Do we need another forum?

[liga]

I ask several time ago about splitting the dom2 forum at least in 3 forum:

- map and mod editing (or modding)
- mp game
- other

so, if you are looking for new map and mods or help in map desing you go 1, if you are looking ofr a MP game you go 2 otherwise you stay 3 ...

I think people usually are looking for this 3 things

good play
Liga

[daesthai]

I know I don't exactly pull a lot of weight here, but for what it's worth, I really like liga's three forum idea. Yes, I'm interested in all three aspects, but I typically come to the forums here with specific thoughts in mind, and that would certainly make it easier to find things.

[NTJedi]

Yes most games released have multiple forums such as:

General Gameplay
Game Strategies
Technicial Help & Bugs
Editor and Mod Making
Play-By-Email games
Multiplayer


Dominions_2 has everything jammed into one forum which is a bad idea.

[Gandalf Parker]

actually the " Multiplayer/PBEM Registry " forum was created in response to the request from Dom2 players. It was supposed to be a place to do the AAR's and such. And there are ones for general OT stuff and for questions to Shrapnel which dont get much use.

I could see one for MODs and one for MAPs and one for FAQ's/NewbieQuestions.

[archaeolept]

meh. for this one i'm of the "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" persuasion.

[Ironhawk]

It's a tough call. On the one hand, you want to have the MP threads very easily available, so that newbies and interested players can get at them with a minimum of hassle. But on the other hand you dont want any brand of forum traffic to get washed out by any other. And that seems to be whats happening now, as MP threads take up more than half of the top 25 or so thread positions.

I mean, even tho I am the one who started this thread I am still torn on it.

One thing I can say tho, is that I am against breaking the current forum out into too many smaller ones. Like its nice logically to have a MOD forum and a Newbie/FAQ forum, etc, etc. But until there is enough traffic to suggest a push in that direction (as there is with MP threads) then I dont think it is worthwhile, given that any division in the forums will result in some division in the Online community (even if it is just as simple as older/veteran players paying way more attention to the MP forum or something).

[Graeme Dice]

There already is a forum for multiplayer games, so there's no need to split this forum.