RF Generation seems similar to BoardGameGeek (
http://boardgamegeek.com/ ) in a lot of ways, so I'm sure there are a lot of nifty ideas from there you guys could borrow.
Features on BGG I like, and would love to see in a video game variation:
Some variant on Geek Gold. Geek Gold is a nifty little rewards system for submissions on BGG. Submit a new game, get some GG. Submit a picture for a game, and have it accepted by a mod, get some GG. There are a handful of other ways to earn it, as well, and users can transfer GG to each other (so users hold GG auctions, et cetera). GG is used to buy perks for accounts. Microbadges (think a couple mini-avatar slots underneath the main avatar), avatars, and some other stuff.
GeekLists. These are variations on forum threads, where each post is tied to a board game. Kind of hard to explain, but here is an example :
http://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/31845 . This would be awesome on a video game site to contain all of those lists people always want to do. "Best NES games", "Most Expensive Turbo Grafx Games", "Games I Loved as a Kid and Don't Like Now", et cetera.
They've just got a lot of tools that empower the community, the entire site is driven by user contributions. Users add new games to the database (like here), users submit reviews of games, users can post rules questions / rules variations, et cetera. Here's a sample game page :
http://boardgamegeek.com/game/3076They also offer collection tracking (like here), along with wishlists.
The community for BGG is pretty large, considering how niche board games are. It would be awesome to see RF Generation hit critical mass like BGG, so users can start organizing some of the more interesting things that happen over there. One of my favorites (I haven't participated in one, but I find it really interesting) are the "math trades". These are nifty, computer assisted multi-user trades. See :
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/thread/93555 and
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/thread/287152 for more info. Obviously there is nothing stopping people from organizing that here now, so I'm only pointing out all the other types of contributions that could be taken from a site like BGG for RF Generation.
I love what you guys are doing with this site, so I figured I would drop some suggestions from my favorite site for a different hobby.