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Post by NRieh on Aug 28, 2016 12:01:26 GMT
I'm not sure I've got the ready soultion, but I have a feeling that we might want to do something about the Legacy games section.
I understand that the intention was (probably) to keep a single section with some ongoing threads in it rather than split it into several barren game-specific sub-sections, but as the threads would pile up it's going to be very messy very soon.
Someone had tagged their thread title with [game title] (e.g. '[KOTOR] Revan and Bastila'), and it seems like a good idea to make it a rule. It's easier to read the section this way, and it also would greatly simplify the division into sub-sections later (if we ever want to do that once we have enough threads for the game-specific sub-sections).
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Post by Fogg on Aug 28, 2016 15:13:57 GMT
With Jade Empire coming to mobile platforms and this Kotor remake in the making, there could be lots of new players for certain titles, wanting to discuss the game and lore. It might get crowded without subforums. |
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Post by Shades of Night on Aug 29, 2016 11:22:51 GMT
Thing is, you have what Fogg mentioned with reissuing, and along with that you have all the BGEEs and the like reviving that series too. Then add to the mix modding communities for the BG and NWN series... Granted a lot of them likely didn't cross over into the new forums. But still, you'll get people who play both old and new who enjoy all these games, and new players looking to try the older ones. It could be very confusing for them to look in the legacy forum and find topics for BG1, BG2, NWN1, NWN2, JE, Kotor1, and Kotor2 along with a few others... all in one place. Even with specific titles it would be a bit of a mess to find things. Then throw all the expansions for said games into the mix too.
Personally I would be more inclined to go with grouping certain series, like the BG series, NWN series and Kotor series (NWN is the most problematic there because NWN1 and 2 have their own modding communities). But it depends on whether there will be enough posts to fill up such sections. I'm sure with time there will. Then again if people don't see specific sections they might be more likely to go to specific sites (Beamdog, NWN Vault) to discuss those games.
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Post by NRieh on Aug 29, 2016 12:28:27 GMT
Personally I would be more inclined to go with grouping certain series, like the BG series, NWN series and Kotor series (NWN is the most problematic there because NWN1 and 2 have their own modding communities). But it depends on whether there will be enough posts to fill up such sections. I'm sure with time there will. Then again if people don't see specific sections they might be more likely to go to specific sites (Beamdog, NWN Vault) to discuss those games. There must be some lesser evil. Empty sub-sections are bad and discouraging. All-in-one section, however is too messy as is. It seems odd to ask about HOTU OC where people discuss Bastila's romance (and vice versa). May be it's a good idea to group those those existing threads into a sub-section when there are enough active threads for it? 3-5 are good enough for a start, so it looks like KOTOR, NWN and (probably) BG can already get their own shady nooks. I also think that we should cross-link with as much communities as possible. It's ok to tell people that there are more game-specific forums, and we might get some newcomers here in return (that's if vault and beamdog's admins would have no objections). My answer for the poll would be 'Tag the threads for better reading and group them into sub-sections when there are enough threads' |
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