We've had the bulletin board at the current state for some months now, and I think it's time we shake them around a bit. This is our proposal for changes, and I would very much like your feedback on them.
The proposed changes
- We rename the the In Production group to Future Anarchy, and merge the In Progress and Envisioned forums into one forum named Suggestions. This because the two forums really don't serve their purpose very well, and you players should have a proper place to post and discuss suggestions.
- We merge the two Organisation Politics and Organisation Recruitment forums into one, named simply Organisations, and move this to the Community group. Recruitment is such a central part of organisations that keeping it apart from the rest has no need.
- We also merge the Story, Player Events and In-Character forums into one new forum named Role-Playing, which also will be in the Community group. All the three forums deal with role-playing on Rubi-Ka, and should not need to be separate. We will also very soon have another feature for covering player events.
- The current Role-Playing group is then empty, and will be removed.
- A Player Polls forum will be added under the Community group. This will allow everybody to post polls, but to limit bumping we will disallow replying. Only voting will bump the polls. If you want to discuss the topic, use another forum. (Putting a link between the poll and the discussion is a nice thing.)
- The Bulletin Board forum will be deleted. Suggestions, questions and comments about the bulletin board can be sent to the team by e-mail, or we might add a thread for feedback in the Community Corner forum.
- Everything else remains as it is now.
After these changes the forum list will look like this:
Funcom Official
Funcom Talks About... (threads by Funcom, everybody can reply)
Official Polls (polls by Funcom, no replies)
Future Anarchy
Next Patch
Suggestions
Game-Play
Beginners' Corner
The World of Rubi-Ka
Rubi-Ka 1 Exchange
Rubi-Ka 2 Exchange
PvP Conflict
Game Mechanics
Game-Play Bugs
Community
Community Corner (threads by Funcom Community Team, replying depends on topic)
Role-Playing
Organisations
Player Polls (polls by everybody, no replies)
Professions
Adventurer
Agent
Bureaucrat
Doctor
Enforcer
Engineer
Fixer
Martial Artist
Meta Physicist
Nano Technician
Soldier
Trader
Test Server
Test Server Bugs
Test Server Discussions
Exploits
Exploits (threads only viewable by Funcom and original poster)
Off-Topic
Non-AO Related
So, let us hear what you think. Suggestions are very welcome, and I am sure you have some.
PS: No, we will not add a rant forum or a war forum, so just forget about it.