Do we need another forum?

[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.

[nakomus]

I don’t know if this can be done without Moderator intervention with the current software, but what would be nice in my view is if MP game threads were moved into a separate forum once the game was filled. For this to work well the thread poster would need to be able to do that.

That way everyone can easily keep an eye for games starting without being buried in threads for long running games. That being said, I don’t play MP with the forum people much (at all, currently) so its not a big deal to me either way, although I would like to decrease the clutter on the main board.

[Arryn]

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

Perhaps if the forum were split, and a dedicated Dom 2-only MP game forum created, those who are creating MP threads might actually be encouraged to post in that forum rather than in this one. The existence of a general-use MP forum, as it stands now, does not seem to have registered on the consciousness of the Dom 2 MP players, or they don't like Dom 2 threads mixing with those of other games.

[NTJedi]

The forum should definitely be split into at least three others. Why we're stuck with one forum is just sick when compared with other game forums.

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

[archaeolept]

well, that's far too many. there do seem like an extraordinary number of game threads lately, so you could easily argue for a subforum. I'd just be a bit worried that a lot of people wouldn't notice new games as readily.

[NTJedi]

I'd just be a bit worried that a lot of people wouldn't notice new games as readily.

As long as each forum is properly titled that shouldn't be a problem. Other official game forums typically have at least 4 other sub-forums.

[Nappa]

I think having a seperate forum for MP games is a good idea.

[NTJedi]

There's several reasons to have multiple sub-forums for any game:

1) Makes searching a forum more effective and less time consuming.

2) When developers wish to review/examine technical game issues they will have a specific forum for this. Currently they only have a topic sticky which doesn't always get used. Plus how many times have we seen new topics where some gamer can't get the game to work where they haven't tried updating drivers or clean-booting the system... we would rarely see these if there was a technical/bug sub-forum.

3) A multiplayer forum would allow those gamers to easily find new/current games and other related topics.

4) I'm sure I've missed other reasons as well since several sub-forums exist for virtually any PC_Game. Since there isn't one popular game I can think of which doesn't have several sub-forums on the official website... Dominions_2 deserves the same respect.