Forum splitting poll

[Ivan Pedroso]

Lately i have come to think that page one of this forum is clogged with MP-threads. Three reasons to this comes to mind:

(1) The community has grown - sweet.
(2) The strategial nuances and the game mechanics of this great game has been discussed at length, and most of the exciting questions have been answored - that's great (and expected since the game was released a year ago).
(3) Some prominent forum characters have left: Zen, Norfleet, SaberCherry (some time ago), ... - this is sad, and might be related to (2) [don't remind me of ANY other reasons].

MP-threads a great, but ONLY when they are "open". If I look at page one now, I can count (stickies excluded):
17 threads in total.
9 of these are MP related.

of these 9:
2 are open (one is a plea fore a substitute, and not truly "open").
6 are closed (useless to non-participants more or less).
1 Esben's server thread (very important IMO).

I have a suggestion, split the forum in two.
(1) ongoing/closed MP game threads.
(2) all other, including open MP game threads.

People would then rename their thread when it is closed or a sub has been found (a little work), a moderator will now know it is time to move it (some work, don't know how much, but should be little). This will ensure that most of us will still read the main forum mostly, and therefore it shouldn't split up our small'ish community.

The only problem I can see is what to do with Esben's thread. I suggest leaving it in the main forum (it will attract people to MP), and putting a closed sticky with a link to it in the "closed"-MP forum for easy acces.