Subforums for Dom2: request for input

[sushiboat]

I agree with Ironhawk and Cainehill. There should be a general forum and a forum for specific Dom2 games that people are seeking, playing now, or have finished (AAR) -- whether the games are MP or SP. I tend not to be interested in mods and maps, but the general forum traffic is low enough that the mod/map topics are not a problem to avoid (and still find other topics) if they are clearly labeled.

By the way, since the subforums were added, refreshing has not worked properly. I used to be shown which topics had unread posts with numbers in parentheses. The numbers in parentheses are still there, but they are incorrect. They just keep getting larger despite the fact that I have already read most of the posts that were new at some point.

[Mindi]

I've talked with Johan and Kristoffer the last two days here in the states and I brought up the subforum modification in those discussions. As I told Truper when I first put in the subforum mod and made the standard subforums for all of the games, these subforums would then be re-evaulated on a game by game basis. With that in mind, as I told Kristoffer and Johan on Friday, Dominions 2 is a slightly different beast than most games when it comes to multiplayer--people don't typically post that they are looking for an opponent as much as they are looking for people to fill out a new game roster. So we will probably morph the Opponents Wanted in with the AAR forum here soon. Although the title will be different, this subforum is really no different than the seperate forum that we already had for Dom 2 Multiplayer Discussions.

However, we will not be removing the "Dom 2 Scenarios and Mods" sub-forum, regardless of how active or inactive the forum is at any particular time. That sub-forum will be standard for any game that has any sort of modability so that users can post and describe their FILES there. The point of this is so that users (especially new users) can quickly go to one subforum if they want to download a user-made map, scenario, mod, etc, without having to search through other threads to find them--this of this as a file archive/registry. The generic name we gave to that forum was 'scenarios and mods', but as I said before, now that we have finished with the subforum initial construction we are evaluating this now on a game-by-game basis, so I will change the title to include maps.

Lastly, another reason we created subforums is to correct the problem we have sometimes with massive amounts of stickies in the main game forums. The more stickies you have, the fewer new discussion threads you see before you have to scroll the page. The more stickies you have, the fewer new discussion threads will be able to fit on a page. We would like to curb this problem by moving any stickies that do not belong in the general forum, into the appropriate subforums.