Originally posted by Player Too many “forums” ruins it. If a hands on moderator cared to “file” old threads, all the power to him. Scenario based subforum’s might be worthwhile but many more will overcomplicate.
I think that scenario-based sub-forums would be very good. As it is now, it is a bit tough to tell what scenario a given game belongs to. Also, I would have one sub-forum for general discussion. This would make the forum MUCH more organized, w/o burying it in levels. Each active game would be a thread within its scenario forum, and everything else would be a thread in General Discussion.
Originally posted by ikvsabre
[b]I think that scenario-based sub-forums would be very good. As it is now, it is a bit tough to tell what scenario a given game belongs to. Also, I would have one sub-forum for general discussion. This would make the forum MUCH more organized, w/o burying it in levels. Each active game would be a thread within its scenario forum, and everything else would be a thread in General Discussion.
Joe [/b]
I like this idea myself, although I’m not sure how exactly to set up the “active game” sections. Having a 1650 and a 2950 would be obvious, but should the FA1000 and BoFA games get separate forums, even if they would never be used? It seems like the easiest thing to do would be to make two sections, one for active games and one for general discussions…but then are the game numbers so ambiguous that it’s difficult to distinguish which scenario a specific game belongs to?
I made a poll about this recently and a majority of those that responded supported switching to forums that separated active game discussions from general discussions. Unfortunately, the number number of people that took part in the poll totalled about 15 percent of total registered users, so I wasn’t sure if it was “scientific” enough.
I had sort of dropped this, since I didn’t reall get much in the way of feedback one way or the other, but the general consensus does seem to indicate a preference for at least one forum for active game discussions and another for general discussions. If nobody comes up with any showstopping comments then I’ll go ahead and implement this in the near future.
Originally posted by darrell
[b]I like this idea myself, although I’m not sure how exactly to set up the “active game” sections. Having a 1650 and a 2950 would be obvious, but should the FA1000 and BoFA games get separate forums, even if they would never be used? It seems like the easiest thing to do would be to make two sections, one for active games and one for general discussions…but then are the game numbers so ambiguous that it’s difficult to distinguish which scenario a specific game belongs to?
I made a poll about this recently and a majority of those that responded supported switching to forums that separated active game discussions from general discussions. Unfortunately, the number number of people that took part in the poll totalled about 15 percent of total registered users, so I wasn’t sure if it was “scientific” enough.
I had sort of dropped this, since I didn’t reall get much in the way of feedback one way or the other, but the general consensus does seem to indicate a preference for at least one forum for active game discussions and another for general discussions. If nobody comes up with any showstopping comments then I’ll go ahead and implement this in the near future.
Thanks for the input. [/b]
15% is actually pretty reasonable. Consider that most political polls question between 800-1500 people to guage the feelings of 280 million people. Besides, if people don’t respond, they have forfeited their rigth to comlpain, IMO.
re : FA1000
do you really think it would NEVER be used? I haven’t played MEPBM for a while (like 3-4 years), but I recall FA1000 having a decent following (although not as good as 1650 or 2950 of course). Hell, I was considering sending in a setup for FA1000 myself.
Having 5 sections isn’t overdoing it (4 scenarios plus 1 general discussion). The demarcation line is pretty intutive.
At the very least, split it into two. Add my vote to splitting it to individual sections for each scenario. As I recall, it was like that on DGE’s forum section, and no one had any complaint that I was aware of.
