Quote Originally Posted by Duke John
And this forum would be for the members of the big mods right? The big mods have more to "fear" from each other than from smaller mods. So you are sharing new features with the "competition" but not with the small fish? What is the logic in that? If this hasn't anything to do with competition then why not open it.
At this point, I rather agree. The people members of other mod teams would be most 'sensitive' talking to would be members of other mod teams. Currently, as things stand, if members of mod teams have a technical problem they tend to ask on the Modding Questions forum, where everyone can pop in with their thoughts - there's not been an occasion that I can recall where a team member has said "How can I get this to work?" there and then been inundated with demands from fans to get more info on it - if anything rather the reverse.

So 2) and 3) I don't think are likely situations - and 4) could be catered for by closing it rather than hiding it. 1) though would be a worthwhile ambition to achieve in some manner though - and I think it's clear both from this thread and from the variety of attempts to make smaller modding communities within RTW than some people are looking for a greater sense of identification than the rather woolly boundaries of being part of the wider modding community.

Quote Originally Posted by Duke John
I would have deleted such posts, but then I was a harsh moderator A research forum would definitely benefit from strict moderation.
Previously, the Scriptorium has served as a research forum as well. It strikes me that there are some good synergies there. At the beginning of the game life cycle there's lots of research but few tutorials - whereas at the end there are lots of tutorials and much less active research going on.