Warband Forum?

[Lord Shields]

Can there be a forum for the expansion seeing that the questions about the thing keep popping up throughout the boards? You can't really tell them to go post in one of the Expansion threads because most of them don't directly apply to their question. But, having a forum dedicated to the expansion (or even a Category with forums broken down for "Discussion", "Technical Support" etc would be helpful).

I know it's a long ways off from being released... but it is being released yes? Why wait? Get the forums set up now, let people ask their questions (move the suggestion thread over there) and get your moderators established. This way it wont be so sudden later and require dev's/mod's to move a ton of topics to a new forum.

 

[Seff]

Splitting forums is extremely risky in this business. MBX isn't doing too well - despite it being the modding station for M&B, this is still the place where things get done.

 

[Lord Shields]

Splitting forums is extremely risky in this business. MBX isn't doing too well - despite it being the modding station for M&B, this is still the place where things get done.

It's not splitting... you can't keep the two together because they will have different problems. A crashing problem in Warband wont be a crashing problem with Native. Neither will a suggestion or comment. There needs to be a separation of the categories.

I'm wondering if you misunderstood the post... "forums" meant as in where you are posting now... not a new set of boards at a new url. Categories lead the "forums" as a title much as "Other" is for the forum named "The Realm of Calradia - Website & Community".

 

[Seff]

I suppose that might work - at least sub-forums.

 

[Llew2]

A new subforum perhaps.

 

[Archonsod]

Sure we already answered this

1. We don't know enough about Warband to know what forums we'd need. Maybe we just need a single multiplayer board. Maybe it will need it's own set of boards. Maybe it won't need any boards. Once we know more about the expansion, we'll know how many/what boards we need

2. Until it's released I can't see what questions could be asked that would justify being in a warband specific board.

 

[Lost-Lamb]

2. Until it's released I can't see what questions could be asked that would justify being in a warband specific board.

Not to mention ones that the most appropriate answer wouldn't be a sound beating with heavy blunt objects.

 

[Lord Shields]

Sure we already answered this

1. We don't know enough about Warband to know what forums we'd need. Maybe we just need a single multiplayer board. Maybe it will need it's own set of boards. Maybe it won't need any boards. Once we know more about the expansion, we'll know how many/what boards we need

2. Until it's released I can't see what questions could be asked that would justify being in a warband specific board.

1. I can't see how someone (I'm not saying you specifically but Taleworlds as a whole) doesn't know enough about the Expansion they have coming out. I can see how they might not want to release too much information yet, or having not completed it, may not want to release information for fear of it changing... but this is the Taleworlds forums. Someone associated with the expansion should know something.

1a. You wouldn't necessarily need to know anything about the expansion to know what to expect. As I stated above... you'll need at the very least a Discussion forum, and Technical support forum. We can forsee that much.

2. As mentioned above... you know people want to talk about it. Why not give them ONE place to do that? You know they'll want to know what's in it and for the post part it's "sorry we can't tell you/don't know". But at least all of the threads could go to one place and not be in every forum here. Later on, if an answer pops up the thread can easily be revisited.

Waiting until it comes will be a bigger problem I can already tell. I've been on a lot of gaming sites (developer sites, modding sites, etc) that when they add on to it with an expansion or some other product... they get chaotic if there's no pre-planning. The sites that featured an advanced breakdown of forums for the impending add-on always did better than their counterparts and they even brought about a more inquisitive community where people got more involved (or at least felt like they were). People want to think that they helped shape the add-on... even if they did nothing to it at all. Giving them an area to voice their concerns, suggestions, etc while not cluttering the other forums is helpful.

 

[Archonsod]

1. I can't see how someone (I'm not saying you specifically but Taleworlds as a whole) doesn't know enough about the Expansion they have coming out.

I'm sure they do, but they aren't talking.

1a. You wouldn't necessarily need to know anything about the expansion to know what to expect. As I stated above... you'll need at the very least a Discussion forum, and Technical support forum. We can forsee that much.

It's not going to be sufficiently different to need it's own tech support forum, and unless it significantly changes single player I can't see any reason why it can't be covered with the two discussion boards for the main game. Even then, multiplayer is likely to be the main draw and that could end up being a general warband discussion board.

2. As mentioned above... you know people want to talk about it. Why not give them ONE place to do that?

Why is Warband not already covered by the Town Square and Apprentice Guilds?

Waiting until it comes will be a bigger problem I can already tell.

I don't see the problem with people discussing it in the main boards.

 

[Llew2]

Someone associated with the expansion should know something.

They're called Devs. They're busy making the game so that YOU can play it.

I'm sure they'll tell you all you need to know.

 

[DukeBonar]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't administrator job to create a subforum instead of dev? Or are you waiting instruction from Amargan?

 

[Archonsod]

1. We don't know enough about Warband to know what forums we'd need.

 

[Lord Shields]

1. We don't know enough about Warband to know what forums we'd need.

[quote author=Lord Shields]
1a. You wouldn't necessarily need to know anything about the expansion to know what to expect. As I stated above... you'll need at the very least a Discussion forum, and Technical support forum. We can forsee that much.[/quote]

 

[Archonsod]

It's not going to be sufficiently different to need it's own tech support forum, and unless it significantly changes single player I can't see any reason why it can't be covered with the two discussion boards for the main game. Even then, multiplayer is likely to be the main draw and that could end up being a general warband discussion board.

 

[Mabons]

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[Ruthven]

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[Lord Shields]

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It's not going to be sufficiently different to need it's own tech support forum, and unless it significantly changes single player I can't see any reason why it can't be covered with the two discussion boards for the main game. Even then, multiplayer is likely to be the main draw and that could end up being a general warband discussion board.

I guess the point isn't coming across... or you guys just don't care. But the fact is when you release something new you need support for it. I'll give you approximately a week before this idea is implemented by default after the release of Warband when every other post is specific to the new expansion, and then threads start popping up for the old game and people get confused.

Every other game I have EVER played that had an expansion added, ALWAYS had a separate sub created for it (for general discussions and support... sometimes even a lot more for mods, skins, maps, etc). I don't want to see this forum get so stuck in its ways that it becomes a jumbled mess when the expansion is released.

My question to the nay sayers... without quoting what's been said so far...

How/why would adding a new sub for support or at the very least a discussion forum for the expansion hurt?

As more and more content emerges, there will be a need to discuss it. At the same time, unless this website plans on dropping all support for the Native game, then you'll need the separation. Even if Warband will be similar which is speculation at this point (some mods have even stopped production in anticipation for it to be vastly different), it'll still be different than Native.

 

[Archonsod]

I guess the point isn't coming across... or you guys just don't care. But the fact is when you release something new you need support for it. I'll give you approximately a week before this idea is implemented by default after the release of Warband when every other post is specific to the new expansion, and then threads start popping up for the old game and people get confused.

Anything which prevents Warband from working will also stop M&B from working. This is an expansion, not a rewrite of the entire game from the ground up. Anything related to the content would be a bug, and should be on the bug board in the first place.

As more and more content emerges, there will be a need to discuss it.

Which you could do in the general discussion board or the Apprentice Guild, the two boards designated for discussion, funnily enough. Given that the new content (which I would expect to be the main gist of discussion) would only make sense in terms of Warband, I think most people would be capable of distinguishing between the two. Otherwise, I don't think they should be allowed a computer, or indeed to be let out unsupervised.

 

[The Red Baron]

The sub-forum would have to come out before the expansion, but it doesn't need to be right now.  We've still got a while before warband.  I can see the amount of trouble that would be induced by realsing warband without a forum.  a bunch of recruit threads not stating whther their using warband or not and a bunch of wasted replies asking them

 

[Tintin]

What is warband?