Sarkav Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 (edited) Since there is no way to make a post to a wide audience in the new "Server Group Forums", I am restarting this post here to ask for individual server forums. BW is always asking for feedback, so here is mine. The new group forums are not sufficient. We have been asking for individual server forums since the game started up, and that is what we still want. The group forums will quickly become a mess and I have no interest in what is happening on other servers. This is a no brainier to me. We all know that it is trivial to add these, and you can allow the people on the server to flag and report any abuse on the forums so they never have to be actively moderated. I have never played an MMO without official server forums and I have always used them pretty extensively. Edited January 20, 2012 by Sarkav Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flaky Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 I agree ^ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoxingHideout Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 Completely agree. Server forums help with the community so much. Makes finding a guild a billion times easier. I have no idea why they don't do this. Server forums don't even need to be monitored as much as the general forums. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mannic Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 Why is it so hard for Bioware to understand that we want: 1. One subforum for each server. I mean, it's really not that hard, is it? And it certainly doesn't require a feat of coding to set it up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chevex Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 (edited) Completely agree. I don't really understand BioWare's thinking on this issue. I can't imagine there is a technical barrier preventing them from giving us real server forums. I don't think it has anything to do with traffic or database space because all more boards would do is divide the current traffic and posts that are already happening on the site. I really really hate to be one of those conspiracy theorists but I get the impression that they are afraid that some individual server forums would get almost no traffic and it would reveal population information for individual servers. I think it is very silly to have to sift through a board where only a fifth or so of the threads actually pertain to me. I try to be really forgiving with BioWare but they seem to keep dancing around this issue. There are already working forum models out there such as the WoW forums. That's all we want. Just give us individual forums for each server. Why did they take the time to build in a server dropdown menu when you create a thread when it would have been so much simpler to just create individual boards. Edited January 20, 2012 by Chevex Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shimakaze Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 There's really no reason they can't give us individual server forums, especially when we have server group forums now. The amount of moderation needed to clean up abuse is the same for individual forums as server group forums. There would the same number of posts, except they would be spread across more subforums. It's just an extra few clicks for moderators to look through each of them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mannic Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 Completely agree. I don't really understand BioWare's thinking on this issue. I can't imagine there is a technical barrier preventing them from giving us real server forums. I don't think it has anything to do with traffic or database space because all more boards would do is divide the current traffic and posts that are already happening on the site. I really really hate to be one of those conspiracy theorists but I get the impression that they are afraid that some individual server forums would get almost no traffic and it would reveal population information for individual servers. I think it is very silly to have to sift through a board where only a fifth or so of the threads actually pertain to me. I try to be really forgiving with BioWare but they seem to keep dancing around this issue. There are already working forum models out there such as the WoW forums. That's all we want. Just give us individual forums for each server. Why did they take the time to build in a server dropdown menu when you create a thread when it would have been so much simpler to just create individual boards. Having 200+ subforums would be more difficult to moderate / control. And there's your answer, IMO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarkav Posted January 20, 2012 Author Share Posted January 20, 2012 Having 200+ subforums would be more difficult to moderate / control. And there's your answer, IMO. There is no reason to actively moderate those forums. We already have the ability to flag and report posts. As long as a moderator is available to respond to those requests, we can easily patrol our own forums. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZeroGravTrooper Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 Yeah. Server Group forum's kinda messy. :I Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mannic Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 There is no reason to actively moderate those forums. We already have the ability to flag and report posts. As long as a moderator is available to respond to those requests, we can easily patrol our own forums. Yeah, but we're talking about Bioware here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bregah Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 Agreed. I have a hope that NOT having a forum for each individual server AT THIS TIME is a sign that the servers that no longer ever get heavy will be merged soon (my server has not been heavy this year yet). I guess it's my fault for picking a server that was "only" heavy when I logged in the first time, but I kinda wanted to play instead of queue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mannic Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 (edited) Agreed. I have a hope that NOT having a forum for each individual server AT THIS TIME is a sign that the servers that no longer ever get heavy will be merged soon (my server has not been heavy this year yet). I guess it's my fault for picking a server that was "only" heavy when I logged in the first time, but I kinda wanted to play instead of queue. From what I've seen the last two nights, there are 40-50 NA servers that hit heavy during peak. (On Wednesday it was 58, last night it was 42.) That means about half the servers aren't getting beyond standard on week nights. We'll know a little bit more about the true "peak" this weekend because the pops always increase over the weekend. Maybe you're right, and they do intent to do some server merges soon. If they do, I wouldn't criticize them because most devs wait way too long before doing merges because they are afraid of the negative press. Waiting too long to merge servers actually costs the developer members in the long run, though. Edited January 20, 2012 by Mannic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meurtos Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 Start your own, Helm of Graush server has their own, user run and operated forums for communications, event planning and guild recruitment. Example: HelmofGraush.com - Its fairly simple to run and cheap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kirska Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 For RP servers, there are server specific forums on SWTOR-RP. Though I too would much rather have official server forums, I have always used them extensively as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcooke Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 Agree. Didnt notice this post and had just made one exactly the same. Such a simple request too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarkav Posted January 20, 2012 Author Share Posted January 20, 2012 Start your own, Helm of Graush server has their own, user run and operated forums for communications, event planning and guild recruitment. Example: HelmofGraush.com - Its fairly simple to run and cheap. Its an option, but honestly a poor one. You'll never have a wide audience like you would with an official forum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PjPablo Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 Totally agree. Helps with server community and events and will thin out General a bit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skaara Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 +1 for server forums. I tried visiting the "server type" forums but it was really just more trouble than it was worth. I think I'll just mark it up as another feature I won't be using. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sangreal Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 (edited) It's not fair to expect them to hire enough moderators to handle more forums. It's not like you're paying for this service, Next you will expect them to hire enough people to read individual CS tickets. Edited January 20, 2012 by sangreal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarkav Posted January 21, 2012 Author Share Posted January 21, 2012 Next you will expect them to hire enough people to read individual CS tickets. Don't get me started on that! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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