Discussion: English forum changes underway!

Originally Posted by Toqom

I must disagree with this suggestion and posting up repetitious posts is worthless. SGs are not cross server, they can share a chat channel but unless they changed how large SGs can be, the new forum setup makes more sense. Make a SG? post in the corresponding server forum that the SG exists and maybe in your forum signature includes all your SGs and locations. I run about 9 SGs on Triumph, Union, Virtue and Freedom and each one needs recruitment, but I wouldn't collectively recruit for the lot of them, especially on the forums of the game. Honestly, SG related stuff is better matched for your OWN website/forum not here.

With forums the way they are, unless you get a post to your thread, it will get buried pretty quick. Less than a 10th of the players in CoH ever say a word in the forums and as SG recruitment is dying on the forums, they want to consolidate the subforums as they have too many. Best way to recruit? play the game.

Originally Posted by Avatea

Originally Posted by Sailboat

I hate to be the first person to have a problem with the amended plan. I like it, but it will pose one problem for a small number of us.

The Iron Eagles supergroup has a mammoth thread in Player Events. It probably shouldn't even be IN that forum in the first place, as it started out as sort of a SG recruitment thread, but it has long since morphed into an ongoing historical record filled with tales of adventure and our own peculiar kind of heartbreak.

I understand that almost everything else in the Player Events section is just publicity for events that occur at a fixed point in time, and as such, rapidly fades away in relevance, but I personally feel like the Iron Eagles thread is different. We play by our own voluntary "hardcore" rules, and delete our characters when they are defeated. Many have fallen, and the characters are now gone -- only the tales of their epic deeds remain, in that thread.

I hate to plead for special treatment, but would it be possible to move the entire (admittedly huge) thread somewhere? The SG is based on the Justice server, so perhaps the Justice Server forum would be the best home for it?

That kindness would make us very happy and still permit the planned consolidation of forums.

Thanks for reading,

Sailboat

PS: I will PM this post to Avatea. Fingers crossed!

Wow, thanks for the help, Avatea!!!

Originally Posted by Sailboat

I note with mild irony that we've apparently added a new forum yesterday (Build Workshop). That's a bit of a surprise. :P

Originally Posted by Suzumebachi

Strangely the SG recruitment board is being deprecated and the threads being put in the individual server boards but the Build Workshop board has been introduced instead of builds being in the appropriate AT board...



Makes no sense.

Originally Posted by Father Xmas

I thought this was a bad idea the previous time it was suggested and I still think it's a bad idea. Multi-Media posts are nowhere near as frequent as Screenshots (possibly because it does take a bit more work) so any new videos will quickly be pushed off the front page never to be noticed unless it's creator cross posts it in City Life like Michelle does.