In case you missed it: New Build Workshop forum...

In case anyone hadn't seen this, they've created a new forum Workshop for builds. While I personally think this will create more confusion then Zwill thinks it will reduce, I did want to point it out so folks know it exists. So now our attention to tank builds will be divided between forums.

Hopefully, once the booze stops flowing and Zwill sobers up, this useless piece of inanity will disappear.

Clicking on the linked image above will take you off the City of Heroes site. However, the guides will be linked back here.

yes...what we clearly needed was....cross posting!!

Yikes! What does that make, three places that builds can be posted?

Agreeing with the general sentiment. I will continue to post builds and build questions in the appropriate AT forum.

Still, nice to see some official recognition for Mids. Go Mids Team

Well, while I will use only this forum to post builds for critique and help, I do understand the idea of trying to give new players an obvious path to build advice and really like the officail recognition of MIDS.

If Mids did not exist I might not even still be playing at all. I certainly would not have two accounts, as I do. My time tweaking builds and studying builds and guides in these forums, and doing research in the Wiki probably accounts for a third of my total time playing.

As for the new forum helping newbies, unless they do something to make it come up in search engines, I don't see it being all that earth shaking. Anybody who finds it will already be in the AT forums too.

I hope that now the existing forums actually come up on page one of a search engine. They did not when I started two years ago, and I copied absolute trash pre-IO builds for almost a month off dead sites like Cold Front before I figured things out, mostly because SG mates told me where to look. I was really new and not forum skilled. Shoot I still don't have a sig, so maybe I am not typical.

With time being so precious, I am not going to scan the unorganized hodge-podge of builds I already see in the new Forum very often. That alone seems like a killer error. Hope it works as intended for new players.

Jak

All of the subject lines being uniform made looking for what I was trying to find seemingly more difficult.

There was something about it that seemed disorienting. Not to mention it seems nearly all the of the build critques have been ignored.

What the Build Workshop forum clearly needs is AT-specific subforums to avoid confusion.






I kid, I kid!!

I've already done one analogy in the Original discussion thread, but I'll throw another one in here that my wife not only got a chuckle out of, but agreed with.

The new forum reminds me of someone taking a shoebox of receipts to their accountant and saying "here".

Nothing sorted.

Some things labeled, but not consistently.

Just "here".

They at first wanted to consolidate the AT forums, and this seems to be a holdover from that thinking. I do not get it at all, as the current AT divisions make SENSE. If you want info about Tankers, you come here, and it logically makes sense to think you could get build advice on Tankers here, which is also true.

Consolidating just makes the forums more complicated, as you suddenly have an all melee forum with tons of different ideas and approaches (which all the ATs really do represent). Same thing with the build forum. I do hope they get rid of it as well.