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Attendance dropped when TW games became more spectacle than strategy.

[Axalon]

Might be an idea to have off-topic forums on the top, then hosted mods, then expanded game list. Seems silly the most active areas are near the bottom than at the top.

The coloring and bolding is mine... Am I correct in the understanding that you will now set up individual and separate full sections for each TW-game? Is such a reading (of that part) accurate? ...?...
Other then that... I have no objections to that order, personally... If you want off-topic on top on the index - fine, have it on top - it makes little difference to me.

But there has to be a way to combine this in a way - I would have the Hosted Mods in the middle, definitely, but somehow we need to have the historical TW side first up.

Well, the simplest solution to that is to put TW-Warhammer at the bottom of the index - using the BS-excuse that its not "historical" and therefore exempted from the standardized order of TW-games on the index, or something along these lines. Its pretty thin, but it will probably still be the most broadly accepted pretense for it. That stunt would then give you just that - "historical" TW on top - and from your post earlier, I assume you want/prefer a reversed chronological order of TW-releases on the index - Attila-section first and STW1-section last. I can live with that. Its either way, chronological or reversed-chronological - its the only two orders that will make sense somehow. Regardless, if you guys decide to go with this mentioned solution on Warhammer, I beg you to be consistent. Once Warhammer 2 shows up and gets released - it too, goes to the bottom of the index...

However, Warhammer TW poses a conundrum because the MP and modding forums are empty. Literally empty. And they're not doing the Org any favours.

I absolutly agree... That the barren emptiness of Multiplayer and Mod sub-index-sections is not doing much for first impressions of the site. Personally, I see no truly good or desirable solutions on it. It seems that the least lousy one is probably replacing Multiplayer sub-section with a Tech-help-Area instead - as the market for that is likely to be better. Move multiplayer to General Area & Discussion and make it a sub-fora under that. As for the Mods Area-section... Move it up, one notch so it follows General Area & Discussions... And leave it... Maybe post an official note there saying something like "management gladly welcomes all and any such activities (modding) on the site for the warhammer game, but it is up to the users/members to make it happen. All management can do, is to deliver, maintain and ensure a place and space for it." - or some such... It won't be completely empty then, and more importantly, the site-administration makes its intentions and stance on the matter known to all. That's better then nothing I think...

Attendance dropped when TW games became more spectacle than strategy.

Even if we assume this to be true in full - plenty of people are still playing the games. And more importantly, these people still play the TW-games they do like - its up to this site to either roll with that, or get overlooked because it didn't. ...Get my drift?

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[edyzmedieval]

I saw some modifications when I came on today, the Warhammer section has been cleaned up. Thank you admins & mods, it looks much better.

[Beskar]

I did some renaming and some reorganization where it was simple to decide on.

Just for information, this is what people who visit the Org are accessing (since Jan 2016):

Backroom (Political) 148770
Gameroom 90089
Europa Barbarorum II 36056
Pike & Musket 20859
Arena (Gaming) 16730
Medieval: Total War 13827
Frontroom (General) 11910
Entrance Hall 11890
Total War: Attila and Rome 2 9032
Warhammer: General 8729
Medieval 2: Total War 8466
Monastery (History) 7881
Watchtower 7684
Rome: Total War 6513
Ancient TW 6286
Europa Barbarorum 6265
Shogun: Total War 3667
Guides 3642
Napoleon: Total War 3613
Throne Room 1937
R:TW Multiplayer 1597
KLA Collection 1423
R:TW Guides 1405
Gameroom Assembly Headquarters 1094
MTW-Redux 1079
Modding Questions 1053
Total War: Shogun 2 972
Total War: Arena 672
Rome: Total Realism (RTR) 611
*Rest is below 500 views. Removed sub-forums from list (for example EB2 Mod Support forum).

[Montmorency]

Any, uh, user breakdown there?

[edyzmedieval]

Notice the absence of the Empire TW from that list. Interesting.

[therother]

There is a limitation on how these numbers were calculated: in order to assess recent activity, I had to come up with a way of restricting views to recent times. I chose to set an original thread posting date of this year, so all views would be for this year.There hasn't been a thread posted this year in the Empire TW forum, so there are no valid threads to count. That's not an accurate assessment of the forum's views though. Unfortunately, vBulletin does not record the time/date the thread was viewed so it's the best approximation I could think of.