RTW or Colloseum subforum suggestion

**Tamur** · 10-26-2004, 17:34

Mmm... it isn't historical research I'm speaking of. It seems like it would be out of place in the Monastery to talk about distance-to-capital penalties, yes?

**Mithrandir** · 10-26-2004, 17:40

ah ,never mind my post then.

**TosaInu** · 10-26-2004, 21:02

Hello Tamur,

I guess I've to sit down for a while and think about this. There's a subscribe system right?

It's technically possible to add subforums to the Colosseum. It's a pretty busy forum, or so it seems for my ignorant being. Adding subforums for a more focussed specialism (?) may be a good idea. Comments from other users there please?

**Tamur** · 10-26-2004, 21:13

I'm not familiar with the subscribe system, though I have seen the keyword around somewhere. Is this a way to organise threads into groups? I'll look around the boards and see what I can learn about that.

**Mithrandir** · 10-26-2004, 21:43

Originally Posted by Tamur

I'm not familiar with the subscribe system, though I have seen the keyword around somewhere. Is this a way to organise threads into groups? I'll look around the boards and see what I can learn about that.

You can subscribe to threads, receiving a PM,email or both if someone replies to it.

**Tamur** · 10-26-2004, 21:47

Originally Posted by frogbeastegg

At the same time the new forum is likely to end up with less traffic, and that means less people posting their ideas and questions. Anything in the colusseum is guaranteed to get more views and therefore potentially more replies.

Very good point, and I agree entirely.

Since Tosa posted re: subscriptions, I've been able to check out and start up some subscription folders. I assume this hits the DB a bit, but is exactly the feature I was looking for.

Now to go through my list and subscribe, whee. Thanks for the help, everyone. Unless there are those who Really, really want this to happen, you can consider my request to be withdrawn.

**Blodrast** · 10-27-2004, 01:09

i guess i don't feel very strongly either way, but here are my two cents:
it might be a good idea to have a more game-technical subforum, i.e. stuff about the details of how the game works.

I see several reasons for this:

- stuff like that is not interesting to everybody; people who don't wanna read it can simply ignore the forum, rather than having to go through all posts in the colosseum

- moreover (and this is not repeating the previous post), I'm sure all of you (including you, froggy, as you confessed a while ago after finishing the MTW guide) dissected a few games in your life to the point that a lot of the charm of the game was lost; you may not all share this feeling, and maybe you haven't come across such a situation, but if you have, you'll know what I'm talking about. Since such a subforum would potentially do that, it's better if it were separated.

- for people who _are_ interested in that stuff, and _do_ want to have access to them, it would help them have easy access to that info. Let's face it, searching for something in the Colosseum has a decent chance to come up with too many results, considering the incredible high level of activity it's been seeing lately (and which is likely to keep for a while, esp. considering the upcoming patch, which will be more significant than 1.1 most likely). Moreover, there have been quite a few problems with the database lately, and it seems like a search function won't help that; it's quite possible that search will be disabled for more and more forums, possibly for all. While I do agree that one can subscribe to threads, at the current rate of new threads it is very easy to lose stuff, especially if you're away for a few days...

Again, I'm certain that we can live without it just fine, but I think it may be worthwhile, overall...
That, of course, is merely my own personal opinion ;)

Edit: as for the "less views, hence less activity in it" argument, I'm really not sure it stands (sorry, froggy). After all, it is _exactly_ the same kind of thing as a "Guides" forum !
And yet, we have a Guides forum for each of the TW series !
And if it wasn't an issue for those, why would it be for this one ?
I mean, you can see that the Guides section get very few hits in comparison with the Colosseum, let's say. And as the game becomes more and more familiar to people, the Guides section as well as the potential one we're discussing here will both get few hits, mostly from the really hardcore players, or the newest newbies...
I pretty much see this potential subforum in the same position as any of the other Guides forums, and all pro and con arguments apply to it exactly the same as they would apply to any of those...
Again, I'm not a fanatical supporter of a new subforum, I'm just arguing some logic here...(or at leasy _my_ logic, which probably isn't universal ;)) ).