Re: Extreme Measures. (forum Restructure.)

[Grand Admiral Thrawn 889]

We are meant to be  restructuring the Forums well if that is true can we lose the EAW banner from the top of the page and add some of the most popular games advertised there.

 

Deorientate the site make it the Multi games site that we need it to be. Diversify the topics. Merge the EAW group with the Games area group. and as much as it pains me to say it make a special Star wars area then de-Star Wars the rest of the Forums.

 

encourage everyone who comes here to advertise the Multi gameness of the Forum.

 

i know that these are some what extreme measures but if we are to save the Forum then they must be done.

 

It MUST be done to save this Forum from the inevitable decline and death, that we can see coming.

 

ok the structural changes that maybe nessecary-

 

EAW+UAW+ Petro Devs Down to one sub section (FOsh doing anyway later today)

Holonet News renamed. + cleaned up to be less Petro yay. plus add all hosted games news to it. E.g. when new vids are out (like we did with EAW/FOC)

Games Arena Moved to top and EMPHASISED!

SCI-FI universe stays but we gain say a Fantasy and general sub section as well.

Modding Area gets diversified to more than just M2:TW and EAW/FOC

Jedi Mastering Labs renamed from the Star Wars name.

Merge Star Wars orientated topics into the Star Wars Libary.

 

these changes may take a long time but as ive said i believe they are need to save the forums.

Edited February 13, 2007 by Grand Admiral Thrawn 889

[Foshjedi2004]

I'll work on the structure a bit later today.  There are certain things that we cannot really do, For the moment at least.

 

I don't know if substance has FTP access or not to the SWR server so we can't upgrade the Top GIF.

[Ghostly_Substance]

Don't think I have FTP access. Before I could respond to GAT on MSN he went away. Well before I post I need to think more about it.

[Star Wars Man]

Ahhh....I remember the days where we had only, like, 20 members and everything was "ZOMG E@W IS TEH BESTEST GAME EVAR!!111!1" Now, we are having to fight for our forum's life. Seems strange, seeing as a year ago we were in Hog Heaven. Now, we have to restructure to survive. Is this a new stage in PFF Evolution? Aer we doomed for a life of enslavement? I don't really have any answers. As a matter of fact, I quit modding E@W & FoC when I moved to the new computer due to the fact that I lost 95% of all my good coding in the move. It seems as though PFF will need to evolve, to morph into something new, in order to make it. It will be interesting to see, in the coming months, what PFF will turn out to be...

[Dorkthehunter]

@ GAT: Can't thank you enough for helping push this to reality. Thanks.

@others: Thanks as well for posting here.

 

Anywho...we need these changes. I voted "right away" because I think we should at least start them now so that we don't get into the habit of procrastination.

 

On a side note: Are there any games we haven't voted on yet that you would like to?

 

Edit: I just noticed that I think the Fan-Fiction forum is way too hidden. It already has some troubles in posting, and now when no one knows where it is, it is doomed. Putting it back where it was, but changing the description to get it away from SW and more generic would work.

[Cain]

If we only had FTP acces ... but I do remember that someone has insisted that SWR is great .... oh well.

[Grand Admiral Thrawn 889]

Cain i thought you had that FTP access? ok then maybe someone needs to hunt down Evader...

[Foshjedi2004]

If My memory serves me correctly it was JediIgor who convinced us to use SWR as the new host.

[Grand Admiral Thrawn 889]

ok next measure all the games which have been voted for i DOrks topic need to have indepentant area for them now that they can be talked in then people need to go on the areas that they are normally talked about gather information about it and then post it here as well as leaving a link to the site saying about what we talk about as well as.

[Ghostly_Substance]

For the game titles we're covering I think master of games should be PC (with the Spore, MTW2, and Pacific Storm alone) then with 2 sections of Playstation 2/3/PSP and Xbox/Xbox 360/Zune section with its game titles under it? What you think?

[plokoon9619]

Yeah eaw is dead and none of you ever play it much. Just a modder playing by himself, or i dont have time excuses.

[Foshjedi2004]

I play it all the time

[Dorkthehunter]

Yeah eaw is dead and none of you ever play it much. Just a modder playing by himself, or i dont have time excuses.

 

That is part of the reason that we are moving away from EAW. My excuse is that my computer is stupid and it won't work online anymore(graphics card almost dead)

[Grand Admiral Thrawn 889]

FAir Enough guys thanks for making the seperate boards for all the games which have been voted for. If when it becomes busier you need a mod or high (*nudge nudge wink wink*) to monitor it then i might be able to make it work.