I believe we should work on our community.
Although the game is not going that good (a lot of complaints from the players), this is not an excuse for the lack of activity on the forum.
We should bear in mind that every day new players are starting this game (I hope) and are checking out what the community is like (by going on the forum). If I would start playing a game where the forum was almost dead (except a few people posting, always the same people..), I wouldnt be too enthousiastic to play for a long time.
I play this game because Im addicted to it (lol) and because I have friends in the HP community. Without the friends, I wouldnt keep on playing I think (not that addicted lol).
This is not a topic against the SI forum, because I believe it doesnt matter which forum has active people on it: as long as the new players clearly know where to find the SI forum, its as good (and perhaps better) as this one.
I have 2 suggestions and am impatient to hear more suggestions.
2 suggestions:
- Make a sepparate subforum for the new players where they can find several hints/tips from players to players. Research calculators, Excel files which are easy to use / moderate,...
- Appoint a moderator who can only move topics to the recycle bin or a round 1 subforum with all the important topics gathered. Its interesting for the new players to only see the topics that are of use. You can imagine what I mean by that (flame topics, silly questions, events in the past,...)
(Suggestion 2 sequel) When I started playing this game, one of the first things that I did, was read the entire forum. I wanted to know all the latest news, the people (who I am dealing with: kids or mature people), tactics,... By not or barely moderating this forum, all the new players will not do this, especially not when there are only 5 topics active of which 2 of them are for fun and have nothing to do with the game.
Its not, I repeat NOT, my intention to start yet another flame topic against Sir Emi or anyone else. Its my intention to give this forum / game a boost. I am willing to work together with no matter who (even HJ yes
). Even if Emi goes into offline-modus again. We all have amused ourselves almost too much with this game and we should let Emi know that we need him to be (very) active because we are way too active to be treated like we have been treated in the past month or so..
(About that last sentence) No offense Emi but you have made some mistakes and yes I know several people have on several (too many) occasions told you what you did wrong.. Im just pointing out that I have the same opinion as Succubus, which was: by being unfriendly towards the creator of this game, he will not be enthousiastic to work on this game. If the community is dieing, why work on the game?
I hope Ebolla shares my opinion and comes back because on moments like this, I start to miss the guy lol