I am Renegade) of http://www.airsoftcanada.com, I have been an airsofter for 7 years, and an Airsoft game host for 6 years.
I am posting here today with the sole purpose of introducing all of you to a project I have been involved in for quite some time, http://www.ops-center.net! Ops-Center is a an event management system that offers Airsoft Event Hosts a new way to create, organize and promote Airsoft games. We are confident that “Gone are the days of sifting through 10 pages of chit chat, to locate all the “in” and the “out” and the dreaded “tent!”. Ops-Center allows you to have all of that discussion board chat, without the scrutiny to the host managing page 1 of the event!
What is particularly neat about it is that it uses google maps to provide you with a geo-location around your local community and from there you can see other players, events, fields, teams and vendors. You can set it to your direct location, or a general one. It becomes a very local experience when your local community starts using it. We have about 300 users on it in Southern Ontario and it is really cool to watch it grow (about 10 new users a day at this point and accelerating).
The system is not designed to supplant or replace local community d-boards, and in fact, we have features that enhance and drive traffic to local sites by hosts using a game graphic embedding feature. Typically d-boards that are used to organize games use post #1 to organize the game. Those game details are actually in the graphic, which updates as the game information changed.
Here is an example: [url="https://www.ops-center.net/events/rush-hour-2/32/sides"]
[/url]Some of the heavy lifting things OPS Center does for a host is:
- completely free to hosts and players
- Comprehensive event description
- Minimum Age Control
- Event Date Arrive/Start/End
- Autoscram the Event if not enough people sign up by a 'drop dead' date
- Host can create 'sides' and the number of players per side
- Players can join and leave events and the roster updates automatically
- Waiting list management
- Dispute Resolution System for Host & Player (warnings and bans)
- Post photos and videos and post game AAR Wall
- Events are SEO optimized so they are google-find friendly
- Friend system similar to Facebook tells you where your friends are playing
- Can use Facebook Login to establish an account, or manual log in option.
- Daily updated security scans to ensure your personal data is safe.
The list goes on...
I could type a lot more, explaining how ops-center is the new and best way I have ever found to host and manage a game, but I will let you draw your own conclusions! Check us out, and we hope you see you, your events, and your fields on OPS-Center in the near future!
"Developed by hosts, for hosts. For the Players!"
Check us out! http://www.ops-center.net
Kind Regards,
Derek
Renegade)
Ops-Center
http://www.ops-center.net
