Idea

[edyzmedieval]

Tosa, I wish we could keep MTW and STW the old way because they are an integral part of the Org and having them as extended forums would benefit us more in my opinion.

[drone]

Tosa, I wish we could keep MTW and STW the old way because they are an integral part of the Org and having them as extended forums would benefit us more in my opinion.

I'm not sure they need the separate sections they had before, they just don't get the traffic the newer games get. But I wouldn't mind the removal of the sub-forum MTW/Single Player/AAR, which is just a link to the Mead Hall anyway, and a move up of the Main Hall so it can be accessed from the main Guild page.

(yes, I'm lazy... )

[Beskar]

Indeed, they are not in dire need of the separate sections as R:TW, M2:TW and E:TW/N:TW (together) are the popular ones, except for Shogun when that comes out.

I think Tosa condensed them very well. Far more moderate condensing than me though, I would have gone further and just deleted the 'console' section (no one posts there at all except spambots), and I would have moved Gameroom, Frontroom and Backroom as main forum sections opposed to subsections (as those three are the most popular three)

[TinCow]

I would have moved Gameroom, Frontroom and Backroom as main forum sections opposed to subsections (as those three are the most popular three)

Yes, this is long overdue.

[Husar]

You could always bookmark them directly, of course this is coming from someone who has a bazillion bookmarks.

[pevergreen]

I'd condense the console games to the same area as the rest of the older TW games, under a subforum "console games"

[Axalon]

Well, this “new sectioning” strikes me as both awful and wrong....

I will remind everybody here that this place is called “Totalwar.Org” – not “Mafia.Org”, not “Tavern.Org” or “Whatever.Org”. It is “Totalwar.Org”…. The place is supposed to deal primarily with TW-games and things connected to that. For instance, I finally became a member here because it dealt with Total War games – and in my case especially for the sake of STW1 and MTW1 and work with MTW1 – which this place was once renowned for…

I have always regarded it as a major strength of this place - up til now – that the Org-administration has so far always treated all TW-games as equals and with dignity – as one should - not bunching up stuff together as (virtually) all other TW-sites do, which is wrong (for several reasons). Jumping on that bandwagon is as big and fat mistake as it gets. I can not say how much I detest that some games (read STW1 and MTW1 folks) are systematically ignored and discriminated against at other TW-sites – usually with some lame excuse that they supposedly “see too little traffic to bother with” and thus such conduct is somehow justified. Are things really so bad that this supposedly must happen here as well?

It is sheer and utter nonsense and has more to do with such site-administrations are too lazy (or usually don’t play or own those particular games themselves) to live up to their self-proclaimed responsibilities - as they should have from day 1. Posts do not generate themselves and that is also true for the STW1 and MTW1-sections as well. For those of us who are not completely clueless here, knows that STW1 and MTW1-sections does see traffic, and does generate new members even today. That alone warrants that these games should retain their previous layout and place - not to mention that both are still undoubtedly individual TW-games in their own right, which yet again firmly warrants such a layout as they previously had…


By all means Tosa, wet-nurse all the fleeting people “who can’t be bothered” to even scroll down to their sections of interest if you wish. If it is not TW-related – I, and probably others with me, don’t care much about were that stuff are located - at the top or the bottom does not matter. Personally I don’t mind some scrolling, but I do mind this current sectioning however (especially in regards to STW1 and MTW1, both clearly deserves their individual sections just as any other TW-game). Thus I propose and urge you the following "sectioning/layout" instead (or some equivalent).



Entrance-Area
Entrance Hall
TW-Guides______________Sub-sections: STW1/MTW1/RTW/MTW2/ETW/STW2.
TW Tech-Help___________Sub-sections: STW1/MTW1/RTW/MTW2/ETW/STW2. - This way, tech-help won’t litter the regular sections (as much).
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Community-Area
Tavern?_________________Sub-sections: Gameroom, Backroom and the whatever-have-you rooms…
Mead Hall?
Throne Room?
Whatever X
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STW2- section (+ expansions)
Single player
Multi-player
Mod-stuff/guides
Hosted Mods
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ETW –section (+ expansions, including NTW)
Single player
Multi-player
Mod-stuff/guides
Hosted Mods
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MTW2 - section (+ expansions)
Single player
Multi-player
Mod-stuff/guides
Hosted Mods
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RTW – section (+ expansions)
Single player
Multi-player
Mod-stuff/guides
Hosted Mods
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MTW1 – section (+ expansions)
Single player
Multi-player
Mod-stuff/guides
Hosted Mods
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STW1 – section (+ expansions)
Single player
Multi-player
Mod-stuff/guides
Hosted Mods
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Non-TW Games – section
Whatever X
Whatever X
Whatever X
Consol games____________Total Warrior etc. etc. if you must… These are not TW-games and everybody knows it…
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Administration section & Misc
Watch Tower
Hardware and software?
Whatever X
Whatever X
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Such a layout makes sense, it is also still true to what this place was supposed to be all about - Total war games, ALL individual TW-games on equal terms – and it has “just” 8 sections (9 with a non-TW-games section included) – and, still all the fleeting “non-scrolling” people who supposedly can not be bothered do get their pampering as well. Furthermore - all TW-games, gamers & modders do get proper and deserved justice in a place called “TotalWar.Org”. Everybody are happy…

- Cheers