Whats happened to this forum?

[Jasper The Builder]

When I created my account back in 2007 this forum was the best TW Forum around, it had thousands of active members and the board was actually nice to view. Now it's a ghost town and the board is sorry but horrible.

What happened then?

[TosaInu]

Hello Jasper The Builder,

The software was updated recently and none of the old parts can be reused or easily copied over. Then this vanilla install has its issues to solve. That takes time.

[Megas Methuselah]

I was hoping ETW and NTW would bring in a much larger amount of new guys than it did.

[Alexander the Pretty Good]

CA stopped making good games and they won't support their old ones.

[Subotan]

I arrived

[Megas Methuselah]

Yes.

[a completely inoffensive name]

I arrived

Well you left quite a mess.

[Viking]

wrong. nvm.

[Prussian to the Iron]

CA stopped making good games and they won't support their old ones.

that has notihng to do with the forum....


In all honesty, many of those members you described came over as joint .org and TWCenter members. A huge part of them couldn't keep up with the maturity of the .org, while I changed and adapted to the .org and left TWCenter.

In short, most of the TWCenter people couldnt handle the .org.

[Captain Blackadder]

Quite frankly that is insulting to the members of the twc of which I am one. I have seen just as much immaturity and idiocy in the backroom as in the pit. It is easy to avoid the fools in twc just ignore threads about eastern europe and you are good.

[KARTLOS]

When I created my account back in 2007 this forum was the best TW Forum around, it had thousands of active members and the board was actually nice to view. Now it's a ghost town and the board is sorry but horrible.

What happened then?

i noticed the same thing, i joined the org and twc centre at roughly the same time in 2006. I used to mainly use the org becasue of EB, but the last 6 months i have started spending more time on the tw centre initially due to Broken Crescent. Whilst i am more of a lurker and not really a 'social' user of either forum, i get the impression that twc is much busier than the the org currently - Has this always been the case?

[Beefy187]

In regards to TW related things, I suppose that is the case. They have what? 10 times more members then us?
Org regulars hangs around not only for TW but also for Taverns, Social groups and most of all. Close Org community and our beloved over lord Tosa.

I mean no disrespect to TWC as they are big successful forum and I visit there sometimes, but Org is where I started and it is where I spend most of my time.

[Alexander the Pretty Good]

that has notihng to do with the forum....

You don't think the quality of Total War games might affect participation on a Total War forum?

The Org has always has always been more a community of people who happen to have played a TW game at some time than really dedicated to just TW games, but I think you can't just disregard that right away. Few people post in the ETW/NTW forums because most of the people here aren't excited about the games.

[CountArach]

You don't think the quality of Total War games might affect participation on a Total War forum?

The Org has always has always been more a community of people who happen to have played a TW game at some time than really dedicated to just TW games, but I think you can't just disregard that right away. Few people post in the ETW/NTW forums because most of the people here aren't excited about the games.

This is spot-on my view.

[The Wizard]

This forum doesn't look that empty to me... but that may just be because I don't visit the game forums anymore.

[Arthur, king of the Britons]

TWC is too crowded anyway.
Me like teh org more.

[Prussian to the Iron]

Quite frankly that is insulting to the members of the twc of which I am one. I have seen just as much immaturity and idiocy in the backroom as in the pit. It is easy to avoid the fools in twc just ignore threads about eastern europe and you are good.

i didnt mean it to be, but if you look at most users at TWCenter, you will notice what I have described: immaturity. It isn't an insult to many users there, but you have to admit that many are immature children (many are actually children/tweens).\

I don't wish to turn this into a TWC bash thread, but you must admit what is true.

[tibilicus]

Sometimes I forget this is actually a total war forum. I played Empire but that will most likely be my last total war game. I used to be active within the MP community but slipped out of that to. I still stick around here though because I like the people and I like the discussion. It's still the only forum I pretty much check every day. Sure, it's less busy than its used to be but maybe that gives it a more, errrr, homely feel?

[KARTLOS]

i didnt mean it to be, but if you look at most users at TWCenter, you will notice what I have described: immaturity. It isn't an insult to many users there, but you have to admit that many are immature children (many are actually children/tweens).\

I don't wish to turn this into a TWC bash thread, but you must admit what is true.

Prussian I have just noticed your join date- how on earth did you manage 2500 posts in a year!

[pevergreen]

Its amazing how many situations warrant external consulting for teenagers these days. Prussian is simply doing what we all should have done as teenagers: Ask those who have been through it for advice on anything new.

[Subotan]

Prussian I have just noticed your join date- how on earth did you manage 2500 posts in a year!

He needs advice for all the laydees he pursues.

[al Roumi]

You don't think the quality of Total War games might affect participation on a Total War forum?

The Org has always has always been more a community of people who happen to have played a TW game at some time than really dedicated to just TW games, but I think you can't just disregard that right away. Few people post in the ETW/NTW forums because most of the people here aren't excited about the games.

I would hazard a guess that there are more people here who activley play Paradox games than CA ones... Funny really.

[Ibn-Khaldun]

Sometimes I forget this is actually a total war forum. I played Empire but that will most likely be my last total war game. I used to be active within the MP community but slipped out of that to. I still stick around here though because I like the people and I like the discussion. It's still the only forum I pretty much check every day. Sure, it's less busy than its used to be but maybe that gives it a more, errrr, homely feel?

This is exactly why I have hard time leaving this place. I just like Org's "homely feel" as you put it.

[Megas Methuselah]

He needs advice for all the laydees he stalks.

Fix'd.

[Centurion1]

Quite frankly that is insulting to the members of the twc of which I am one. I have seen just as much immaturity and idiocy in the backroom as in the pit. It is easy to avoid the fools in twc just ignore threads about eastern europe and you are good.

what about eastern europe......

i checked out the twc once it looked scary and those damn reputation points annoy me.

2500 post i had like 12 posts until i realized the tavern existed last year.

i like the .org because i know almost everyone and i can recognize most people as soon as i see their avatar.

its nicer and more polite without being juvenile.

but yeah the homey feel is whats best.

even though i have to deal with canucks like megas.

[tibilicus]

Oh another thing, all the good mods like barocca, BKS, and Beirut left.

Now we have a bunch of ostralians running the show! Lame!

[Subotan]

Fix'd.

I nearly put that

[Beskar]

Prussian I have just noticed your join date- how on earth did you manage 2500 posts in a year!

Good thing you never saw my join date or post count...

[Beefy187]

Oh my Beskar. You post more then Pizza?

[pevergreen]

Now we have a bunch of ostralians running the show! Lame!

Oh no, 3 Australian moderators...two of which are Backroom.

How many american moderators?