[Rathar]

Ok I checked out the forums you suggest and well..

Although I know little these days, that forum style/type is more appropriate for small-scale MUDing of the 100-200 person variety, not for what you can/will be faced with. EZboard for example is far more set up for your needs (or perhaps I too am used to a certain supposed "standard format" but..)

I have always liked the front end possibilities of the boardtype spaceempiresV.com is using but the user interface strikes me as lame.

Too much wasted space informing me of options I will almost never use between each post and that leads to less information between screens.

Tbh, I have never liked the way this forum is put together either ESPECIALLY it's completely utterly totally useless search function. IF I have to use +-etcetc parameters then it sucks. Period. Did I mention that searching for information in this format is weak/lame/almostimpossible>?

I fully desire someone to point out how much of a time wasting fool I have been in regards to this but you try searching for an exact match to mictlan blood strategies (dominions , soon to be 3) or how to use shields in SE and you might see what I mean.

I REALLY like how sanely moderated these forums are. Screw flames, if you light an inappropriate match here the users themselves let you know and then 1/100000 times the mods have to lock things. Spent time on many a board where A post saying "Roses are red" will end up in a ^%$$%# flame blast ending in recrimination and ridiculous flagrant name calling only to be locked by arbitrary mods of one side or another. The "toast" level in these forums is light "tan" and I like it.

Long winded way of saying that we currently have largely crappy software being used ingeniously.

Rathar