You understand me.
Anyways- A forum won't survive if it's all business. The team should honestly consider a dedicated "tavern" style forum. I have frequented the Ambrosia Software forums for 5-6 years now, primarily because of the great sense of community that comes from people of shared interests discussing things other than what brought them together. Ambrosia does this by having a forum dedicated to all of their games, and 2 or 3 others dedicated to whatever the forums goers want (It's evolved into a serious discussion forum, a semi-intelligent nonsense forum, and a complete, spamerific, spam-shower-forum.)
The point is, you can't expect a coherent community if all we can talk about is Europa Barbarorum. Trust that we all love your game- It's not like we saw it advertised on MTV or something. So give the people who need it an outlet (an accessible outlet... not the difficult-to-find, more-difficult-to-keep-track-of tavern social group) and sanction off topic discussion somewhere you can control it. I think you'll find you'd have the support of the community at large for policing spam and keeping it corralled into it's area and away from the serious forums.
Seacrest out.
Edit- Oh, and those of you back-seat moderate by posting spam about how a topic should be locked- Shut up. Seriously. You weren't chosen to be a mod for a reason, so don't further derail a topic by talking about how crappy and derailed it is. You suck so hard.
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