Idea

[Prince Cobra]

You mean leaving total war as a base for this forum. In other words going from a game forum to a history forum with some affiliations with certain war games.

I can't say I support rejecting a large part of the current community (judging by the activity in the monastery a very large part) to embrace 1 small theme where we're not even known for over the internet.

We're in a downward spiral as it is, putting all our hopes on the quality of TW:S2 bringing a big number of new members. Totally changing our base/theme practically equals starting a new website with all the insecurities and risks that go with that.

We could be a game forum with emphasis on games on certain historical epoch (or a small number of good games from a certain gaming genre say strategic historical games), which is a bit different from a historical forum. I think off-topic themes could still be everything present, past and future. But the games, the core of the forum would be different, IMHO. And there we always have the Arena to give us diversity.

I don't think rapid change would be productive. It'll be rather a slow process of departing from Totalwar in case TWS 2 turns out to be a failure (which is something I do not really want). That's my opinion of course but I do not think it's good to put everything in one basket.

Here is an idea for a harmless experiement. For example, we could collect votes which game (not TW) is most popular amongst the members of the Org. at this moment and to create a sub forum for it. I think adding more than one game could be dangerous because we may lose focus. That is my idea more or less.