How can we improve the forum?

Thanks for commenting Roumsen.

In regards to the banner. I presume you mean the banner on the main page. The category for Godus has its own banner and likewise for the category for The Universim. I do want to have a whole new banner for the main page. Before we can get one however we would have to make some other changes first. Namely we have to come up with a new forum name. It wouldn't make sense to have a banner that suits the new direction and still have the name Godus on it. There has already been some discussion about a new name but we have not reached any conclusions and I've decided to let it rest for a little while. Rest assured that once we are moving forward on a new name there will be a new banner.

I fully support the idea for a subforum for the playdates (though I don't like the word playdates as it sounds really childish). Qetesh kinda went on a roll with a whim here and started this initiative without really discussing it with me. I think perhaps a new section called Community Events might be an appropriate idea. Perhaps once the mrs gets her ass out of bed we can have a chat about that.

In regard to subforums for other games, that is exactly what I created the Other Games section for. As Godus is our origin it makes sense to me to keep this as a main category. I think the addition of the section for The Universim should give a nice balance to this and therefore that is also a main section. If I create a new main section for every other game however the forum would soon become a mess. A game would have to be really deserving to get its own main section and that means it should have a lot of information and stuff to be talked about. Therefore all other games besides Godus and The Universim should have to get a subforum in the Other Games section, at least for now. I would be happy to create a subforum for any game that anyone would like to suggest. If I create such a subforum though, I would expect the person who requested it to make a good effort of actually making that subforum an interesting place. I can't be the one to provide all the content on this site. I have put a lot of effort into The Universim section and I intend to keep doing that. I cannot do the same for every other game, though I would be happy to participate in case I find the game interesting. So in other words, if you would like to have a subforum for Thimbleweed Park, I would be happy to create one for you, but I would expect you to basically manage that subforum.

In addition, I created the Other Games subforum with the idea that it would over time slowly fill up with more games and grow. For now there is no reason for it to have genre subforums. But the idea is that once there is a sufficient amount of games of a certain genre to create a subforum for that genre.

No pressure Roumsen, we are indeed happy to just have you here. I was hoping for a SH sub forum as well. Maybe on older game one too, we could do Populous, or B&W, or TH as an homage to our roots too.

Yes, but only if those posts actually warrant a new topic. As was the case in this instance there was a lot of discussion about something that in my opinion wasn't really a topic and those posts just had to be moved out of their thread of origin somehow so that is how the dumping ground was created. The only other option would have been to delete the posts. I thought it was better to have the dumping ground. As you have seen if there are further discussions on it that deserve a new thread of their own it will be created or the posts will be moved to a suitable existing thread. For now it is just handy to have the dumping ground, but perhaps in the future we will find an alternative solution.

You are free to start one but I fear it will just turn into another negative thread.

Ah, what the heck, if I'm gonna be an optimist, I better be consistent about it. I'll give it a go

The only problem with good intentions is that their is bad intentions to follow. Thankfully and unfortunately, both are countered with superior numbers by people with either.

There is the NEW Participated button at the top right that does that does it not?

Maybe that's what you're looking for:



(in the upper left corner, right under "last updated", there are links to the recent threads, recent posts and the RSS feed)

You know, I never even knew that was there. Thanks for pointing it out Roumsen. I actually discovered a thread through it that I somehow managed to miss.

If you're on the forum as much as I am it doesn't really matter though. Maybe you should just visit more frequently Matthew Allen.