers. With just a hundred people with the dedication you and Ramsus have shown with the Compendium, a new official game could be demanded (and that demand met) with ease.
If we want ideas, well I can provide a crap load with little effort (and I think most other people could too):
1) Do you have a wireless network at home? Remove the password protection and change the networks name to "Chrono Trigger" or "The Chrono Compendium." You are advertising every time someone logs in.
2)
Chrono Puppet Pals.3) Baking with Belthasar, a podcast were everyone's favorite insane old man shares Zealian cooking recipies.
4) Chrono Trigger: The Musical ("Flying through time, flying through space, we're all working for, the human race. Gonna stop that Lavos, Gonna stop him good. Gonna ditch the entron and get some food.")
5) International Old-School Day, a day dedicated to appreciating our gamer heritage. Pick up a classic, play it, and share it with a friend. (And Chrono Trigger counts as a classic, no? How terribly convenient
) (I'd propose July 15th)
6) Need a gift for a birthday, wedding, bar mitzvah, or hoe down? Give the gift that keeps on giving; give Chrono Trigger (or Chrono Cross). Nothing says love'n like some game from Japan.
7)
Chrono-Con8 ) Having a child and need a name? Try
THIS list of baby names.
9) If people can study old movies in college, why not old video games? Academia is just ripe for Gamer Scholars (and thus we might see a Chrono Trigger dissertation or two).
10) There are young'uns around here. How about a few go get jobs at square and become the very professional developers that will make the new game?
11) If towns in Vermont can pass such
nonsensical legislation like voting for the arrest of George Bush and Dick Cheney, why not Proposition C: Support for a New Installment in the Chrono Series? We could get it on this fall's ballot.
12)
Go buy a country and rename it "Chronopolis."
13) Become a physicist and credit Masato Kato in all your papers.
14) Spore is coming out soon; create Lavoids, Mystics, Demi-Humans, Dragonians, Reptites, etc. This content will then randomly be distributed to other players.
and so on, and so forth.
Each of those are possible, but likely? Not very, especially not with people-with-persistance so rare. Manpower (and womenpower, to be politically correct) is what is needed more than thinking. Thinking is still necessary, but ideas are downright common in comparison.
P.S. Ramsus, "wiki-links" are those links in the text of wikipedia that connect with related articles. Consider the
Magus article. A wikilink would be a link from the word Alfador that would take one to
his article in the same way that clicking on Schala's name take one to her article. The encyclopedia has these, but they are fairly rare.
EDIT: I don't know how I could have forgotten this other "idea" for spreading the word of Chrono.
Chrono Trigger the Flamethrower!!!
The kids love this one.
