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Multiplayer Adventures Forum - Needed or Not?

Discussion in 'Sorcerous Sundries' started by Taluntain, Feb 11, 2011.

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Should we keep the Multiplayer Adventures forum or move all the threads out of it into the games' ow

  1. Keep it, it's good to have all the multiplayer issues gathered in one forum

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  2. Nuke it and move all the multiplayer issue threads out of it into the games' respective forums

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  1. Taluntain

    Taluntain Resident Alpha and Omega Staff Member ★ SPS Account Holder Resourceful Adored Veteran Pillars of Eternity SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) New Server Contributor [2012] (for helping Sorcerer's Place lease a new, more powerful server!) Torment: Tides of Numenera SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) BoM XenForo Migration Contributor [2015] (for helping support the migration to new forum software!)

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    We've made the Multiplayer Adventures forum some time ago in an effort to centralize all the multiplayer issues, connection problems, LAN setup questions, etc. common with the D&D games we cover.

    In practice, hardly anyone posted about these issues directly in this forum, so nearly all such threads had to be moved to Multiplayer Adventures from the games' own forums. This is probably a good indicator that having a separate forum for such issues is counter-intuitive and possibly counter-productive. The question therefore is, should we keep moving all such multiplayer/online threads to the Multiplayer Adventures forum in an effort to make it easier to find threads about such issues, or do you think that it'd be better to just have them interspersed among the other game discussions in the games' own forums? This would make them harder to find among the rest of the game discussions, but more people would be likely to see and respond to the threads in the games' own forums shortly after they were posted.
     
    Taluntain, Feb 11, 2011
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    Move threads for MP on games like IWD, BG, etc to their respective forums.

    Turn Multiplayer Adventures into an MMO discussion section.

    Simples!
     
    Cap'n CJ, Feb 12, 2011
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  3. Rotku

    Rotku I believe I can fly Veteran Pillars of Eternity SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) New Server Contributor [2012] (for helping Sorcerer's Place lease a new, more powerful server!)

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    An MMO discussion section, in a site dedicated to RPGs? Bah! Bah I say! Next you know we'll be having a politics and religion discussion section.

    I do think that the Online Discussion Adventure forum thing's use expired as the big NWN (ie. A Land Far Away) community here slowly died.
     
    Rotku, Feb 12, 2011
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    I say nuke it. If a new user has a question on how to play BG2 in Multiplayer mode, they'll look for the answer or ask their questions in the BG2 forums first.
     
    Montresor, Feb 12, 2011
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  5. Taluntain

    Taluntain Resident Alpha and Omega Staff Member ★ SPS Account Holder Resourceful Adored Veteran Pillars of Eternity SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) New Server Contributor [2012] (for helping Sorcerer's Place lease a new, more powerful server!) Torment: Tides of Numenera SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) BoM XenForo Migration Contributor [2015] (for helping support the migration to new forum software!)

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    80 views and only 4 votes... nobody cares or is the question unclear?
     
    Taluntain, Feb 13, 2011
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    I don't think anyone really cares. To me, it makes more sense to include it in the game's own forum. Heck, I find that I am moving threads to the mutiplayer forum much more than looking at ones that have been started in there.
     
    dmc, Feb 13, 2011
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    it's not really need i think, most questions wind up in orginal game threads, if you keep the forum than at least it should be somewhere near the bottom

    anyway you could use a concept of graveyard which would be at the very bottom and you can put all dead forums there as subforums instead of deleting them
     
    Voy, Feb 13, 2011
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  8. Marceror

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    I say nuke it. I've always found it awkward to have a separate MP forum, personally. If I'm playing Baldur's Gate, whether single player or multiplayer, and have an issue, my natural inclination is to post in the forum for that game. Going to "some other forum" where supposedly the multi-player game gurus all hang out and distribute advice about all things multi-player, well a) it's just one more forum to have to worry about and b) we really don't have the sort of community where this approach makes sense or adds value.

    You probably have better luck getting assistance on a BG2 MP issue, in the BG2 forum where people who love and know that game hang out.
     
    Marceror, Feb 14, 2011
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  9. Taluntain

    Taluntain Resident Alpha and Omega Staff Member ★ SPS Account Holder Resourceful Adored Veteran Pillars of Eternity SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) New Server Contributor [2012] (for helping Sorcerer's Place lease a new, more powerful server!) Torment: Tides of Numenera SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) BoM XenForo Migration Contributor [2015] (for helping support the migration to new forum software!)

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    Well, the general opinion on this matter is quite clear... thanks, everyone.
     
    Taluntain, Feb 14, 2011
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  10. Master of Nuhn

    Master of Nuhn Wear it like a crown Veteran Pillars of Eternity SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) Torment: Tides of Numenera SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!)

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    I'm sorry I'm late! :D It seems to be nuked. Which would have been my suggestion too. :thumb: People don't think: I'm playing a multipayer game and I've a problem with NWN, but rather "I'm playing NWN and I have trouble with a multiplayer game".
     
    Master of Nuhn, Feb 16, 2011
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  11. Taluntain

    Taluntain Resident Alpha and Omega Staff Member ★ SPS Account Holder Resourceful Adored Veteran Pillars of Eternity SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) New Server Contributor [2012] (for helping Sorcerer's Place lease a new, more powerful server!) Torment: Tides of Numenera SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) BoM XenForo Migration Contributor [2015] (for helping support the migration to new forum software!)

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    Yep, done and gone. I'd pass out tissues, but nobody seems to be crying.
     
    Taluntain, Feb 16, 2011
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