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Stormwind Bloodfeather
Minmatar Sogdian Traders Inc
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Posted - 2008.08.25 11:53:00 -
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CCP... I have used many forums from many different MMORPG companies. Everquest, Vanguard, and for the two weeks I played it, World of Warcraft. I also host several forums of my own using phpbb based software.
In MY opinion you would do well to consider switching to a more robust forum product than your current fair. Considering the number of forum users -vs- players, you could actually get by with a phpBB based product but it would be stretching it's limits some.
Currently the search function of the forums leaves so much to be desired that it is effectively useless for any meaningful searches. Again, a phpbb based forum would actually have a more robust search feature with greater personalization than the current set-up. But the membership limitations the software has may make it unuseable for this type of forum
The layout is to be honest, worse than basic and stilted, you really would do well to add a subforums feature to allow for more in-depth and topic related discussions.
IM features may or may not be a good idea for a game forum... they have the negative aspect of being easily abused.
The UserCP access is very non-intuitive and can be frustrating to find when you want to. It needs a major upgrade to make it more user friendly.
All in all, while I am sure all of these topics have been mentioned before, the fact that the forums are still running w/o any real effort at upgrading them is sad.
There are many variations of forum software that are significantly better than what your using, although I don't know how your forum is ported into the database, being as it's asp, it must be insanely clumsy and resource intensive.
My suggestion would be to open discussions with the various forum software producers and see which can offer you the best full featured product that can port over your asp based forums for the least pocket pinch.
Storm
In EVE, your only friend is your ship and it's weapons. All others are the enemy! |
Concorduck
Gallente
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Posted - 2008.08.25 11:54:00 -
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FIRST! -----------------------------------------
Originally by: Crumplecorn Contact the CSM about it, voting themselves into disbandment wouldn't be pushing the boundaries of absurdity for them.
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Mankirks Wife
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Posted - 2008.08.25 12:33:00 -
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It's just the game - weird, clunky UI but once you get used to it it's fun and you can whine and flame and give advice and do everything else people on forums do. ---
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Crumplecorn
Gallente Eve Cluster Explorations
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Posted - 2008.08.25 12:47:00 -
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ASP, lol -
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Cailais
Amarr VITOC
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Posted - 2008.08.25 13:04:00 -
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Originally by: Stormwind Bloodfeather My suggestion would be to open discussions with the various forum software producers and see which can offer you the best full featured product that can port over your asp based forums for the least pocket pinch.
Forum Software producer spotted!
C.
Originally by: Tarminic Your continued whining is somewhat diminished by your continued willingness to give your money to CCP.
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SSgt Sniper
Gallente MAIDS
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Posted - 2008.08.25 15:25:00 -
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They could chat with Bungie, after much struggle the Bungie crew finally got thier forums whipped into something decent.
Then again they have the entire computing power of Redmond Washington (and most of the bandwidth) making it work. So that might not work. ------- CEO of Maids. No I didn't pick the name. I've grown rather fond of it though.
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Silvia t'Nias
Paramilitary Skanks
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Posted - 2008.08.25 16:17:00 -
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Originally by: Stormwind Bloodfeather Currently the search function of the forums leaves so much to be desired...
Yeah, considering there isn't one, it does leave a lot to be desired...
www.eve-search.com is a provided by players, not CCP.
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Phaige NewFace
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Posted - 2008.08.25 16:46:00 -
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Edited by: Phaige NewFace on 25/08/2008 16:46:04
Originally by: Silvia t'Nias
Originally by: Stormwind Bloodfeather Currently the search function of the forums leaves so much to be desired...
Yeah, considering there isn't one, it does leave a lot to be desired...
www.eve-search.com is a provided by players, not CCP.
/me Points to the upper right corner of the forum.
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Asestorian
Sebiestor tribe
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Posted - 2008.08.25 17:01:00 -
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Well, CCP built their forums themselves, apparently. They are also apparently making a new one, but then again they've been saying that for a few years, so they probably aren't.
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Quote: EVE is unfair by design.
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