Major forum restructuring

[DrSpike]

All good ideas.

Except the Spore forum of course.

[Mercator]

I'm not sure if you misunderstood what I tried to say.

I didn't mean to say getting rid of the CtP1 forum and merging it with CtP2 General or anything. I just meant moving the CtP1 forum from your proposal into the CtP2 category (and appropriately renaming it to "Call to Power" or so).

It seems a little disjointed to have Call to Power I all alone with the other odd ones out rather than having it join the glorious Call To Power II section.

(If you didn't misunderstand me you can ignore what I just said.)

[snoopy369]

My only pertinent comment is that "Civ4 PBEM/Succession" become "Civ4 PTBS/PBEM/Succession" (or whatever order is convenient) given the prevelance of the PTBS format ...

[Locutus]

Originally posted by Mercator
I didn't mean to say getting rid of the CtP1 forum and merging it with CtP2 General or anything. I just meant moving the CtP1 forum from your proposal into the CtP2 category (and appropriately renaming it to "Call to Power" or so).

Ah, okay. I guess we could do that, although I'd consider that just as odd as having it under Other Games, they are very much different games with almost zero overlap in their communities. I think it'd depend on what the CtP1 guys prefer...

Originally posted by snoopy369
My only pertinent comment is that "Civ4 PBEM/Succession" become "Civ4 PTBS/PBEM/Succession" (or whatever order is convenient) given the prevelance of the PTBS format ...

Fair point.

[Nikolai]

I love PI's games, but the section is not active enough to warrant a continued subforum IMHO.

CtP1 and CtP2 should indeed be under the same category, called "Call to Power".

A dedicated Spore forum is an interesting idea, looking forward to see the outcome of that.

[Jeje2]

On general - I like it.

Good to put site own forum to very top - hopefully more people find it this way.

One small unimportant question:
I know that there is absolutely zero discussion about Colonization (I personnally think it'a the best in Civ-series) - where would this non-existent discussion then belong? Col is almost Civ, but is so much it belongs to Civ general or is it other games?

[Wezil]

I won't comment on the actual gaming forums as I don't play anymore....


I will say the unholy partition of the Off-Topic should be ended. Reunification.

[DanQ]

Originally posted by Jeje2
One small unimportant question:
I know that there is absolutely zero discussion about Colonization (I personnally think it'a the best in Civ-series) - where would this non-existent discussion then belong? Col is almost Civ, but is so much it belongs to Civ general or is it other games?

A small question perhaps, but a good one.

I'd say "Other Games".

[Nikolai]

Really? I'd have said Civ general myself.

[DanQ]

Originally posted by Nikolai
Really? I'd have said Civ general myself.

It's a fair judgment call either way, so either/or forum would be reasonable.

[-Jrabbit]

Good idea, but it doesn't go far enough.

As one of the few remaining Civ2 contributors, I see no reason for any sub-listings under Civilization2. Surely the Scenario League and Multiplaying can be combined with General.

This is probably true for other games as well, but I'm not qualified to comment on those. The key is whether the active threads will be easily found on the main page. My guess is, for most older games, that won't be a problem.

[-Jrabbit]

Given the earlier comment about how the (fairly dead) Civ2 forum is more active than the Civ3 forums, maybe this makes sense:

Civilization - Earlier Incarnations
--Civilization II
--Civilization III

Again, I suspect this approach could be used to combine other related low-traffic games as well.

[Hercules]

Good ideas.

On the Alpha Centauri forum

Include TCP/IP alongside Pbem

This is undergoing a revival due to wider broadband access and Hamachi interface..

[Locutus]

Originally posted by DanQ

Originally posted by Jeje2
One small unimportant question:
I know that there is absolutely zero discussion about Colonization (I personnally think it'a the best in Civ-series) - where would this non-existent discussion then belong? Col is almost Civ, but is so much it belongs to Civ general or is it other games?

A small question perhaps, but a good one.

I'd say "Other Games".

We used to have a Civilization I & Colonization forum, which had so little activity that it was merged with Civ Series General, so any existing Colonization threads are in Civ Series General. Because of that I'd agree with Nikolai, I'd put Colonization threads there. But I also agree with Dan that if people started such threads in Other Games I wouldn't bother moving them, either location will be fine.

Originally posted by -Jrabbit
As one of the few remaining Civ2 contributors, I see no reason for any sub-listings under Civilization2. Surely the Scenario League and Multiplaying can be combined with General.

Hmmm... Civ2-SL is one of the most active forums on the site, if we did that I'd be afraid non-SL threads would get completely lost in all the scenario talk. I can certainly see us merging PBEM with either forum or making it a subforum (I'm definitely starting to lean that way), but I think it would be good to still keep some separation between Scenario League and all other Civ2 discussion.

What Civ2 General definitely does need is for some of its topped threads to be untopped and for the default display to be increased from 'last 10 days' to last month or 3 months, like most forums have. We'll be looking at those things on a forum-by-forum basis once we've reorganised the structure.

Civilization - Earlier Incarnations
--Civilization II
--Civilization III

Hmm, I can see that making sense. We have some internal disagreement over what to do with Civ3 anyway but this is an option we haven't considered yet, so we'll have to throw it into the mix.

Originally posted by Hercules
On the Alpha Centauri forum

Include TCP/IP alongside Pbem

This is undergoing a revival due to wider broadband access and Hamachi interface..

That would fall under the Multiplaying part of the proposed forum title AC Multiplaying/PBEM

[Hercules]

That would fall under the Multiplaying part of the proposed forum title AC Multiplaying/PBEM

I realise that, but it is the same point as Snoopy369 made with regard to PTBS being added to Civ4 Multiplaying sub forum Pbem/Succession.

My only pertinent comment is that "Civ4 PBEM/Succession" become "Civ4 PTBS/PBEM/Succession" (or whatever order is convenient) given the prevelance of the PTBS format ...

Add TCP/IP after PBEM/ in the above A/C sub forum title.