Org Promotion

[edyzmedieval]

Make content because you want to make it, not because you think it will attract people. There are no taskmasters or bursars here.

Nobody said that.

Orgahs produce content on their own because they wish to make it - the idea would be to kindly ask them whether they would like to be featured on the Org, making it a win win for both sides.

[Montmorency]

the idea would be to kindly ask them whether they would like to be featured on the Org, making it a win win for both sides.

You might consider an official promotion of pan-TW content, projects, or contests in the Arena subforum. It's a gaming subforum, gets a good deal of board traffic if not posts, and it consolidates anything that involves work or sharing that wouldn't fit in a particular TW game's section. If, I don't know, you want to organize a TW machinima collaboration (as example), the Arena would be a good staging point.

[edyzmedieval]

Why solely restricted to the Arena? This is mostly TW content, content that would bring people over because it has been made by Orgahs.

[Montmorency]

If you want to write an MTW AAR, by all means put it in the MTW AAR subforum. More broadly-construed "pan-Total War content" might go better in the Arena, and indeed content of that nature might be desirable - even something as simple as Total-War inspired art.

[Gregoshi]

If you want to write an MTW AAR, by all means put it in the MTW AAR subforum. More broadly-construed "pan-Total War content" might go better in the Arena, and indeed content of that nature might be desirable - even something as simple as Total-War inspired art.

Such things can be moved or cross-linked from other related forums as needed/desired. We can also promote these things to "articles" on the Org front page.

[edyzmedieval]

Right - but my question is not exactly related.

My proposal would be this - Fellow Orgahs who produce content, would you like to be featured on the front page of the Org, and on the sidebars?

[Axalon]

Alright, so it seems we have apparently babbled enough... Excellent!

Now, can staff/admin now please finally show me your colors so I can get a sporting chance to seriously assess whether or not I will be interested in investing again into this site, and this general Org-reboot. You can't stall it forever, and so far you have done an absolutely magnificent job at it, but it is closing in on a month now, and I need to know if this venture will include, or exclude, me as an active party in it. This of course are ultimatly dictated by what you guys are actually willing to do here. I need to have some clarity here if this is a meaningful investment or not - for me, by my standards. This before I commit or offer any further input and energy to this reboot.

So... Pretty please with extra pink sugar on top, kindly show me what you guys in staff have in mind, and/or what you are prepared to do (index-wise), no BS, just honestly show me (either by PM, or here in public, makes zero difference to me). A representative draft, or a few various drafts, of the site-index as envisioned by you guys - that will do just fine. Just show me were you truly stand at this point. I already know that tons of tasks and challenges awaits beyond that, but I want to see the supposed or the roughly intended foundation that all things are to build upon - the index - the first step...

We have waited long enough as it is.

- A

[edyzmedieval]

The index should not just be the sole focus, we need other areas that we can improve on.

That being said, how does everyone view this push for Org promotion?

[Philippus Flavius Homovallumus]

I'm not sure if this has been pointed out yet, I may have missed it, but the forum structure is basically upside down, a relic of a time when this was the "Technical" TW forum.

So - basically, the social forums, Frontroom, Backroom etc. should be at the top under the Entrance Hall and Watchtower. Everything relating to specific Total War games should be below that, then forums for mods, then archives. Currently you have to scroll all the way down to the Backroom, past the completely dead Warhammer forums, past the huge glut of archives, to get to the social forums where the activity is.

Right now the site looks dead.

Aside from that, I'd break the game forums up by era, so all the Classical games together, all the Medieval games, the Shogun games, then the Early Modern ones. Warhammer can go at the bottom as it has generated the least interest.

In terms of content - something like Frog's unit guides would be a good shout. I'd be willing to do the Roman Factions for Attila for a start, go through all the units, give stats, some opinions on use, add a historical not here and there...